Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The Great Unraveling of environmental and social systems calls into question the very basis of modernity. In this online event, Vanessa Andreotti and Dougald Hine held a rich and honest discussion of the implications of modernity’s decline, and how we – individually and collectively – can hospice what is dying and give care to what may emerge.
In the west of Ireland I find there has been less industrialisation of agriculture with many farming in a more traditional manner keeping small mixed holdings with off farm incomes – very often in construction where I meet them.
This online event on February 13, 2025 featuring Lesley Hughes (Macquarie University) and Doug Tallamy (University of Delaware) examines the disappearance of wild nature and explores how governments, scientists, activists, community groups, and individuals can address the crisis.
Sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein’s World-Systems Analysis is our instruction manual to colonization and exploitation. We explore how dominant countries rise and fall, the dance between capitalism and the state, and the unexpected truth about what real power looks like.
Enjoy this gallery of cartoons, graciously shared by Polyp and Andy Singer–two artists who are unafraid to unleash their wicked wit, creative talent, and good humor on the topics of capitalism, consumerism, and infantile fantasies of infinite economic growth.
This collection provides ideas (in the form of books, journals, podcasts, and other sources), organizations, and even entertaining media that can help you understand the economics of sustainability, the degrowth movement, and the transition away from capitalism and consumerism.
Program Director at Post Carbon Institute, Rob Dietz, hosts a participatory discussion session with Anitra Nelson, degrowth scholar and activist and author of many books about degrowth and the systemic changes needed to make the shift to a post-capitalist, post-consumerist economy.
Environmental journalist Rachel Donald hosts a conversation with Jason Hickel, internationally known degrowth researcher and advocate, and Nia Evans and Cierra Peters of the Boston Ujima Project, which focuses on creating a community-controlled economy.
Gather around the campfire for a ghost story about the most destructive monster in history: civilization. Through the book “Against His-Story, Against Leviathan,” we’ll explore how authoritarianism first took root in the world’s earliest cities—and how those ancient systems still shape modernity.
In the spring of 1992, twenty-four-year-old Christopher McCandless left society behind, hitchhiking 3,000 miles into the Alaskan wilderness. We’ll explore McCandless’s legacy, the conflict between self and society, community and solitude, and the concept of “wilderness.”
This live online event features Lilliana Mason, Associate Professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University and author of Radical American Partisanship, and Cecilie Surasky, Director of Communications & Narrative at the Othering & Belonging Institute. Post Carbon Institute’s Asher Miller will join Lilliana and Cecilie for an expansive conversation on the drivers of polarization and othering, and methods for fostering belonging and mutuality.
This live online discussion event features Trisha Dehrone, a PhD candidate and NSF Fellow at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst. Trisha has designed and analyzed interventions that bridge group differences in divided societies and has evaluated interventions in the U.S., Rwanda, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
