Fossil-fueled Republicanism
Pop the champagne corks in Washington! It’s party time for Big Energy. In the wake of the midterm elections, Republican energy hawks are ascendant, having taken the Senate and House by storm.
Society
Learning from Icarus
What if Icarus’ father—knowing his son would fly too close to the sun—had made the wings he designed more resilient?
Want to See How Governments Are Making Real Progress? Look to the Cities Tackling Our Biggest Problems
If you’ve been looking to the federal government for action on big challenges such as poverty, climate change, and immigration, this has been a devastating decade…a more hopeful story is unfolding. Cities are taking action.
Facts, Values, and Dark Beer
The notion that life has to justify itself to me seems, if I may be frank, faintly silly, and so does the comparable claim that I have to justify my existence to it, or to anyone else.
“They Teach People Ignorance”
Remember there are just two classes of people—there are the ruling class and the ruled class.
How to Start a Bike Kitchen
A bike kitchen is a place for people to repair their bikes, learn safe cycling, make bicycling more accessible, build community, and support sustainable transportation by getting more people on bikes.
Walking is Going Places
Humans’ most common pastime–forsaken for decades as too slow and too much effort– is now recognized as a health breakthrough, an economic catalyst and a route to happiness.
Review: Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything
We are all striving to create communities that create more life, rather than destroy it.
Cultivating Progress with Paul Hawken
Hear Paul discuss corporate social responsibility, the evolution of the open-source and sharing economy movements, and how communication technology has transformed global human interaction.
Resilience Roundup – Nov 14
A roundup of the news, views and ideas from the main stream press and the blogosphere.
A brief history of contemporary “consumerism” and anti-consumerism
History books usually study social movements of the second half of the nineteenth century from the point of view of the split between anarchists and Marxists.
“Sweet Rebellion”: Reclaiming India’s Streets with Raahgiri Day
Inspired by Ciclovia, a weekly open street event in Bogota, Colombia, Raahgiri day has provided momentum for the ever-increasing Streets as Places movement.
