Healing the Boarding School Wound in Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas, pop. 96,369, may seem an unlikely epicenter for intergenerational healing of the deep scars left behind by the legacy of government boarding schools for Indigenous children.
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A Prayer for Nonbelievers
Maybe we need to let go of the comforts of fashionable cynicism and find the courage to affirm such things again. Maybe a prayer for nonbelievers, to quote a line from the song, is what we need just now. We’ll just have to see.
Transformation or Gentrification? The Hazy Politics of the 15-Minute City
With increasing interest in the concept likely to persist, the most optimistic reading of the 15-minute city is to view it as a hook on which there is potential to attach a transformative urban socio-ecological agenda, but only if competing capitalist interests can be successfully fended off.
Women on the verge defending life against the global patriarchy
Women’s strong collective actions point to a tendency that has been emerging in recent years and anticipates a future where women will feature prominently once again. Women are thinking and living on the verge.
Seeing the One in the Many
As ecological consciousness grows more thinkers are putting forth holistic interpretations of the world which tackle the age-old problem of the one and the many that poses the two questions: how can a thing with many parts be one and how can there be many things of one kind?
Is This the Future of Civic Engagement?
Gordon says that there are no shortcuts around the amount of work involved in this model of community engagement. “You’re building relationships, building trust.”
Lessons for the Climate Conflict from the Afghanistan Withdrawal
I’d like to use this withdrawal as a foil to one of the many fronts in the climate war we’re waging (if you’ll forgive the militarized metaphor)—specifically geoengineering.
The American Alley, Part 3: The End of the American Alley
As ADUs are developed along alleys in the next few years, we are presented with an opportunity: to construct ADUs which front the street and transform the service alley into a minor street, or to construct ADUs which only look into the private lot, simply leaving the alley as it is.
Restless and Relentless Minds: Thinking as a “Species out of Context”
I have no comprehensive proposal for how we can get to “fewer and less,” nor does anyone else. The scale and scope of the challenge is unprecedented, and beyond the reach of conventional policy proposals. But we can enhance our chances of success by cultivating restless and relentless minds.
The American Alley, Part 2: Origins of the American Alley
Understanding the alley’s past reveals it for what it is today: a hidden resource for making our cities stronger and more prosperous.
Tribes Get Creative in Teaching Tradition and Community
Today, Native nations are creating vibrant children’s programs, using the most up-to-date and culturally appropriate means to keep their youngsters involved in tradition and community—while still ensuring their safety in these dangerous pandemic times.
Lessons from Afghanistan
The Americans failed at ‘nation-building’ because they spent all the money on the military. The British delusions of being an independent ‘global’ power have been shown up for what they are. And the people who pay the price for this are the Afghanis, still living in one of the poorest states in the world.
