The Collapse of Rhetoric. Can Economists and Ecologists Talk to Each Other?
At the time of Seneca, rhetoric was perhaps the main skill of a man of culture: the capability of debating was valued and practiced.
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Global Coup d’État: Mapping the Corporate Takeover of Global Governance
Corporations have stepped beyond lobbying governments. They are integrating in policy-making at the national and international levels.
Navajo Nation: From No. 1 in infections to No. 1 in vaccinations
Even though Agnes Attakai is a longtime Indian health administrator, she had no way of knowing that her Diné family members would become a textbook illustration of Native America’s disadvantages in facing the Covid-19 pandemic.
Sowing the seed of the future
Visionary fiction-writing is a practice we can use to imagine and prepare for the future together, to generate the ideas that we want to see more of in the world
The To-Do List
I’ve made a list that is as general as it can be. These steps will need to be taken in every community. This list is also practical. You can do all of it and all of it will make a difference to you and the rest of the world.
What is Communal Living?
For a long time, we have been walking away from a lifestyle of community and sharing, towards an individualistic lifestyle centred around our space and our possessions.
Isn’t it high time for a change?
Under a White Sky: Review
In Under a White Sky Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction, examines the future world we are engineering.
Capitalism, the Doomsday Machine (or, How to Repurpose Growth Capital)
Why wait for collapse? Repurposing growth capital now could help unwind the doomsday machine sooner rather than later.
What Is a Migrant Worth?
The root cause of our social and environmental challenges is neoliberalism and the fetish of the market, which values profit over people and sees nature simply as a commodity.
Review of New Maps, the latest deindustrial fiction quarterly
As its name alludes, this visionary new fiction quarterly seeks to challenge our current mental maps of the future.
Five Surprising Benefits of Shopping Less Often
Nearly a year ago when cases of Covid-19 started rising in my area, one of the first things I did was alter my shopping routine.
What’s in a Name?
This is the pathway forward: cultivating nature in ways that heal both the landscape and provide for people. Gaian Guilds can mimic those holistic interactions to cultivate a restorative community: working to heal social ills in ways that also heal the Earth.
