Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Six years on, of the four scenarios outlined in Future Scenarios, Holmgren is seeing the Brown Tech scenario as the one currently in play, where the decline of fossil fuels unfolds slowly…
Those who are fighting to save the climate need a new strategy. One such strategy to consider is a global nonviolent law-enforcing insurgency, where citizens take it upon themselves to defend the climate directly and preserve the public trust for generations to come.
A growing number of hospitals are shifting the way they think about protecting and improving health, and taking a closer look at how and where the food they serve is grown.
Detroit was the cradle of Fordist capitalism and the American dream. Then it became their grave. But now, amidst the ruins, something is moving. Is there an end to the city’s decline?
Some communities in Ohio are fed up by the way that corporations, colluding with state legislatures, simply override the concerns of local communities.
Finance, even in its most high-tech formulations, is rooted in ecological systems.
As we in the North approach the winter solstice – traditionally a time of slowing down, contemplation, and letting go of the past year — we are filled with gratitude for so much that we have been given, and only barely awakened to the new possibilities these gifts bestow.
The results of the dialogue I conducted with my garden in 2013 are in. Did my hypotheses bear out? What questions did the garden ask and answer that I didn’t anticipate? You’ll have to read the post to find out!
Richard Heinberg presenting at Universidad Metropolitana (UMET) Puerto Rico.
It’s as if you have a terrible heart attack and surgery, you’ve just come out of intensive care and the doctor says there’s no need to change anything of your previous life, don’t exercise much and keep up your intake of fatty foods!
Nicole Foss and Laurence Boomert highlight community initiatives that can help people meet basic needs, even as monetary institutions pursue desperation measures. Then, John Michael Greer joins us … to highlight the lack of whole systems thinking in internet visionaries after Seth and Justin discuss the money illusion.
When you do a 10 or 100 or locavore diet, you realize how our current food system is like a stage set for the Okay Corral. Behind those false fronts is a machinery of illusion.
