No, AI Won’t Outsmart Our Climate Calamity
Artificial intelligence devours vast energy while clouding the human wisdom that might save us.
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“Eurowhiteness”: Europe’s Civilisational Turn
From migration to foreign policy, the once outward-looking EU has turned defensive. External influences are framed as civilisational threats not only by far-right politicians but also by pro-European voices.
The Climate Beneath Our Feet
What happened to the two-legged approach to climate? The land leg proved “incommodious,” as Millan puts, so the two were split. The CO2 leg, championed by the IPCC, strode into the climate spotlight to save humanity, while the land-change leg, housed under the IGBP, remained behind for further research.
Why social coops offer potential transformation of care and more
Social coops offer a wholly new model of social care. They are community-led, multi-stakeholder, democratically governed, and highly relational. Community benefit, not maximum profit, is prioritized to provide high-quality care.
The Indic Mind: An Approach to the Metacrisis
On this Reality Roundtable, Nate is joined by Mohit Trivedi, Abhishek Thakore, and Kejal Savla, three NGO leaders in India active in driving social and cultural change using the perspective of the Indic Mind.
A new and silent land grab is underway – we must stop it
Securing land and preventing land grabbing must go hand-in-hand with inclusive, redistributive forms of economic development.
The Indigenous Growers Reviving Hemp’s Deep Roots
From the banks of Wounded Knee Creek to the White Earth reservation, this spring, more seeds will be planted for the New Green Revolution. Bringing life back to the soil is work, but these farmers are doing it. Fields of dreams, indeed.
The race to end fossil fuel production
Given all this Green rhetoric and crude (oil) action, it’s hard to find examples around the world where people are actually doing something to end fossil fuel production.
Yet more boondoggles: Extracting carbon dioxide from the air, mining asteroids
Many of the proposed solutions to climate change and resource depletion are really just boondoggles that benefit a few insiders
Eating at the Old Growth Table
At the Old Growth table, we honor the ingredients as the wisdom keepers they are. And we humbly nod to the Ancestors who have kept our birthrights and lifeways intact.
Does US Climate Policy Have a Herring Problem? (Part 3)
The ultimate question SCOTUS must answer is this:
Is there ever a time when the health of democracy trumps judicial philosophies and precedents? If not now, when?
Polycrisis Four Square
There’s a game you might remember from childhood called Four Square. Four kids stand in a 2×2 grid with one kid yelling out rules on how they can hit the ball—with their hands, feet, only while grunting, etc. If you fail to pass on the ball, you’re out and some other kid takes your spot.
