The Past Can’t Tell You the Future
Whatever climate emerges over the coming decades and centuries, it will bear little relation to our past. If we are to survive, the same must be true of us.
Editor’s picks
Farm like an Ecosystem
From my vantage point — which is sitting in the chicken yard, eating just-harvested mulberries, my fingers all blue — farming within an ecosystem can be joyful and meaningful, life-affirming. It should be an integral part of the way we feed the world and revitalize our degraded land.
What does it really mean to be resilient?
Because without water, there is no life. And at those stakes, you always want a back-up plan.
Millan Millan and the Mystery of the Missing Mediterranean Storms
Welcome to the story of Millan Millan and the Mystery of the Missing Mediterranean Storms, where we follow the over fifty year-long career of noted Mediterranean meteorologist Millan M. Millan, profoundly expanding our view of climate change along the way.
Growing food is work!
Growing food is just like every other exercise – no one learns to rock climb, knit, box, embroider, run, dance, make art, build things, etc… without a LOT of time being less productive than they’d like to be to get the skill set.
Archaeology Is Flipping the Script on What We Know About Ancient Mesoamerica
Recent archaeology emerging from ancient Mesoamerica is flipping the script of public understanding about the people and institutions that inhabited this world: the evidence tells us that cooperative and pluralistic government was at least as common as and more resilient than despotic states.
A Blind Look at the Environment, Inside and Out
If we are to navigate unfolding environmental crises, we will need to draw on all our available knowledge and widen our relationships to find our way.
To Counter AI Risk, We Must Develop an Integrated Intelligence
The recent explosion in the stunning power of artificial intelligence is likely to transform virtually every domain of human life in the near future, with effects that no-one can yet predict.
Polycrisis, Unraveling, Simplification, or Collapse: Coming Soon to a Planet Near You?
A new report seeks to build a coherent narrative about the roots of the ‘polycrisis,’ the signs of its arrival and evolution, and why we should be thinking differently about the future.
In defense of the forest: A group of activists organizes direct action against logging in California
Learning from, and collaborating with, Indigenous peoples, forest defenders, trees, and the multitudes that compose a forest might be essential to finding ways forward.
A Portable Hospitality
Hospitality isn’t charity. It is belonging. Only those who belong with soil, people, animals, plants and fungi are ever truly at home.
My speech at Extinction Rebellion’s ‘The Big One’
So let’s make our story one that nurtures and kindles a deep deep longing for the future, whether we have a time machine or not.
