Building solidarity around survival – A Seattle example
We are in for some hard times, but in addressing human survival needs such as housing by creating community alliances and institutions, we can build the solidarity we need for the long-term.
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Meet the Passionate Advocates Trying to Save Western Monarch Butterflies
While replanting habitat — including both milkweed and the nectar plants that adult butterflies need — will likely not by itself save the monarch, it’s a critical piece of the puzzle and something nearly everyone can do.
Untangling the Roots of Wild Foods
For centuries, the gifts of nature have been thoughtfully nurtured according to seasonal rhythms, and foods now deemed “wild” have been cultivated with the same devotion as a cherished garden. This truth challenges the prevailing notion of untouched wilderness, revealing instead a landscape shaped by generations of mindful stewardship.
Extractivism and Resistance: Gendered Perspectives on the Global Resource Economy
Women and Indigenous communities have long been at the forefront of these movements, resisting corporate exploitation while advancing alternative economic and governance models that challenge dominant paradigms of development.
How Can the Study of Hierarchy/Heterarchy Influence the Future?
How new information changes theories.
Peter Strack – 2000-Watt Society: The Realities of Living a Low(er) Energy Lifestyle
In today’s discussion, Nate is joined by Peter Strack, a French researcher and author, to explore the concept of 2000-Watt Societies—innovative models that aim to balance reduced energy consumption with the well-being of the people who live there.
The meaning of Lent is limits
Now, what does this have to do with linking a life to place and to season? What do ethics have to do with ritual? How does a seasonal round of celebration put limits on our behavior? And are those limits what we need?
In the Shadow of Mount Nyiro
This is what it feels and sounds like to be embedded within an intact Indigenous culture. It is alive, vibrant, and strong. The very existence of the Samburu pastoralists comes from and exists with the land, and the land is happy with it.
The Wheels Are Falling off Alberta’s Gas-Powered AI Data Centre Proposal
Celebrity investor Kevin “Mr. Wonderful” O’Leary recently hyped the $70 billion AI data center proposal to be powered by “200 trillion cubic feet of sweet natural gas.” Less than two months after O’Leary launched what he called “Canada’s biggest-ever real estate deal” and “the world’s largest AI data centre industrial park,” the wheels appear to be falling off on several fronts.
The Banks We Deserve: Excerpt
Every neighborhood, every community, regardless of the race, ethnicity, or national origin of its residents, deserves to have this kind of access to credit that doesn’t depend solely on credit scores or personal wealth.
The Muskovites Are at the Gates: Is the Republic Doomed?
The tectonic truth is that Donald Trump and Elon Musk could stop their chainsaw rampage through the federal government, foreign alliances, and the US Constitution immediately, and it would take years to undo the cumulative damage they’ve already wrought to democracy, the federal government, and the reputation of the US as a reliable ally.
Hall of Mirrors
However destructive and threatening to all Life, modernity is a brief flash, perhaps best ignored by those who intend to stay for the long haul. Ride it out.
