Farm like an ecosystem Part III: Wild farming
Seeing the farm as part of the entire ecosystem, not something separate from it, can ensure that a healthy balanced biodiversity remains.
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Politics (Sometimes it is necessary to wander)
We have forgotten that every politics is an ethos. We have bought the lie that all things are public or private.
Hunt for the Shadow Wolf: Excerpt
A better account of what happened in Britain to the wolf might therefore constitute a beginning of sorts for any movement that sought their return. So, shall we commence?
The Great Archaeological Discovery of Our Time
If we’re going to enjoy the benefits of history, behavior in the contemporary West should not be isolated or considered distinct from the rest.
Dweller-managed architecture as the basis of democratic and ecological urbanism
According to the underlying form of social organization, architecture can promote individualist lifestyles, servitude, submission, or it can encourage communal solidarity, freedom, and dignity.
A nail in the coffin? Not really.
Over the last decade, there has been a heated discussion about the possibility to sequester carbon in agriculture soils. I believe that nobody claims that it is impossible but there is huge disagreement about how much and for how long this can take place.
The Great Unwinding: The Failing Battle for Health and Healthcare in These All Too Disunited States
This thrusting of tens of millions of Americans out of the national healthcare system at a moment when healthcare outfits, pharmaceutical companies, and health insurance corporations are making record profits has been termed “the great unwinding.” And it couldn’t be more cruelly ironic.
Peak Oil, AI, and the Straw
In this Frankly, Nate shares his perspective on the new all-time high in oil production in the context of AI’s growing influence in the financial markets and technology space. While ‘all liquids’ just hit an all time high, the varying categories of what is considered oil obfuscates a long plateau that is starting to decline.
‘Pre-Polycrisis’ Hazard Mitigation
What is proposed here is that a planned and deliberate effort to minimise burdens on embattled future societies by strategically addressing some of the most severe hazards left by recent and contemporary societies might be both a responsibility and duty.
We Need Green Military Technology to Kill One Another Sustainably: Imagining the Ecomodernist Death Ray
Our political culture rolls the dice on climate change, with a strategy of doing (nearly) absolutely nothing, and ecomodernism provides the rhetorical inspiration for inaction.
What are the four waves of feminism? And what comes next?
To build vigorous varieties of feminism going forward, we might reframe the “waves”. We need to let emerging generations of feminists know they are not living in an isolated moment, with the onerous job of starting afresh. Rather, they have the momentum created by generations upon generations of women to build on.
Native Seed Network Takes Root in the Northeast
The network’s central focus is to build and strengthen connections among a diverse web of social actors, including government agencies, Tribal Nations, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, botanic gardens, farmers, private companies, citizen groups and academic institutions.
