From Plato to AI: Are we losing our minds?
Each step in human evolution has brought inventions that threaten to weaken our innate abilities.
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A Vision for Sustainable Community Consciousness
Understanding how the root causes of our existential crisis lie in our behaviors, our individual and social behaviors, we can move to address the all-important role of culture in the creation and maintenance of sustainable communities.
The Prosumer Economy: Embracing Posthumanism for a Regenerative Future
By integrating the practical framework of the prosumer economy with the philosophical insights of posthumanism, we can begin to build an economic system that respects the interconnectedness of all life forms and promotes ecological and social justice — an integrated approach that can help us navigate the complex challenges of our time.
Getting Off the Sidelines: Climate Activism and Civil Disobedience with Peter Kalmus
Climate scientist and activist Peter Kalmus sits for an interview with Post Carbon Institute’s program director, Rob Dietz. Peter covers how his scientific understanding has changed his life, explores the difference between climate anxiety and climate grief, discusses the ins and outs of civil disobedience and getting arrested, and describes a hopeful pathway for responding to the climate emergency.
What the H5N1 scare tells us about ourselves and our society
I don’t know whether there is an H5N1 “bird flu” pandemic in our future. We humans think we can build moats around our modern way of life that protect us from the natural world. All the while we have actually been building the equivalent of superhighways into the heart of human society everywhere due to our dense living arrangements and global travel and trade.
Sustainable Food Systems | Feeding Ourselves Across Europe
Local communities in rural and urban areas are leading on the transformation of local and regional food systems, even when policies and politics at national and EU levels fall way short.
Too Legit to Quit: Rethinking Legitimacy of Territorial Claims
Eradicating colonization is not a matter of granting sovereignty to native populations, it is a matter of eradicating the right to exclude that comes with European sovereignty, getting rid of legitimate territorial claims altogether.
Not Every Farmer Wants to “Get Big or Get Out”
As land ownership continues to consolidate into fewer and wealthier hands, some small farmers vow to stay in place.
Rewilding Ireland: ‘Undoing the damage’ from a history of deforestation
Eoghan Daltun joins the Mongabay Newscast to share his story and rewilding insights, which are detailed in his book, An Irish Atlantic Rainforest: A Personal Journey Into the Magic of Rewilding.
Why Ecosystems Need Healthy Populations of Apex Predators to Be Restored
Wolves benefit the entire ecosystem they inhabit. So why hunt them?
On this Social Network, Sea Ice, Traditional Foods, and Wildlife Are Always Trending
Using an app developed by Inuit in Nunavut, Indigenous communities from Alaska to Greenland are harnessing data to make their own decisions.
Intergenerational dialogue toward the Sustainable Development Goals in Hakusan Biosphere Reserve, Japan
I leave this trip with a new appreciation for the complex entanglement of Nature and culture, and the ways in which the UNESCO-Man and the Biosphere programme seeks to forward efforts to adapt to a changing world.