Understanding Power
It’s high time we discussed power more honestly, compassionately, and intelligently. But first we have to understand what we’re talking about.
Society
From the Commune to communalism
Why has the Commune inspired so many different movements and tendencies? How could this idea be transferred between so many different social, political, cultural and economic contexts?
Movie review: Annihilation
Loosely based on an eponymous 2014 novel by Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation centers around a journey to the heart of an anomalous region known as Area X on America’s southern coast.
The fat-takers cross the oceans
From its beginnings more than five centuries ago, European colonization has been based on an unsustainable exploitation of resources.
Mass Education and the Climate Crisis: Lessons from the Pandemic (Part 5)
The body politic was sick long before the virus arrived, already at risk of collapse under the weight of its elite hierarchies. When its fever breaks, we must learn the right lessons about how to overcome the underlying issues that threaten its very existence.
Relative Status and Environmental Breakdown, or… the Story of Bartenders and Bird Feathers (Episode 33 of Crazy Town)
How can the climate disaster and humanity’s overall sustainability crisis be explained by 80s sitcom characters, birdbrained hats from the late 1800s, and a dubious new use for scratch-and-sniff technology?
How Sustainable is High-tech Health Care?
Health care is one of the most important economic sectors in high income countries, but its environmental footprint is underreported and not often considered.
COVID-19 is here to stay. Now we must redesign our economies around it
We need to think about COVID-19 as a relatively long-term problem, rather than something that can be dealt with as a short, sharp shock.
Nature Needs a New Pronoun: To Stop the Age of Extinction, Let’s Start by Ditching “It”
The language allows no form of respect for the more-than-human beings with whom we share the Earth. In English, a being is either a human or an “it.”
The Value of Nature in the City
As the pandemic continues to disrupt normal life, it has also revealed the value of access to nature, public space and community services, particularly for dense urban areas.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 31 Michelle Singletary
Michelle Singletary is an author and award-winning personal finance columnist. She writes the nationally syndicated personal finance column “The Color of Money”, which appears in The Washington Post. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
The spectre of climate fascism and how we resist it
You know what? The one thing that scares me more than the thought of a not-so-distant future of climate breakdown, is a future where the far-right dominate our society’s response to climate breakdown.
