How seed funding nourishes community action
A seed funding grant could allow you to take the next step forward and open up new, unforeseen possibilities for change – where will you go?
Society
Centering Indigenous Languages in India’s Schools
India is among the most linguistically diverse countries in the world, but its Indigenous languages have been marginalized—along with those who speak them.
Kayaking with Lambs: Excerpt
Somewhere—the gravel road I grew up on, the wharf I fished from, the woods at the end of the road where we roamed, the edge of the bayou where we fought off pirates to keep them from landing—is no longer. It is now an anywhere of pavement, sidewalks, a Walmart, hotels, casinos, and housing developments. Anywhere is nowhere.
Our Ugly Magnificence
Similarly, it is hard not to look at human supremacy as an abdication of context, wisdom, relationship, and the tangled, interconnected world as we find it in favor of a pretend world of parts, algorithms, abstractions, and tidy categories
Five Steps to Climate Sanity: Beyond Both Despair and Hopium
We must act even in the face of hopelessness, warriors defending a sacred place, simply because it is the right thing to do, rebelling beyond hope because the human spirit tells us with insistence that what is unacceptable—all the suffering, all the loss, all the tears—must not be accepted. Fight.
I Would Plant My Apple Tree
This is the place, I want to say, where work which has no obvious or direct connection to the suffering, cruelty and injustice in our news feeds may nonetheless be part of what is called for in response.
Holding the Fire: Episode 4. Understanding Suffering and Knowing Our Place with Galina Angarova
Given the scope of the crises upon us, have you ever felt a yearning to learn more about living in a culture that is not based on extractivism, commodification, acquisition, and exploitation? It was this question that led me to Galina Angarova from the Lake Baikal region of Siberia.
Where are all the people?
So where are all the people? Well, if they’re sensible, they’re doing work for themselves. They are building and mending their own lives.
Long Dead Venusians: Meditation on Climate Change as a Cosmic Theme
Now, fittingly, in our era of collapsing economies, hypertrophied corporations and climate catastrophe, the cosmos embodies our political anxiety.
New worlds to build
There’s real work of transformative adaptation to do to rise to present challenges – unsung, grassroots and local.
Are We the Dinosaurs of the 21st Century?
Consider all of this, then, the deepest form of human madness and just hope that somehow, from the Middle East to Ukraine, Beijing to Washington, we can wake up to what we’re doing to ourselves before it’s too late.
Can car-dependent suburbs become walkable communities?
But once car-dependent regions and neighbourhoods are established, is it possible to retrofit them, in whole or in part, to escape this car-dependency?
