Top Economists Hail Chilean Constitution as ‘New Global Standard’ on Climate, Inequality
A group of world-renowned economists and social scientists published an open letter Wednesday hailing Chile’s draft constitution as a transformative document…
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Plunging Into the Polycrisis
The more I listened to participants, though, the more I realized perhaps most accurate word is “embrace”, for is it really possible to manage this polycrisis?
Democracy Rising 24: Scaling Deliberation—Austrian Citizens’ Councils
Citizens’ Councils can also be part of a broader range of processes used within a given region to support a larger “deliberative system.”
Pennsylvania County Bans Fracking in Area Parks
Eight years after allowing a shale gas company to drill beneath Deer Lakes County Park for methane gas, the Pennsylvania county home to Pittsburgh has banned all industrial activity in the area’s eight other parks — despite a veto from the county executive.
Climate Knocking at Our Door: How to Integrate Climate into Our Sense of Self
It’s worth noting that all integration work – in our relationship with the climate and in any area of our lives – is not a “holy grail” we find at one moment in time and then the work is done.
Now is the Time to Prepare
In economics there is a proposition known as Dornbusch’s Law that states: Crises take longer to arrive than you can imagine, but when they do come, they happen faster than you can possibly imagine.
On the Hudson River, a New Model of Environmental Stewardship
If we’re going to succeed at problems like adapting to climate change, protecting clean water supplies, and preserving biodiversity, we all need to think differently, work collaboratively, and commit to learning as we go.
Silent Stalwart
Like the profuse blooms of the brown-eyed susan, a multitude of people must come forth to fully pursue, serve and save life.
City Pattern, Life Pattern
All meaningful change in our cities requires choosing better patterns, but, more importantly, it begins by rethinking the values and vision of life that are informing our imagination.
Democracy Rising 23: Scaling Deliberation—the Maclean’s Magazine Experiment
Despite their differences, the intense time pressure, and being continuously filmed by a crew from Canadian TV (for an hour-long public affairs program) these ordinary citizens by the end of their third day had all signed a detailed, co-created, visionary agreement charting a course to greater mutual understanding by all Canadians.
An Activist’s Guide to Reclaiming, Restoring, and Redirecting Your Attention: Part 2
Environmental psychology offers practices we can build into our daily lives that manage and restore a precious mental resource we all have: ‘directed attention’.
Beyond Self-Help and Esotericism: Freedom as Political Action
All the modern short-cuts (such as self-help, esotericism etc.) are tools that can give us an illusion of being free in an unfree world. Actual freedom is nothing short of genuinely democratic action.
