Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Community Resilience in the face of disasterā¦ What does it mean to care for your community in unprecedented times, and how do you successfully navigate a rapidly shifting landscape of needs, opportunities, and challenges?
Building bridges between people of difference against a backdrop of racism, political polarization, misinformation, and social division may sound like a milquetoast way of pursuing change. But itās not.
If we are serious about guaranteeing a decent future to our families and those who will come after us, we must change our societies at large.
Mass protests that began in 2019 in Chile ā and have deep roots in the countryās militant history of resistance to neoliberalism ā are about to bring about a new constitution.
One of the biggest current problems with our politics is that the political systems that emerged in the first part of the 20th century, and which dominated the long post-war boom, have now cracked apart, but new systems have not yet taken their place.
Cultivating cooperative, self-sustaining communities can undermine destructive economic systems and offer meaningful responses to social-ecological crises in the wake of the pandemic.
As a writer, my work involves a search for small islands of coherence ā that I can later describe ā in which social and ecological relationships thrive together.
India has been added to the UK āred listā. With the country setting a global record for case numbers reported in a single day andĀ reportsĀ of oxygen shortages and hospitals becoming overwhelmed, a year into this pandemic we may well be facing its most serious crisis yet.
A proper reorganisation should be based on this understanding of work as just one of several realms of life; a life brimming with moments of connection, rest, labour, contemplation, education, and idleness.
If human institutions fail to move from dominion to partnership, from patriarchy to solidarity, there can be no social/ecological justice, and we might as well forget about exploring other planets.
What 2021 seems to offer is a space to name and claim the full possibility that humans can still be a blessing on this earth, that the blueprints for a society based on well-being are well-developed and ready to build.
Ensuring equitable vaccine access is about human rights. And access should never have been determined by wealth.
