Growth mania is fueling dangerous advances in AI – and its existential risks
AI risk represents the apex of growth mania, where a few tech elites gamble with humanity’s future.
Society
Tribes of the Klamath Basin show us how to heal a river
With the tenacity of salmon swimming home, Un-dam the Klamath is liberating their river before our eyes.
Confronting climate failure: How we dig ourselves out of the climate-catastrophe hole – Part 2
Humanity has dug itself into a hole. The first step to digging ourselves out is to acknowledge the depth of our civilizational failure.
We evolved to cooperate. So how did we create unequal societies?
For all our flaws, we evolved toward community and cooperation. Toward enough. Yet somehow, we got Egypt. What happened between ten and five thousand years ago that made this possible?
Healing the earth, one community at a time: Highlighting ERC’s global impact
Eight years ago, the Ecosystem Restoration Communities movement began with a simple but powerful belief: that everyday people everywhere could restore the land and, in doing so, restore hope for our shared future.
The real story behind immigration, work, and power
Why people migrate, who profits from division, and how working people can build power together.
Navigating the currents of change: A conversation with Indigenous activist Sammy Gensaw III
In this Q&A, Sammy Gensaw III discusses the intricacies of the Klamath River, the challenges posed by dam infrastructure, and the transformative power of grassroots activism.
Crazy Town: Episode 132. Finding Crazy Town Part 4: The Myth of Progress – Are We There Yet?
What if the story we tell ourselves about progress is wrong?
Are people really having fewer kids than they want?
How pronatalist misinformation fuels low-fertility alarmism.
On the life of Wendell Berry
In an age of brutal philosophies, shrieking media, cold arts, lying politicians, and devouring institutions, Wendell Berry was a hero of an entirely human way of being.
Preserving labor history in the present, for the future
Labor activists take steps to preserve the documents and strategies they use today, so future organizers will have a practical guide.
Unions have been down before, history shows how they can come back
Two ways we can honor unions at this time of trial are to ask others to join union picket lines and to learn from their innovations and successes for whatever campaigns we are committed to today.
