Scented dangers: Who regulates scented products?
Most of us think very little about the artificial scents that buffet us every day. They are often filled with hazardous substances and only very lightly regulated
Francis Weller — The Lost Art of Grieving: Grief as Ritual, Resistance, and Resilience
In this conversation, Nate is joined by psychotherapist Francis Weller to discuss the essential human need for grief.
Solandium 2063: Playing for Change
I believe that art and other forms of creative expression, including pop culture, can serve as catalysts for social change. Often artists are among the first to sense changes in societal currents and speculate about the future, and we have the imagination to find creative ways to communicate those topics to broad audiences.
What if we could uncancel the future?
We need something with a focus on action and possibility. We need a movement that shares stories of what’s possible, creating futures so exciting that people can’t help but want to make them happen.
Not more but better – part 4
In this last article in the series, I turn to what a resilient, sustainable food system could look like. I will first discuss the agronomic side of the system and then the socio-economic part. In my view they are just two aspects of the same system.
Leading By Example
Rosemary Nenini is a busy woman. One of the founding members and manager of the Twala Tenebo Cultural Center, a collective owned and operated by a Maasai women’s group now comprised of 203 women, her life is completely dedicated to helping other Maasai women.
Living Like a Fungus
Like hyphae that act singly and in coordinated masses we must function individually and collectively as they do to activate the majority to protect democracy and the planet.
How Mesopotamia’s Urban and Industrial Revolution Created the Politics of Our Time
Giorgio Buccellati’s At the Origins of Politics takes readers to the early stages of a process that became the structure of modern life.
Butterflies declined by 22% in just 2 decades across the US – there are ways you can help save them
If the joy of seeing butterflies seems increasingly rare these days, it isn’t your imagination.
How to heat a home?
The most direct route to heat is also the least toxic, most reliable, most durable, and most sustainable within Vermont — and that’s heating with wood.
Snow, The Singularity, and Rocks in the River
In this Frankly, Nate discusses the human predicament in the context of ecological overshoot, energy dynamics, and the impact of a potential ‘singularity’ in artificial intelligence. He delves into the essence of humanity, advocating for a deeper understanding of our needs beyond material goods.
Finding Our Way Home – Part II: Hunting and Gathering
Though I am reforesting, I am also making a food forest, creating far less work for myself and more resiliency while the house, the gardens, the barns, the woods are becoming an integrated whole.
