Algeria: Decolonizing the Mind, Liberating Water, Inventing the Future
Liberate water, liberate the land, liberate the mind — this is the triple revolution awaiting Algeria.
Cultivating Moral Agency to Transform Self and Society
Changing how we live and transforming our societies can feel impossible, but that shouldn’t be surprising when the ethical beliefs that shape us are so rarely subject to scrutiny or discussion. What if we build a social movement that pulls growing numbers of people out of those habits of passivity and helps us cultivate our moral agency?
By Disaster or Design: A Post-Growth World is Coming
The way we do business and the way we live our lives is ingrained in a growth at all costs mindset. But that “cost” is the very systems that keep us alive. Finance can follow this new path. We believe it must.
The Cherry Tree Dilemma: Mindfulness, Complexity and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)
Everywhere, it’s necessary to pay attention, to get to know the neighborhood and its denizens, the non-human citizens whose families probably have been living there longer than you maybe have been alive. To learn the lay of the land—literally.
Energy transition: the end of an idea
Pretty much the last nail in the coffin for the idea that there’s going to be a smooth transition out of fossil fuels and into renewables that can rescue the existing high-energy global economy in anything like its present form comes courtesy of Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and his 2024 book More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy.
What I’ve Learned from Chickens
Chickens are smart, emotional animals. They can decimate local insect populations, but they are resilient and courageous. They deserve our respect.
Maren Urner — The Neuroscience of Good Journalism: How Constructive Journalism Uses Information to Empower
Today, Nate is joined by neuroscientist and best-selling author, Maren Urner, to discuss the critical role of journalism in democracy, the importance of rebuilding trust in media, and how neuroscience can inform our understanding of media consumption.
A Decade of Progress Toward a Greener, Fairer, and More Resilient Future
But even in these polarized times, people are rising to the great environmental and moral challenges before us. In the pages of Resilience Matters, they show us how to build a greener, fairer future together.
Ishmael: Bonus Material
As long as we prioritize human well-being to the exclusion of the rest of the community of life, we make ourselves enemies of life.
From City to Sink: Urban Carbon Removal as Promise and Practice with Duncan McLaren
In this talk, Duncan will survey how cities are engaging with carbon removal – reviewing the realistic scope of possibilities such as carbon negative building materials, and carbon removal through urban waste management; and suggest ways in which urban carbon removal could be governed to contribute to goals of justice and sustainability.
Letter From The Farm | All In A Day’s Tree Planting
We’re back with Martino Newcombe in the West of Ireland, where he reflects on a winter’s day of planting a shelter belt of native tree species. Not on his farm, but on that of his neighbour, a retired farmer, with the help of another neighbour – echoing the traditional Irish practice of helping each other out that is known as “meitheal”.
Wild Swimming, Forest Bathing, and Immersing Oneself in Nature
Maybe the greatest antidote to the crises we face isn’t only policy change or protest—it’s reweaving our sense of self into the fabric of the natural world.
