Europe’s climate movement is fractured and stuck — here is a way forward
The iterations of the climate movement of previous years are not the movements that will win the struggle today.
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Crazy Town Bonus Riff. Baghdad Bob Visits Climate Town
Jason, Rob, Asher, and Melody consider how to manage climate anxiety and use it in service of caring for planet Earth.
Living on a War Planet
Meanwhile, the lesson for the United States should be simple enough: the survival of the planet cannot wait for the world’s last superpower to complete our endless business of war.
Learning to walk again
One of the most important steps we can take is in realizing that we are not civilization: humanity is a bigger and more versatile concept than the current mode we’ve stumbled onto (become trapped within).
We Did Not Evolve to Be Selfish—and We Can Choose How Our Cultures Evolve
Ours is a critical time in the cultural evolution of humanity that is likely to shape our long-term future, or lack thereof.
In Search of Climate Politics’ Radical Center
To cultivate the radical center and build consensus around climate initiatives, we need to speak to the values of our audience.
Iain McGilchrist: “Wisdom, Nature, and the Brain”
On this episode, literary scholar and psychiatrist Iain McGilchrist joins Nate to discuss the way modern culture teaches and encourages us to use – and not use – the two lobes of our brains.
The New Global Power of Indigenous Peoples
The empowerment achieved by indigenous peoples in recent decades has arisen from the synergy created between the knowledge generated in the academy and the movements of resistance and rebellion and their organizations.
Our Time on the River
We might now wish to slow things down, but modernity was built on a lie; a fatal flaw. If we voiced the command: “Slow down, Hal,” we’d get the response: “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
Reckoning with ‘the battering ram of the Anthropocene’
Is the word right on the tip of your tongue? You know, the word that sums up the ecological effects of more, faster and bigger vehicles, driving along more and wider lanes of roadway, throughout your region and all over the world?
Moving beyond empire, building the future in place
That is what building the future in place is all about, creating an ecosystem of community institutions that meets human needs and balances our relations in the natural world, prioritizing communities and people falling through the cracks of the current system.
A revival of natural building in Ladakh
Within Local Futures’ broad focus on promoting economic localization – shifting our economies towards place-based, ecological, human-scale activity – we promote vernacular and traditional knowledge, skills, practices and cultures, including in the built environment.
