How Habitable Will Earth Be When We Search for Life Beyond Our Planet?
As we uncover the colors and complexity of life beyond our planet, may we also remember how incredibly fortunate we are to live in a world that already flourishes with life.
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Kreisler: Community-Driven Catalysts for Degrowth
By embedding degrowth principles in local, everyday practice, Kreisler associations offer a vision for urban provisioning beyond extraction and individualism and toward a communal, crisis-resilient future.
How to Feed the World and Save the Planet – A View from the Ground
We need people to be involved, consumers to take a stand. We need a global, cross-sectoral movement for localisation.
Never Stop Pushing: Radical social change through Skateboarding, Education, Community, and Perseverance in “Worst-case Scenarios”
While the practice of skateboarding may seem at first glance as completely arbitrary in the fields of existential ecological and social threats, in the example of Skateistan it has already demonstrably provided a foundation for community efforts supporting health, environmental education, and resilience in the midst of the extreme chaos of war, serving as a positive example of progressive social growth within chaotic conditions.
Biosphere Theatrics
In the case of biosphere replicas, how could any artificial environment possibly compete with the infinitely-superior and time-tested home we already enjoy on the planet to which we are both adapted and permanently grounded?
Collaborations can drive transitioning to alternative energy regimes
We emphasize that alternative energy models must be conceived with and for specific communities through a genuinely participatory process.
Beyond Legal Status: Rethinking Immigration and Health in Rural America
Only by seeing immigrants in their full humanity—beyond simple legal categories—can we develop responses that serve both immigrant communities and rural America as a whole.
France | Not Perfect, But Possible – Seeing is Believing at Institut de Tramayes
After such an inspiring visit, the momentum can only build: the Institut de Tramayes will join us at the Gathering in Plessé in November. They’ll participate in our opening day, where we’ll collectively explore the question: What is a Université Paysanne?
We’re Surrounded by Crises. What’s Stopping Us from Acting?
Where markets “commodify” and states “collectify”, Commons initiatives “commonify”: rooted in a culture of collaboration around the needs of a community, they mutualise the benefits that arise from collectively created wealth—through systems owned, governed, and maintained by the community itself.
To Plastic, or Not to Plastic? The Ethical Failure of a Wasteful Society
In Hamlet, the prince ultimately acts—but only after much hesitation, after much suffering. Let us not wait until we are beyond saving to make our choice. To plastic, or not to plastic? That is not just a question. It is one of the defining moral decisions of our time.
Modern Provincialism
It is the modernists, not the villagers, who are the “narrow provincials.” It is the believers in Progress who have chained daring and dynamism to petty purposes and passive self-absorption. That belief has bloodied the past and will do the same in any future built to its specifications.
The Three Most Important Words We’re Taught Not to Say
In this week’s Frankly, Nate considers the ways in which our social species overvalues false confidence rather than the more honest and inquisitive response of “I don’t know.”
