Is Being “Punk as F*ck” Really Where it’s At?
If we have to be “punk as f*ck” to be part of this revolution, then many people I know doing phenomenal things wouldn’t be able to take part. And that’s a shame.
Society
Tapping the Power of Place to Keep Us All Healthy
One number stands above all others as the best indicator of good health. It’s not your blood pressure, cholesterol level, average daily calories or even the age at which your grandparents die. It’s your zip code. This fact has sent shockwaves across the county. The chief aspiration of American democracy is that everyone deserves an … Read more
Make Connections, Make Food
Seventeen simple sayings for scholar-activists.
“Whose Streets, Our Streets”: Democracy Still Lives in Public Spaces
Regardless of how you feel about the 2016 U.S. election results, one thing is clear: public spaces are doing their job.
Hearing More About Climate Change
Why is there a big gap between Americans’ stated interest in global warming and our discourse about it?
Indigenous Rights and the Fight for Life at Standing Rock
With the announcement that the Dakota Access Pipeline will be re-routed, the water protectors at Standing Rock might have won a battle but they have not yet won the war.
Water Song: Indigenous Women and Water
Water is life and needs to be respected. For the Indigenous people in Canada, there is a reciprocal and unique relationship with water.
An Act of Remembrance
With Vince Guaraldi in the background, we wrote and addressed our annual Christmas cards last night. An old-fashioned exercise that echoes in our warm kitchen with news of the past year.
From Oil Age to Soil Age
To put it another way: modern citizens today use more energy and physical resources in a month than our great-grandparents used during their whole lifetime.
Growthism
Of course we all know at some level what a “healthy shopping season” is really healthy for: the economy–that thing, that thing which giveth, it is true, but also taketh away, and is still the only game in town.
The post-fact world and the need for a new consensus
Debate is no longer a means to find the truth by testing ideas against the questions and criticisms of other, it is mostly propaganda designed to win no matter what the truth is.
How Two Tribal Women Are Fighting to Protect the Arctic From Oil Drilling
The Gwich’in people of Alaska and Northern Canada have fought for three decades to protect the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil drilling and other threats.
