Protect the Flame
It’s these fields of deepened connection — of radical shared presence — that can support the healing and can function as the soil and seed for a new civilization to emerge.
Act: Inspiration featured
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 85 Seth Godin
Seth Godin is an entrepreneur, best-selling author, and speaker. He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?
The Year in Which I Grow Our Food: An Introduction
Last year, when things really got dodgy and this year looked to be the start of things becoming terrible for the near future, I bit the bullet. I stayed home to raise the food we would eat.
Losing altitude
In today’s world a small elite takes multiple trips a year, turning vast energy resources into pollution, in journeys that don’t have a lot of value, even to themselves.
The Power Podcast Episode 1: Introduction to Power
If we want to address this problem and reduce the chances of a chaotic collapse of society, we will have to confront our overuse and abuse of power.
Democracy Rising 26: Middle Schoolers as Deliberative Civic Actors
In addition to fostering communication and thinking skills, deliberation can lead to changes in how young people engage as learners and citizens.
“We’ll Meet Them Out in the Fields” — Challenging the Pipelines to Nowhere
The pipeline struggle has brought together communities that rarely find common cause and can often be adversaries.
Boys and Oil with Taylor Brorby (Bonus episode of Crazy Town)
Taylor Brorby has written one hell of a memoir. It covers many critical topics that come up in Crazy Town, from fracking to civil disobedience to that most inept of policies: aiming for infinite economic growth on a finite planet.
We Are the Middle of Forever: Excerpt
Kinship is a certain type of relationship that we all have with each other. No matter what society you live in, there’s going to be some degree of kinship.
Meet The Farmer-Bakers Proving Their Skills
Here in their on-farm bakery, between batches of bread, Sébastien and Fabienne share their views on life as farmer-bakers.
Solar power surges in Spain
Given that sky-high fossil fuel prices are here to stay, and the revived political urgency of bolstering domestic energy generation, solar generation will surge in the coming years – especially in Europe.
Havana: Its low-tech internet, its urban cultures, its informal networks
In a world where the digital footprint seems to be increasing every day (it will have tripled in 15 years according to the French GreenIT), we were looking forward to this stopover to study what is called “the low-tech Internet”.
