Peak Oil, AI, and the Straw

In this Frankly, Nate shares his perspective on the new all-time high in oil production in the context of AI’s growing influence in the financial markets and technology space. While ‘all liquids’ just hit an all time high, the varying categories of what is considered oil obfuscates a long plateau that is starting to decline.

Treeconomics: A (Not-So)-New Image for the Business World

The time has never been riper to reach the heights of Mount Sustainability, and once there, plant trees under whose shade we can take wonder at the wide view in front of us. Perhaps then we’ll cease to behave as masters and start living as guests, treading lightly in a world that has been here long before us—one that’s certainly not of our own making.

The Key Biodiversity Areas Programme Must Do Better for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities

In summary, this report finds that there should be no confusion or uncertainty as to whether the Global KBA Standard or its implementation in Canada enjoy meaningful compatibility with IPLC environmental priorities, such as those held by the Mi’kmaq in Mi’kma’ki: they do not. But they could. And they must.

Why I Don’t Rely on Hope

Get up in the morning, day after day, try to find something worth doing, and then do it as well as possible, realizing that failure will be routine but that small successes—sometimes really small, maybe even too small to see in the moment—make it possible to continue.