The Seeds Herman Planted: Final Episode of Going Steady with Herman Daly
In tandem with the 80th United Nations General Assembly, we’re asking a vital question: where do we find hope at such a challenging time? And the answer is in our cities.
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Strangled by Formalities: Bureaucracy and the Machinery of Control
The basis of bureaucracy is the complex hierarchical stratification of society into order-givers and order-takers, and it is when social movements open spaces where this division is abolished, that the perspective for a coherent alternative begin to emerge.
Regulating AI use could stop its runaway energy expansion
So, we are left with pressing questions. Can we harness the benefits of AI without accelerating environmental collapse? Can AI be made truly sustainable – and if so, how?
Colombia’s flower industry: a story of extractivism and resistance
For degrowth thinkers and activists, this means not only rejecting extractivism in theory but learning from the everyday practices of those who are working on alternatives. But it also means finding hope and direction in the grounded, collective visions blooming across the Sabana de Bogotá.
Rural Europe Takes Action – Food System Lessons from Marburg
Against this backdrop, the case of Marburg reminds us how local communities are building sustainable food systems for their regions, despite the obstacles. If EU agriculture and rural policies are mishandled in the next cycle, those obstacles will likely intensify – but the changemakers will keep moving.
In the disunited states, conflict and uncertainty rule – Time to come home
It is time to come home and build a better future in the places where we live.
Is the 6ME Hyperbole?
To the extent that modernity remains “real,” so does a 6ME: they go together. Maybe, then, it’s modernity that’s hyperbole. It still rhymes.
Why I’ve given up on fashion and why we need to build a new earth-centric culture
I invite everyone to examine their wardrobes and their own perspectives, to develop unique ways forward and tentatively build a new clothing culture. This may seem difficult or even impossible but what is fashionable starts in the mind, something that is within all our power.
Designing Land Access with Deep Time in Mind: Moving Toward a Timeless Ethic of Land Stewardship
When we begin to act with deep time in mind, perhaps future generations will remember us not for what we took, but for what we tended, protected, and passed on.
Me, the collapsnik!?
What is a collapse? Do I believe in collapse? If so, what kind of collapse do I envision and what will come thereafter? Is the current system collapsing?
Another Orca Mother Spotted Pushing Her Dead Calf
The Lummi, who consider themselves related to these whales and have lived amongst them for millennia, say these mother whales are not only grieving, they are communicating, calling out for us to see their plight.
Review of ‘Power Station’
I will say, without any sense of exaggeration or hyperbole, that this is one of the most important films ever made. Everyone needs to see it.
