A Day to Listen – REALLY LISTEN – to Indigenous People
As Post Carbon Institute and Resilience.org celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day, we’re excited to launch a new podcast series – Holding the Fire: Indigenous Voices on the Great Unraveling.
Society
Climate Politics Today: The View from Washington
The most serious question is: how can anything get done without compromise? Democracy doesn’t work without it, government fails to function, and it’s the people that pay the price.
Community Care After the Maui Wildfire
Three weeks after the fire, when asked what people in Lāhainā, Hawai‘i, needed the most, Chris Mangca didn’t answer with a list of supplies. Instead, he said, “They need a break, love, some happiness, to see that people care about them.”
Are WE Lucky?
When contemplating an action, think to yourself: “Would this likely be a net benefit to US (the community of life), or a net harm?”
Been Drivin’ for Months Out Here
I need this desert, more than it needs me
its sound vibrating through me
the water churning
rushing down the river bed
but it was only a momentary occurrence
where did it go?
The Slow-Motion Equivalent of a Nuclear War?
It couldn’t be more inappropriate to use the term “new Cold War” right now on a globe where a previously unimagined version of a hot war is staring us all, including most distinctly the United States and China, in the face.
On Being Reasonable
A new mass constituency for fundamental change – the new way of reasoning made flesh – is visible amidst the blight and the rot. No member of this constituency would find it reasonable to trade clean air for cheap household items, health and justice for toys and gadgets.
Democracy Rising 30: Wicked Problems, Wise Communities, Part 2
If we set out to design processes to ensure horrible, unproductive conversations that keep us from addressing shared problems well, our current national system would do very well.
One School’s Missing History
In Pitts’s case, the history of the Kansas Technical Institute is just the beginning of a tale that led to Topeka Correctional, the school-to-prison pipeline, a community’s loss, and a distinctly unnerving world.
Review: The Girls’ Guide To Off Grid Living by Amanda Kovattana
Amanda Kovattana is a fascinating woman, someone who has lived a truly extraordinary life by consistently choosing to live it on her own terms.
Brian Merchant’s “Blood In the Machine”
Luddites are not – and have never been – anti-technology. Rather, they are pro-human, and see production as a means to an end: broadly shared prosperity.
Contested development imaginaries: Hindutva and the co-optation of ‘decolonisation’
As the Indian state uses its turn leading the G20 to position itself as a global development leader and representative of the Global South, we focus specifically on the ways in which these development imaginaries are being addressed in India.
