Building car-dependent neighborhoods
Car-dependent neighbourhoods arise in a multi-level framework of planning, subsidies, advertising campaigns and cultural choices.
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My speech at Extinction Rebellion’s ‘The Big One’
So let’s make our story one that nurtures and kindles a deep deep longing for the future, whether we have a time machine or not.
Public, Private, Communal: Gift is not theft
Not everyone will yet be ready to meet us in commoning. But some will. And these are the friends we will be needing
John Kitzhaber: “What Makes a Healthy Society?”
On this episode, former Governor of Oregon and ER Doctor John Kitzhaber joins Nate to discuss the shortcomings of the medical system in the United States.
This Is Not a Case Study: Situating the Politics of the 6 February Earthquakes within Long-Standing Injustices
The disaster that has been unfolding in Turkey since the earthquakes of 6 February is a material-spatial legacy of the country’s histories of state violence.
Jerry Mander: 1936-2023
An author, bon vivant, and impresario of activism whose career of sensational campaigns reads like a history of the modern progressive movement.
Shifting the Paradigm
With his 1962 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Thomas Kuhn launched the concept of paradigm shift which could be applied to a variety of historical cultural changes as well as desired future ones.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 100 Riane Eisler
Riane Eisler is a social systems scientist, cultural historian, futurist, and attorney whose research, writing, and speaking has transformed the lives of people worldwide. She answers the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Black rides matter: Diverse cycling groups show that biking is for everyone
Biking isn’t just for the White, male, able-bodied, heterosexual, and privileged; it’s for everyone.
The Pandemic Portal View
In so many other ways, our society has refused to relinquish old and odious thinking and is instead “dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred” through the portal of the pandemic.
How parking ate North American cities
The consequences of car parking include the atrophy of many inner-city communities; a crisis of affordable housing; environmental damages including but not limited to greenhouse gas emissions; and the continued incentivization of suburban sprawl.
Democracy Rising 28: AI, Gossip, and Our Epistemological Crisis
ChatGPT and its successors and rivals, whatever their virtues, are the latest agents in the corruption of the public sphere by digital technology, threatening to extend and deepen the misinformation, fabulism, and division stoked by Twitter and other digital media.
