Recipes for car dependency
A car-dependent society isn’t built overnight. It takes concerted effort by multiple levels of government and industry to make private cars the go-to, all-but-obligatory choice for everyday personal transportation.
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What Sound Can Tell Us About Our Changing World
As new technologies supercharge the field of bioacoustics, researchers can better listen to environmental changes — and use the information to guide conservation efforts.
Crazy Town: Episode 71. How Ecomodernists Hijacked the Environmental Movement: Technotopian Bullshit and a Raging Case of God Complex
Meet Stewart Brand and his band of merry dematerialists, the Silicon Valley salesmen who undermined environmentalism with planet-saving fantasies that reek of technofetishism. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.
An epic global study of moss reveals it is far more vital to Earth’s ecosystems than we knew
New global research on soil mosses published today in Nature Geoscience reveals they play critical roles in sustaining life on our planet.
20 Theses for Liberation
Below, we propose some basic insights, claims, and commitments that all seekers of new societal relations might choose to further develop and refine. The 20 theses are not ours per se, but come from many movements over years, decades, and even centuries.
Coral Reefs Are in Crisis. Could a Controversial Idea Help?
To preserve habitat for fish and benefits for humans, some scientists suggest we need to explore the need for assisted migration.
Not a Green Bone in Their White Bodies
By hijacking the message of ecological renewal and using it to persecute the powerless, ecofascists, could, at a minimum, make it far more difficult for this country to act boldly in the future when it comes to the climate crisis and environmental justice.
Climate Action Epistemology Part 6: Developing an Intellectually and Politically Active Culture
It’s essential to understand that knowledge is power, to have a solid analytical framework with the right guiding questions, and to work with others to share the significant costs involved in becoming deeply informed.
Sailing on Planet Titanic
As I sit down to write this, April 15, 2023, it is 111 years to the day since the RMS Titanic sank beneath the waves of the North Atlantic.
Dangers from future technologies? It’s the current ones that are killing us
It is fashionable to be pessimistic about new and emerging technologies. Less fashionable is dealing with the existing technologies that are already killing us and the biosphere.
Atlanta’s “Cop City” and the Struggle for Climate Justice
For the past two years, a broad, loose coalition comprising neighborhood associations, schools, environmental groups, justice activists, civic leaders, and forest defenders has been pushing back hard against what they call “Cop City”.
Review: Nothing but the Rain by Naomi Salman
Nothing but the Rain succeeds as a frightening but ultimately uplifting tale of heroism and survival, and a key ingredient in its success is the air of mystery it sustains.
