Keys to Building Human Bridges to the Past
Human technologies have continued to evolve exponentially since the end of the Paleolithic: today we are using them to learn more about the past.
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‘Land Back’ at the Center of Debates Over How to Preserve the Biosphere
Gathering in the last week of August in the Black Hills of South Dakota, or Hé Sapa in Lakota, speakers and organizers of the 12th convening of the World Wilderness Congress say the extinction crisis is intrinsically tied to both the dispossession of Indigenous peoples and the rising heat generated by the burning of fossil fuels.
The Joy of Fulfillment
In our own ways we embody the past and determine the future, having an incredible heritage as well as an obligation to seek our greatest joy of fulfillment through action with other humans and nonhuman nature in pursuit of life fulfillment for all.
Utilities rely on dirty ‘peaker’ plants when power demand surges, but there are alternatives
My research focuses on the economic and environmental costs and benefits of producing electricity. Here’s how the clean energy transition is changing the role of peaker plants and some other options for keeping the lights on during peak demand periods.
In Defense of the Herring People
The herring do not have voices. That’s why people like Khasheechtlaa Louise Brady and the Herring Protectors must speak for them.
Material: The Art of Handcrafting Beautiful Objects in a Digital Age
This book is a fluid path from an idea, along a stream bed whose variations, detours and eddies are unknown until the water that flows into it finds itself moved.
Can non-natives play nice with natives?
Landscapes and gardens are not an argument to be won but a set of spaces that can stir the senses and spark a larger conversation.
“Post Growth”—Why and How?
We want positive growth, which first requires an end to global warming and attention to other on-coming ecological crises.
New consciousness: the brass ring
From a society-wide perspective, a new consciousness a involves major cultural change and a reorientation of what society values and prizes most highly.
Letter from the Farm | Wild Geese and Tamed Farming – is it All for the Birds?
The farm shop taking the lead on Jan Gonne’s farm could indeed be his lucky punch – if island tourism and the currently only alternative to the supermarket stay profitable.
Where Can We Live?
In the West, we would do well to consider places like Brazil in developing a strategy to start down the path to ending homelessness here and we would do well to consider the power of the 8 to 11 million unhoused people who know what they need and are finally beginning to organize for their future.
Money is a Social Agreement—Let’s Start Treating It That Way
Only when we leave cartoonish barter villages to the world of fiction and embrace money as a social agreement will we truly make money work for us.
