Instituting liberty: Contested, changing, conflicted definitions
By Robert Jensen, Resilience.org
The definition of freedom and liberty is always contested (at any given moment, people within a society disagree); always changing (over time, societies’ understandings will shift); and always conflicted (we struggle because there are no simple policies to maximize liberty).
Restless and Relentless Minds: Thinking as a “Species out of Context”
By Robert Jensen, Resilience.org
I have no comprehensive proposal for how we can get to “fewer and less,” nor does anyone else. The scale and scope of the challenge is unprecedented, and beyond the reach of conventional policy proposals. But we can enhance our chances of success by cultivating restless and relentless minds.
Podcast from the Prairie: The Restless and Relentless Mind of Wes Jackson
By Wes Jackson, Robert Jensen, Podcast from the Prairie
In this final episode of the first season of “Podcast from the Prairie,” Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen reverse roles. Jackson asks the questions about Jensen’s new book, The Restless and Relentless Mind of Wes Jackson: Searching for Sustainability, which summarizes key ideas from Jackson’s work over the past half-century.
Podcast from the Prairie: “Hogs Are Up: Stories of the Land, with Digressions”
By Wes Jackson, Robert Jensen, Podcast from the Prairie
In this penultimate episode of the first season of “Podcast from the Prairie,” Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen discuss Jackson’s new book, Hogs Are Up: Stories of the Land, with Digressions.
“A Simple Boy from the Prairie”
By Robert Jensen, Resilience.org
Let’s start with what’s fairly clear: There is no hope that a population of eight billion people with the current level of aggregate consumption today can continue indefinitely.
Podcast from the Prairie: “The Portrait of an Artist as an Old Man”
By Robert Jensen, Wes Jackson, Podcast from the Prairie
In this episode of “Podcast from the Prairie,” Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen discuss the creativity of both humans and the larger living world.
From Pornography to Agriculture: Challenging Hierarchy
By Robert Jensen, MerionWest
Whatever the future of this broken world, today we can attend to the work of repair and restoration. That does not require hope in what is to come but, rather, a belief in our ability to manage our lives without hierarchy and a faith in each other’s capacity for mutuality.
Podcast from the Prarie: Methodism in my madness
By Robert Jensen, Wes Jackson, Podcast from the Prairie
In this episode of “Podcast from the Prairie,” Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen discuss the role of religion, both in Jackson’s life and in our human future.