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.
Editor’s picks
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.
Navigating the Polycrisis–Life in Turbulent Times
How can we explain the explosive emergence of global awareness of the polycrisis over the past year, 2022-2023? Three years ago, almost no one had heard of the polycrisis. What happened?
In praise of promiscuous cultures
Throughout the European part of the Mediterranean – an area stretching from Greece through Italy, France and Spain, the coltura promiscua or coltura mista (translated as “promiscuous agriculture”, polyculture or mixed farming) landscapes predominated in many regions.
Livelihood: a new and old idea
As an eco-cultural philosopher (and poet), I’m strongly inclined to believe modern humans have almost entirely lost the sense of the word which became our contemporary word, livelihood. Why?
Stories of permafrost
The narrative that permafrost is a material structure separate from earth systems served some purposes but has also led to catastrophe and injustice. It is time to center the voices of people living with permafrost, symmetrically embracing the plurality of perspectives.
A Year of War: An Energy Justice Take on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
Putin’s war has exposed the fact that nations that lack access to affordable energy and those that are most dependent on fossil fuels are vulnerable.
From nations to republics: front parlour or front porch?
After liberalism, then, I believe the task is to steer our societies towards a small farm civic republicanism of the front porch and not the front parlour variety. I don’t think that’s going to be easy.
