Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The biggest value of the native farm breeds is about relationship between humans, the agroecosystem, the culture and the local natural world that we are part of. They also root us in history; our ancestors speak to us through them. We should listen.
A short film and narratives project “Stories for Life” seeks to bring about the shift in culture that humanity needs to survive.
What ancient farmers can really teach us about adapting to climate change – and how political power influences success or failure.
Republicans and Democrats are once again playing a game of political chicken over government funding. Who will blink first?
A small farm future out of practical necessity, then, but also one evincing positive cultural possibilities. But practical necessity is the critical driver.
Bad River—a new documentary premiering in early March—is entirely unambiguous fact, not dramatized at all; if anything, some of its power comes from underplaying the tragedy it describes, that of an indigenous community forced to defend its remaining chunk of land from a heedless and rapacious oil company.
On this episode, astrophysicist Sandra Faber joins Nate for a wideview cosmological conversation on the development of the known-universe and the moral implications for humanity’s role within it.
This is what is right. This is how to live without destroying life. This is the only ecologically sane way to be human. Living within the limits of my place is how I do not kill myself.
Will we finally pick up a shovel and create conditions on our properties, neighborhoods, towns, and villages so that not a drop of rainwater is lost without use? It is a vibrant and enthusiastic call; we can only seriously consider the question of rainwater retention or recovery.
Let’s begin the healing, by first falling out of love with (abusive) modernity, and thinking about what matters most in life. Hint: don’t stop at humans, as that spells a dead end for humans as well.
Today is one of those days when I feel sucker-punched; more melancholy than angry, a little despairing at the contemptible cowardice of the rich and powerful men who run our banks and hence our lives. But they were frightened by Greta et al before they were frightened by Jim Jordan et al, so back to work.
Architects and everyday people are teaching each other to build spaces for community and climate resilience using local, natural materials.
