Mary Evelyn Tucker: “Religion, Ecology, and the Future”
This week, religious scholar Mary Evelyn Tucker unpacks the entanglement of religion and ecology from an academic perspective.
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The Power Podcast: Episode 4 The Rise of Social Inequality
Richard Heinberg explores the development of social power – simply defined as the ability to get other people to do something.
Real Climate Action’s Not at COP-27, but It Is in a Thousand Rebellious Communities
In the peril-filled decade ahead, local, collective struggles by people of all ages—as exemplified by Extinction Rebellion, PODER, and Start:Empowerment—will be essential to advancing multiracial, pluralistic democracy and climate justice nationwide.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 87 Phoebe Barnard
Phoebe Barnard is an environmental and societal futures analyst, sustainability strategist, global change ecologist, biodiversity conservation biologist, climate risk and resilience specialist, policy wonk, and film co-producer. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Review: The Unheard Song by Cary Neeper
The plights of these two species shed invaluable light on the real-life situation we humans now face as a result of our shortsighted impacts on Earth’s ecology—but do so without hitting us over the proverbial head the way scenarios in a lesser novel might.
The Power Podcast: Episode 3 Fire, Tools, and Language
As people learned to wield fire, deploy an array of tools, and coordinate actions through increasingly descriptive language, they became more capable of concentrating power.
A dazzlingly precious gift from the future
The Vauban, a district of Freiburg which is home to about 3000 people, is one of the most ambitious and best-known car-free neighbourhoods in Europe.
No need to reinvent the wheel: The settlement house as a time-tested model for community resilience
Communities can build resilience to climate change within the heart of their neighborhoods through incorporating the settlement house model within climate action plans.
Fraguas: six young people in Spain face two years and a half in prison for rebuilding a town demolished by Franco
Now Lalo and another five persons face going to jail for two years and a half if they don’t pay nearly 110.000 euros. This is the money that the court of Guadalajara says it will cost for the demolition of the houses they have rebuilt with the same stones with which the original houses were built.
How to escape the slow cancellation of the future
We have to dare to dream. To conceive and build different futures is central to being human. We cannot let the real ‘cancel culture’ steal our future.
Douglas Rushkoff: “The Ultimate Exit Strategy”
Douglas and I discuss how human behavior interacts with technology and how we have arrived at a place with enormous wealth and income inequality just as society is rapidly approaching biophysical limits.
Democracy Rising 26: Middle Schoolers as Deliberative Civic Actors
In addition to fostering communication and thinking skills, deliberation can lead to changes in how young people engage as learners and citizens.
