Messy business: Polluted ‘biosolids’ derail recycling of human waste
Recycling always sounds like a good idea unless what you are recycling has become dangerously toxic.
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The world made by hand
In the cellar of my parent’s house sit a series of tools that have served my father and grandfather and great-grandfather, for they were created before the throwaway world was conceived. … They were made for a nation of craftsmen, of people who bore in themselves the power that all humans once had, to reshape wood and hide and stone into a human landscape.
The Steady State Economy Act: Halfway to the Hill?
Promulgating the steady state economy via federal legislation has long been a primary goal at CASSE. However, even a primary goal isn’t necessarily pursued from the get-go.
Nepal’s Self-Managing Forests and the Duck that Dares to Love
As carbon credits try to answer the impossible question of how to value nature, we find ourselves back at the beginning, asking what our forests need to continue to protect us. But nature has always been there, waiting to uncover the answers to our deepest questions.
The concentrated ills of concentrated agribusiness
In his highly readable book, Frerick describes the businesses of barons who dominate seven sectors of the US food industry. In the process he illuminates much in recent American history and goes a long way towards diagnosing environmental ills, socio-economic ills, and the ill health of so many food consumers.
Climate, Kincentric Rewilding, and The Color of Clouds
One day, when a new world rises from the ashes of this chemically-infused and churned and oil-burned wasteland, the basement of history, we may all work together to rebuild, to try again, and, most importantly, to love and to have better memories.
Vanessa Andreotti: “Hospicing Modernity and Rehabilitating Humanity”
In this episode, Nate is joined by educator and indigenous researcher Vanessa Andreotti to discuss what she calls “hospicing modernity” in order to move beyond the world we’ve come to know and the failed promises that “modernity” has made to our current culture.
Watching Population Bomb
As population bombs, perhaps there’s no explosion, but a whimper of modernity as the larger living world finds its voice again, accented by human song.
Honoring Multiple Truths: An Integrative Pathway to Peace in Israel/Palestine
A just resolution to the Israel/Palestine conflict requires acknowledging and honoring truths that are seemingly contradictory. Examples from other domains show how this can be accomplished and offer a potential pathway to an enduring, long-term peace.
From the law of the minimum to soil health
A more than hundred year old focus on easily available nutrients has led farming astray. Instead, nutrient availability is to a large extent an emergent property of healthy soils.
How extreme weather will affect the insurance and energy sectors
Energy systems are being pushed to the brink by wind storms and heatwaves, compounded by gas shortages and price rises caused by the war in Ukraine.
Cheese is Good to Think With
There’s a bridge between people’s experiences with these more-than-human “living cultures” and the work of regrowing our ways of being human together. They offer images that reflect, backwards and forwards, helping us give words to the work that is called for.
