Bright Green Lies: Review
It’s been a year since ‘Planet of the Humans’ caused the leaders of climate campaigns to go into heated meltdown. By comparison, this film throws them an even greater challenge to try and respond to.
Society
The Last Mile
And there is no shame in leaving the marked trail of the race you started to follow a better course. There is only shame at not running your best race. For yourself and for Gaia.
Brave New Normal
Cultivating cooperative, self-sustaining communities can undermine destructive economic systems and offer meaningful responses to social-ecological crises in the wake of the pandemic.
Becoming Home
I intend to be fully here in this new home. I will care for this place and be with and through and among this place. I will become wise with the knowledge this place holds. And I will become native — healthy, regenerative and in right relationship — to this place. This is my home.
Is Earth’s climate about to pass the tipping point?
There are many examples of Tipping points (TP). Although tipping points and points of no return are the buzzwords of our times, we should probably be using them more than we are.
The relationship of my texts to a dead fish
As a writer, my work involves a search for small islands of coherence – that I can later describe – in which social and ecological relationships thrive together.
Nature Detachment and Ecocide, or… the Story of the Marauding Mountain Lion (Episode 40 of Crazy Town)
The more we wall ourselves off from nature, the more likely we are to continue on the path of climate chaos and extinction. Join Asher, Rob, and Jason on their search for how to reconnect with nature.
India’s crisis is our crisis
India has been added to the UK ‘red list’. With the country setting a global record for case numbers reported in a single day and reports of oxygen shortages and hospitals becoming overwhelmed, a year into this pandemic we may well be facing its most serious crisis yet.
To What End?
Humans have acquired the power to radically change the world. Great power should ideally be wielded only by those capable of great responsibility.
Transforming Work, Reimagining Education
A proper reorganisation should be based on this understanding of work as just one of several realms of life; a life brimming with moments of connection, rest, labour, contemplation, education, and idleness.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 38 Glacier Kwong
Glacier Kwong is a political and digital rights activist born and raised in Hong Kong. She is founder of the NGO Keyboard Frontline and is a Research Fellow at Hong Kong Democracy Council in the US. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Op-ed: Flood survivors find common ground in a divided nation
Today, Americans have sorted ourselves into communities defined by geography, demography, ideology— and opportunities to communicate across those divides are exceedingly rare. But the shared trauma of flooding offers an opening.
