Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Chinese automaker BYD (their slogan, at least in English, is ‘Build Your Dreams”) announced on Tuesday that its new cars—available in April for $30,000 if you’re in a place where you can buy one—will recharge in five minutes. Or, roughly, the time it takes to fill your tank with gasoline.
Instead of imposing control on the complexity “out there,” we can nurture the complexity “in here” to get better at listening, learning, and responding. Sometimes we don’t need more data, we just need to get out there and dance.
Will AI solve all of our major problems or cause the extinction of the human race? Extreme views can lead to extreme and unwarranted actions.
Sooner or later, sovereign nations must confer technological and political power to planetary institutions beyond their political borders, while devolving economic power to the bioregional and local communities within their state boundaries
As glaciers melt upstream, Pamiri farmers are engaged in regenerative agriculture and saving seeds, while strengthening their culture and biodiversity.
The colonizing rules, which seemed to work so well for a while, at least for some, have propelled us into the evolutionary cul-de-sac called modernity.
How do we get from the current system to the desired one? How do we influence people to change their way of life so they engage again with practical activities linked with their own needs? How do we not target just privileged people but also people from popular classes?
These interactive books and events encourage fresh perspectives on long-standing social systems.
Since their inception, The Trans and Queer Fund and UmaUma Buy Nothing group, both based in Kenya, and an untitled queer collective in Uganda have organised themselves to be independent from foreign donors, which they say do not understand the realities of the communities they serve.
Most of the United States’ major climate regulations are underpinned by one important document: It’s called the endangerment finding, and it concludes that greenhouse gas emissions are a threat to human health and welfare.
By implementing robust local policies, capitalizing on their constitutional rights, and fostering multi-state cooperation, U.S. states can establish substantial barriers against federal actions that threaten their environmental priorities.
In the end, building a commons economy is the only way to deliver systems change. The way it turns into an economy is when people have bought rent vouchers, flax vouchers, kWh vouchers etc, that they begin to be able to exchange for other things, and not need pounds. If people need fewer pounds, they don’t have to work so much.
