Why I paint endangered species as sacred icons
I started painting endangered species the way I once painted saints and angels. Each painting became a kind of prayer and an appeal to our capacity to widen our love and awaken our conscience.
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Building an earthship in South Australia – YouTube documentary review
More than just a record of the build, the film is a thoughtful exploration of the knowledge, values and community spirit behind Earthship construction.
Researchers are finding evidence that fish feel pain. What does that mean for the ethics of seafood?
Fish are often treated as reflex-bound creatures, bodies without minds. Yet, study by study, from anatomy labs to behavioural experiments, mounting evidence to the contrary has emerged.
Crazy Town: Episode 130. Finding Crazy Town Part 2: Simplifying Complexity
What if the greatest strength of modern civilization—its incredible complexity—is also its greatest weakness?
How listening can help us respond to a planet in crisis
What does it mean to listen to a planet in crisis? Scholars, scientists and artists are using sound to better understand biodiversity and the climate crisis, while challenging us to reconsider our relationship with the living world.
Feeding the World as if People Mattered: Taking the right lessons from small farm systems – book excerpt
Amid plantation monocultures and industrialized farms built to maximize production at the expense of social and ecological costs to the public, there are also many communities where the economy and ecology are not in conflict.
Six ways advocates and organizations can practice solidarity for environmental justice
Forsaking diversity and inclusion won’t save public lands. It will only splinter our movements and weaken our work to build just futures for all. This article is a call to resist reactionary responses to Trump’s attacks on public lands, environmental justice, and DEI.
Crazy Town: Bonus Episode. Remembering Richard Heinberg: The Power Podcast
The world has lost a voice of clear, truth-telling wisdom—Richard Heinberg—whose work reached millions of people and fundamentally changed the lives of thousands.
Remembering Richard Heinberg: ‘He was one of the clearest and steadiest voices addressing fossil-fuel dependence’
Richard’s writing never minimized the severity of the challenges before us, but neither did it surrender to hopelessness. Again and again, he insisted that another path could be imagined and designed—one based on ecological understanding, community-based economics, and a renewed culture of commoning.
Remembering Richard Heinberg: ‘Tribute to the man behind the legend’
I’ll never forget it. My family and I had just arrived in San Francisco in 2024 to begin a long tour with my podcast. I immediately reached out to Richard and was welcomed with the kindness that characterised him as much as his work.
The green transition is seen as a path forward. Critics say it’s a technological fix for a larger crisis
A debate between Bill McKibben and Mark Roller highlights a central question: Can a “green transition” address a crisis rooted in ecological overshoot?
Gratitude in the Great Unraveling
If collective survival is possible, there will be a lot of work ahead. We’ll be more effective in that work if we’re unburdened by hate and recrimination, and are instead rooted in gratitude for life, nature, and community.
