The U.S. is broken. Time to think about what comes next
The United States is broken. We should consider a more decentralized democratic order as what comes next.
Society
Words and worship
Presently, the major currents of thinking on both the mainstream political left and right seem fatefully enraptured with the centralized politics of the nation-state, believing that if the correct government is in place it will deliver what the people really want. If people were to stop thinking that, we may be at the start of a politics equal to present times.
What’s next after the historic No Kings protest?
Because what we’re doing isn’t just resisting. We’re reclaiming the democracy we always should have had from those who would rule us as kings.
Challenging Monopoly Power: Why Local Business is Better for People, the Planet, and Your Wallet
In this episode, Nate is joined by economic writer and strategist, Stacy Mitchell, to explore how concentrated economic power shapes the health of towns and cities – from economic resilience to social connectedness.
How to live sustainably in an unsustainable world?
So, all we can hope that the path of sustainability becomes wider and better lit, because as long as it is too difficult, most people will take the easier path, even if the end of that path is not good for any of us.
2025: A Space Absurdity
Space stunts might remain impressive for all time, but the likely destiny is that they become silly in the way so many impressive stunts have.
Crazy Town: Episode 112. Unsung Heroes: Sustainability Gurus Who Influenced the Crazy Town Worldview
Some key understandings in Crazy Town: the Earth is finite; the economy cannot grow forever; people can harm ecosystems and cause global warming; physics, chemistry, and biology are real; inequality hurts everyone; healthy humans need community, and it’s more fun to laugh than to cry. But where did principles like these originate?
What Sloths Teach Us About the Superorganism
Can we stand our ground locally against the global superorganism? How can we begin to reclaim agency and compassion – both for ourselves and the ecosystems we are inextricably a part of? Do our instincts no longer serve us in a world so rapidly and radically changed?
Review: The Climate Adaptation Generation by Robert W. Collin
Robert W. Collin’s The Climate Adaptation Generation is both a call to action and a guide for living in an age of climate disruption. The book presents a comprehensive program for not only surviving but thriving amid the ecological challenges ahead.
How Technology Shapes How We Move, Speak, and Think
From hands to feet, voice to vision, our digital tools extend, transform, and sometimes erase the human body.
C as in Capitalism and C as in Collapse
Capitalism interacts with almost all critical functions of society in such a way that it, together with modernity, defines current societies.
Regrowing the Forest of Poles
After 38 years, during July 18th and 19th, 2025, five new totem poles were raised in Ḵaachx̱ana.áakʼw (Wrangell, Alaska) while other communities were readying themselves to raise more.
