Society

If collective survival is possible, there will be a lot of work ahead. We’ll be more effective in that work if we’re unburdened by hate and recrimination, and are instead rooted in gratitude for life, nature, and community.

It seemed an odd request for a poetry magazine. What stuck with me most, though, was the very notion of a “nature poem.” What is such a thing? How in this age of collapse and dislocation do we define it?

Richard’s clarity and kindness went right into my heart. My activist was ignited again, not to stop the system but to help my community and others adapt. With kindness.

Richard Heinberg was a great sentinel, but he was never shrill. He had the intellectual and moral courage, underlain by common sense, to take radical stances. Anything but a technocrat, he always championed mutual aid and relocalization, never abandoning humanity. His death is a terrible loss.

The phenomenon of extreme wealth and its worship is a symptom of endemic violence.

What would an ecofeminist world include, and what would it leave behind? A classroom exercise explores the values and challenges of imagining systemic change.