Cities, Roads, and the Sixth Extinction Event
The ‘tipping point’ at which humanity became a majority-urban species finally occurred in 2008; this trend has continued (55% by 2018), and may be 70% by the middle of the 21st century.
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Dismantling Silos: Why Those Who Fight Cancer and Environmental Dangers Must Join Forces
My hope is that what I have shared here will convince others of the powerful opportunity we all have to rise up against prevailing messages intent on keeping us powerless, and to experience in the company of others our ability to effect change. May we all have strong hearts and loving companions for such a journey.
Building Movements for Food and Racial Justice Through Organic Farming
Every time I visit a farm, I have hope. Despite everything that’s going on, the fact that people are still producing so much food and thriving gives me hope.
The Reality of the Green Transition
Energy is meant to supply vitality, not threaten destruction. It is the flow of life through an ecosystem.
New Social Spaces
Maybe fighting to save the high street through the power of social enterprise and community business is the wrong fight. Maybe we should be fighting instead for ownership of these new places in the new high street?
Distilled Disintegration
If someone’s gut reaction is to dismiss talk of modernity’s demise as dismal doomerism, I wonder what bolsters their confidence in the opposite conclusion.
Leo Infrastructure
Only as visionaries will we get a realistic chance of narrowing the gap between the world we got and a world we would be happy to live in.
The Fellowship of the Ring: ‘Bend Not Break’ Version
In this Frankly, Nate recasts his favorite book series, the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien, with some speculative “archetypes” of our human world grouped by various timelines.
Integrating Indigenous Wisdom with Systems Change: The Insights of Dr. Melanie Goodchild
Melanie emphasizes the importance of engaging with the earth not as a resource but as a teacher, a source of healing and wisdom.
Can we evolve? Part 2.
By changing the reality on the ground, institutions and superstructures as well as cultures, we can create positive self-reinforcing feedback loops for change. Ignoring capitalism to death.
How a small church in a Vermont town addresses climate change
A couple years ago a project launched at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Brattleboro, Vt., aimed at making the whole church campus– church, education wing, and rectory– powered 110% by clean, renewable energy by 2030.
Nathan Schneider on Building Democratic Governance on the Internet
Schneider invites us to consider a daring idea, that “online spaces could be sites of creative, radical and democratic renaissance.”
