Truths We Can’t Bear Alone: Facing an ‘Inconvenient Apocalypse’
In the face of multiple cascading crises, we have to tell as much of the truth as one can bear, then a little more, and then all the rest of the truth, whether one can bear it or not.
Society
Review | Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations
Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations is a powerful, multidimensional work of extraordinary vision and reach whose overarching theme of humans sharing encounters with our other-than-human relations presaged a project out of the ordinary.
The Power Podcast: Episode 3 Fire, Tools, and Language
As people learned to wield fire, deploy an array of tools, and coordinate actions through increasingly descriptive language, they became more capable of concentrating power.
The Cult of Civilization
This post offers ten heretical statements that seem obvious to me, but tend to produce emotionally charged reactions by members of the cult of civilization. Watch yourself, now.
A dazzlingly precious gift from the future
The Vauban, a district of Freiburg which is home to about 3000 people, is one of the most ambitious and best-known car-free neighbourhoods in Europe.
Green Road of Ecovillages, Six Months into War
The project showed its resilience in conditions of the hard war times and will be able to share this knowledge after the victory.
The Power Podcast: Episode 2 Power in Nature
To understand humanity’s relationship with energy and power, and to get a handle on why we’re experiencing a polycrisis of climate change, social inequality, and loss of biodiversity, you have to go back to the beginning – all the way back to the origins of life on Earth.
The Politics of Overconsumption and Getting the Scale Right
No matter how difficult the transition may be, in the not too distant future we will have to live in far smaller and more flexible social organizations than today’s nation-states and cities.
No need to reinvent the wheel: The settlement house as a time-tested model for community resilience
Communities can build resilience to climate change within the heart of their neighborhoods through incorporating the settlement house model within climate action plans.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 86 Kinari Webb
Kinari Webb, MD, is the founder of Health In Harmony, an international nonprofit dedicated to reversing global heating, understanding that rainforests are essential for the survival of humanity, and a cofounder of Alam Sehat Lestari (ASRI). She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Ukraine, Russia and the blindness of war
“No battle plan survives the first shot.” This quote describes the predicament in which both sides of the Russia-Ukraine conflict find themselves.
The rights of nature movement cannot be stopped
From the Navajo Nation to a small town in Pennsylvania to Ecuador, then across the world, the idea of enshrining the rights of nature is only growing.
