Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Insurers should, through their disclosure and lobbying power, play a key role in achieving a safer and more resilient world. Through disclosure, they can share their vast knowledge about the financial risks of a climate changed world. Through lobbying, they can advocate for a suite of laws and policies that make the world more insurable in the face of the ever-mounting risks.
So yeah, let us rewild half (or I’d say almost all) the Earth, with people integrated into ecologically functional landscapes. There is much to be anxious about in the future, but I hope the prospect of people becoming Indigenous to a place again motivates us to work on this more gracious possibility.
We have a golden opportunity for finding multiple functions for land: generating clean energy while restoring biodiversity at the same time.
Spring is making its way here in Mni Sota Makoce (the Land of Cloudy Waters), and Waziya (Old Man Winter) is finally heading north. It is during this transitional time we can gather the sweet sap that the maples so willingly give up.
I’ve been digesting tariff chat for the past few days, like everyone is, and trying to make sense of the political economy of it. ‘Make sense’ as in trying to piece together the MAGA mindset and then think it through, beyond the economics of it.
A few months ago, we invited viewers to share the projects, initiatives, and lifestyle changes they’ve embraced after becoming aware of the global challenges facing humanity. In this special compilation episode, we’re featuring just a few of the many inspiring videos that were submitted.
We must both defend existing political institutions, saying hands off, and put our hands on the wheel to build new institutions that truly address the planetary crisis.
The end of Big Solutions is perhaps the end of an illusion. But it is hardly the end of our opportunities to make a difference.
Since you know your community best, you are in the best position to become a local environmental leader.
A realistic action goal for a community trying to survive tariffs is this: How can we move our economy more quickly toward the 90% self-reliance that’s economic, practical, and already happening?
In an era of planetary crisis and a time when universities are increasingly under attack, an underlying question that has gradually moved to the center of attention is this: what is the role of universities in society, and what should their role be going forward?
I walk through some of the different solutions that can help address the polycrisis and post-polycrisis period and also imagine what an ecocentric civilization of the future could look like, if we actually work toward that.
