Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
What would it actually mean to live with less? Can we preserve the things we value most—health, human rights, cultural diversity, individual freedom—without preserving the system that created them?
How can we prepare for a disrupted future? The growing frequency and variety of global disruptions raise the question of how communities can prepare.
The world teeters on the brink of economic disaster due to energy shortages caused by war. Key oil-producing nations are unable and unwilling to increase output, though prices are high. The solutions being proposed—renewable energy technologies—are coming on line, but not fast enough. Sound familiar?
How a tiny town in Vermont turned a simple weekly gathering into the social glue holding a neighborhood together.
Cities cannot feed themselves, thus people who live in cities will be forever detached from the problems that come with extracting the resources they depend on and producing the food they eat.
Can community potlucks provide a solution to America’s loneliness epidemic?
In a catastrophe, the most important thing is social relations. Anything that builds resilient social relations is a step towards having agency in a catastrophe.
Honestly, it was very difficult to create a climate movement in Germany. We worked for five years with hardly any attention. Then the Paris summit happened, and we exploded.
We love our fish. We love our natural resources. We love our culture. And we’re not shy about showing it. That’s what Blue Creek means to us. That’s who we are.
Although rewilding is often thought of as keeping humans “away”, people must be integrated into much of the rewilding process, living alongside and allowing space for wildness.
Without Prop. 40 revenues, Californians could face hospital closures, job losses, increased food insecurity, and state budget cuts to public schools, yet tech billionaires are pouring millions into opposing the wealth tax.
What if collapse isn’t the end of the story but part of a larger cycle?
