Welcoming Relatives Home: Bringing Back the Bighorn
Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation in Washington State are restoring the lands and species of their traditional ecological community.
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Prepared Learning: What Are Humans Hard-Wired for at Birth?
Do living beings learn and pass on to future generations some behaviors or predispositions more easily than others––and if so, how? So-called prepared learning is a question psychologists and other scientists have studied for decades, developing a series of new hypotheses about learning and experiments to test them.
Building the democratic local economy
The magazine Stir to Action, and the project that sits behind it, has been one of the most effective popularisers in the UK of the idea of community economics and community wealth building.
How to save Europe’s farmers
I think the only way out of this predicament is to place farming and food production at the center and heart of the debate about the future of society – few people can dispute that food is the most essential production there is.
Fear or optimism: ‘getting real’ about climate needs both
It is why no matter what reality throws at it (record land & sea temperatures, delaying emission reduction targets, expanding oil exploration), the mainstream climate change narrative continues to defy gravity, sheared as it is of reckoning and loss. Fairytales impart more truth about existence.
Co-creating with Nature
Rather than tracking our own important engagements, the calendar charts the plans of twenty familiar friends with whom we share space every day, but often forget have busy lives themselves.
HEATED: Challenging objectivity in climate journalism
Presenting an issue like climate change as a debate with two sides, as is still somewhat common, is often justified under the banner of objectivity, but it’s only one of many dissonant standards that environmental reporters are held to, argues podcast guest Emily Atkin.
Has the White House Gone Green?
A mix of celebration and scrutiny has followed Biden’s announcement of a pause on LNG export approvals. Whether this dramatic policy shift was spurred more by dogged activism, desperate vote-seeking, saturated markets and pissed off gas execs, or simply by resource depletion, it is a win for frontline communities and the environmental justice movement.
Celebration of the Commons
And this is true of all common goods. It is only the crazy logic of a capitalist market that wrenches any benefit out of waste. Short-term gain is never a real gain.
John Robb: “Networked Tribalism, AI, and Asteroids”
On this episode, Nate is joined by author and technology analyst John Robb to discuss how geopolitics, information warfare, and technology are shaping how we understand the world and interact with each other.
Watching Work
All work involves, to some degree, both body and mind. This plays a major role in the degree to which AI can or cannot effectively replace human labour. Yet even if AI can not succeed in taking away your job, it might succeed in taking away a big chunk of your paycheque.
Sperm Whales Have Culture Too: Strong Evidence That Clans, Culture, and Dialects Are Not Unique to Humans
The facts about sperm whales rival in some ways the extreme capacities and behaviors that until recently we thought were uniquely human.
