“Walkability” is a red herring. City life comes from connectedness
In America, almost all of the infrastructure we’ve built since the mid-century is disconnected.
Society
The Guilford food hub: Growing community resilience one lemon bar at a time
How a small Vermont town built a thriving local food system that keeps $50,000 annually in the community while creating social connection.
Walkability is not just about walking
Walkable cities are places that do best what cities are meant to do: contain and display human life with all of its variety, tension, diversity, struggle and beauty.
Why we need to think outside the box this election
Defending the upcoming election from authoritarian capture will require massive turnout, and we all have roles to play.
AI and Ecocivilization: The threats of AI to human flourishing are multiple and profound
The danger AI poses can be understood as an extrapolation of the disruptions we’re already experiencing from Big Tech’s stranglehold over our lives.
How do we act when we don’t know if we’ll win? – Interview with writer Paul Loeb
Alexandria Shaner spoke with Paul Loeb about hope, organizing, and building power in dark times.
Why artificial intelligence must be stopped now
Humanity is outsourcing its executive control of nearly every key sector—finance, warfare, medicine, agriculture—to algorithms with no moral capacity. If you are wondering what could go wrong, the answer is plenty.
Longing to belong: The power of a place called home
A thriving village is a collective creation. People, place, participation, creativity, and inclusion are the ingredients.
How an invasive weed could help Tucson rebuild from the ground up
An Arizona community’s plan to reuse an invasive weed to construct low-income housing shows that when we can’t pressure the top, we can rebuild from the bottom.
Crazy Town: Episode 134. Finding Crazy Town Part 6: Facing the Future
What would it actually mean to live with less? Can we preserve the things we value most—health, human rights, cultural diversity, individual freedom—without preserving the system that created them?
9,000-acre nuclear-powered data center proposed on public lands in Utah
The facility calls for 456 small nuclear reactors, nuclear fuel production and nuclear waste storage. On the same day it surfaced, Sen. Ron Wyden introduced legislation that would ban new data centers.
Unordinary Interventions: How to plant seeds for a better future
What can one person actually do about the metacrisis? In this week’s Frankly, Nate explicitly outlines just a few of the countless actions we can take to actually change what’s coming.
