Finding a lever for civilizational transformation
From Indigenous-led governance to worker-owned cooperatives, scattered experiments may offer a blueprint for a pathway out of our global predicament.
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Crazy Town: Episode 128. Gaslit by the Four Horsemen: Maddening Signs of the Apocalypse
With the churn of daily news growing more apocalyptic by the headline, and with earth scientists competing ferociously for the title of “gloomiest doomer,” it’s time for some fun (or at least making fun) with a new fantasy-football-style draft.
The economic path ahead: Four practical strategies for surviving the future
In this post, former teacher and researcher Chris Smaje reflects on the practical skills, relationships and forms of exchange he believes will be needed to navigate collapse.
‘Catabolic Capitalism’: How capitalism profits from collapse
From climate disasters to housing shortages, the system finds new ways to extract value from crisis. In this essay, author Craig Collins argues that modern capitalism is no longer built to expand prosperity, but to monetize collapse.
Mindset and worldviews shifts for a regenerative future
In this excerpt from the Seeds Series Volume 2, interviewees argue that deeper shifts in consciousness, economics and governance are needed to confront the polycrisis.
How to Think About the Future – Part 3: Uphill futures in a downhill world
Nate builds a framework for understanding the pathways that connect today’s choices to tomorrow’s realities. Drawing from biology, ecology, history, and systems thinking, he introduces a civilizational terrain of ridges and valleys that is constantly shifting as we are moving through it.
Most of the world’s wealth belongs to all of us. It’s time to start collecting
As extreme inequality worsens and AI concentrates wealth into the hands of a small elite, insisting that the wealth generated by our collective inheritance be shared with all its rightful beneficiaries is not so much a political position as a moral imperative.
Climate diplomacy glossary: Learn the lingo of international climate talks with this handy reference guide
UN climate diplomacy can be hard to follow. This glossary explains the key terms, groups and forums shaping the talks.
The most appropriate response to falling birthrates? Embrace them
As governments push costly pronatalist schemes to boost birthrates, the real solution, argues Nandita Bajaj, is to embrace declining fertility, expand women’s reproductive agency, and redesign economies for equity and ecological survival.
How local communities are challenging Big Tech data centers
As the race to build data centers across the United States accelerates, local governments worry that the tech industry mantra of “move fast and break things” puts their communities at risk of being broken, and Americans are responding to this moment with the power of their voices and votes.
World Localization Day: Helena Norberg-Hodge on rebuilding local economies
In honor of World Localization Day, Helena Norberg-Hodge, founder of Local Futures and pioneer of the Localization movement, reflects on decades of work as an activist and the dangers that global, deregulated corporations pose to the global economy and the environmental movement.
How to end capitalism – and build a kind, green, cooperative economy. Cont’d
From climate policy to housing and trade, in this piece, author Guy Dauncey imagines how to dismantle capitalism and replace it with a greener, more cooperative alternative for everyone, including nature.
