Ishmael: Chapter 6
Just as gravity keeps the Earth, solar system, and galaxy together/organized, so too does the Law of Life keep the community of life together.
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Urban Legend: The Harebrained Myth of Urban Sustainability and Why You Should Bet on the Country Tortoise
So yeah, let us rewild half (or I’d say almost all) the Earth, with people integrated into ecologically functional landscapes. There is much to be anxious about in the future, but I hope the prospect of people becoming Indigenous to a place again motivates us to work on this more gracious possibility.
Living the Change: How TGS Viewers are Transforming Their Lives and Communities
A few months ago, we invited viewers to share the projects, initiatives, and lifestyle changes they’ve embraced after becoming aware of the global challenges facing humanity. In this special compilation episode, we’re featuring just a few of the many inspiring videos that were submitted.
The End of Big Solutions
The end of Big Solutions is perhaps the end of an illusion. But it is hardly the end of our opportunities to make a difference.
Universities as Innovation Ecologies for Human & Planetary Flourishing
In an era of planetary crisis and a time when universities are increasingly under attack, an underlying question that has gradually moved to the center of attention is this: what is the role of universities in society, and what should their role be going forward?
Craft should be useful
Making home is what we do, how we live, who we are. But for a while now I have been growing increasingly uneasy with craft for craft’s sake, or perhaps craft to relieve the acedia that is bound up with modernity.
Ishmael: Chapter 5
According to the beginning and middle parts of the story, humans have arrived on the planet and are ready to fulfill their destiny: the conquest is in full swing. So: how does it end?
Appalachia, Country Music, and American Politics
We have much cause to worry but neither comfort nor clarity will come if we fixate on widening polarization, Constitutional crises, or warring cultures. Those maladies are symptoms of a more profound distress.
Six Reasons for Communitarian Living
Cobb Hill isn’t the only way to find these six things, thank goodness. You’ll find them in smaller groups and larger ones, in cities, in the tropics, on the coast. In this time of transition and reflection in my own family, I hope that knowing they exist in one place might make it easier for you to imagine (or create) them elsewhere, too.
Reading (UK) – A Town in Transition, and Local Community Resilience
Transition needs local people to get involved, lots of us – we can all help to build the story of our future, then act together to make it real. We do this for ourselves, for our children, and for our children’s children, who will inherit our Earth.
Ishmael: Chapter 4
One cannot consider it to be factual, in any way, that humans were made to rule the Earth. That’s a complete fabrication.
When Government Works
I think of the motto of the French revolution: liberté, égalité, fraternité, but especially the word fraternity—which meant that everyone was united, everyone was together in the struggle. The best possible interactions with neighbors, or with the government, are predicated on the understanding that we are all in this together.
