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?
Society
Crazy Town Bonus Riff. Infinite, Unlimited, Forever – Water in the Desert
Just how much has the extractivist growth mindset come to dominate Phoenix and other cities in the desert Southwest of the United States? Prepare to turn your indignation meter up to 11 as Jason, Rob, and Asher consider desalination, pipelines, and the folly of pursuing infinite growth in a dry climate.
Reporting a World-in-Crisis: The Axial Crisis of Perception and Beyond. Part 2
For most of the time, voices seeking to raise the alarm and respond to immanent processes of unfolding world collapse, are unheard in the mainstream news media.
Cheaters!
It would serve us to better understand the spirit of the rules by which the rest of the community of life plays, and work our way into compliant behaviors.
No Frost
What is small and unimportant in this culture will be its heir. The children will survive and will be concerned with tomatoes and potatoes and frost… and stories…
Frontlines Resistance Against Fossil Fuel Expansion in the Balkans
The Adriatic Climate Camp created a vibrant training program and community that pulled off two major direct actions against the natural gas industry and remains resilient in the face of police brutality.
Holding the Fire: Episode 3. Fighting Ecosystem Collapse with Aslak Holmberg
It’s challenging to hear about collapsing ecosystems and the global climate spiraling out of balance, but by acknowledging this reality, we are able to orient ourselves and respond accordingly to the crises. On that note, I was excited to speak with Aslak Holmberg, an Indigenous Saami who lives on the Deatnu River, on the border of Norway and Finland.
Disastrous capitalism in Morocco in wake of earthquake
The term ‘neoliberal earthquake’ may seem like a cliche, but in the context of the recent natural disaster in Morocco, it really does encompass some of the defining elements of contemporary capitalism.
Living in a World-in-Crisis: Thinking Beyond Catastrophism. Part 1
Resilience here, then, is not the naïve faith in riding the storm and putting the world back together more or less as it was, issue by issue, but recognising the necessity to fundamentally reorganise and reorient human society in ways that can allow human flourishing and ecological sustainability in symbiotic and mutually supportive relations of reciprocity and regeneration – and in a multiplicity of ways.
The Growing Movement to Bring Back Community Grief and Ritual
A free and open community grief-tending event in Berkeley, California, set an example for coming to terms with loss—of people we love and of nature.
Food & Community in the Ruins: Dougald Hine, Chris Smaje, Pella Thiel
On this Reality Roundtable, philosopher and writer Dougald Hine, social scientist and farmer Chris Smaje, and ecologist and farmer Pella Thiel join Nate to discuss the future of food and community.
An elegy in prose for Michael Dowd
Michael Dowd’s spirit left his body, in the wee hours of Saturday, October 7, pulling out the roots of him from thousands, tens of thousands, of people – me included.
