Ishmael: Chapter 5
According to the beginning and middle parts of the story, humans have arrived on the planet and are ready to fulfill their destiny: the conquest is in full swing. So: how does it end?
Society
Appalachia, Country Music, and American Politics
We have much cause to worry but neither comfort nor clarity will come if we fixate on widening polarization, Constitutional crises, or warring cultures. Those maladies are symptoms of a more profound distress.
Six Reasons for Communitarian Living
Cobb Hill isn’t the only way to find these six things, thank goodness. You’ll find them in smaller groups and larger ones, in cities, in the tropics, on the coast. In this time of transition and reflection in my own family, I hope that knowing they exist in one place might make it easier for you to imagine (or create) them elsewhere, too.
The Psychological Effects of Climate Change: The Scientific Explanations — and Solutions That Can Empower Your Mind
Whether we’re talking about climate change, civil rights, politics, or anything else, you control the mediums you expose yourself to. Use your critical thinking, set limits and boundaries, resist the manipulation of media.
Reading (UK) – A Town in Transition, and Local Community Resilience
Transition needs local people to get involved, lots of us – we can all help to build the story of our future, then act together to make it real. We do this for ourselves, for our children, and for our children’s children, who will inherit our Earth.
Ishmael: Chapter 4
One cannot consider it to be factual, in any way, that humans were made to rule the Earth. That’s a complete fabrication.
When Government Works
I think of the motto of the French revolution: liberté, égalité, fraternité, but especially the word fraternity—which meant that everyone was united, everyone was together in the struggle. The best possible interactions with neighbors, or with the government, are predicated on the understanding that we are all in this together.
This is what democracy looks like
Ours is a relational world, not a world of billiard balls knocking into one another trying to gain advantage. The space between things or people isn’t empty, it’s full of something invisible to the eye, yet viscous and buoyant, a carrier wave that we can sweeten with our thoughts and feelings.
Internet Grief: Where the island meets the metaverse
As an 8 year-old, the author received her first exposure to the online world. As an adult, she reflects on what it took from her.
Crapitalism: Psychoanalysis and the Profit Motive
Moving from cultures of greed to cultures of gratitude requires institutional change, but it also requires that we look inwards, gently put our infantile wishes to bed, and wake up to this rich earth, with its soils made healthy by shit and decay.
Ishmael: Chapter 3
Indeed, we speak of our planet, our environment, and even our wildlife. That’s what mythology looks like: not facts, but an interpretive wrapping.
Kristine Tompkins — Rewilding 15 Million Acres: Why True Wealth Means More Than Money
Today Nate is joined by conservationist Kristine Tompkins, to discuss her decades of work on conservation initiatives in South America, the value of personal responsibility, and how she has cultivated a way of living without fear in taking on unprecedented environmental challenges.
