Walkability is not just about walking
Walkable cities are places that do best what cities are meant to do: contain and display human life with all of its variety, tension, diversity, struggle and beauty.
Tiffany Owens
Stories on the Edge: On the front lines of climate-driven water scarcity in Morocco
In recent years, Agadir, Morocco, has become a focal point for discussions on climate resilience and adaptation. In a recent episode of The Stories on the Edge podcast, hosts Veronica and Nigel spoke with Zach Oulad, an urban data expert and local official, who discussed the urgent need for community adaptation and innovative policies.
Data centers have exposed big tech’s trust deficit
Americans used the products for twenty years without trusting the companies. A data center is the first thing they could vote on.
Private property is losing its moral legitimacy
The centrality of property to political economy is a metaphysical error, institutionalized forgetting, spawning violence and uncountable injury.
Why we need to think outside the box this election
Defending the upcoming election from authoritarian capture will require massive turnout, and we all have roles to play.
AI and Ecocivilization: The threats of AI to human flourishing are multiple and profound
The danger AI poses can be understood as an extrapolation of the disruptions we’re already experiencing from Big Tech’s stranglehold over our lives.
Neighbors helping neighbors: Building community work exchange networks
How the authors organized a “frolic”, reviving a tradition of shared labor that builds the trust and resilience communities need.
Amazon is deploying AI to spy on its workers and bust unions before they form
Internal company documents obtained by a Canadian labor board show how Amazon is tracking workers’ every move.
Notes from an old farmer: Revitalizing our rural communities
There is a new energy among our younger citizens to seek a more meaningful life in the country. Now is the time to take advantage of their new-found passion to live and work in a rural community.
How do we act when we don’t know if we’ll win? – Interview with writer Paul Loeb
Alexandria Shaner spoke with Paul Loeb about hope, organizing, and building power in dark times.
Why artificial intelligence must be stopped now
Humanity is outsourcing its executive control of nearly every key sector—finance, warfare, medicine, agriculture—to algorithms with no moral capacity. If you are wondering what could go wrong, the answer is plenty.
Academic prison: We are all trapped within the modernity pen – and academica offers no escape
Inspired by author Daniel Quinn’s Ishmael, I compare modernity to a prison whose bars few inmates can even detect. Academia is its own sort of prison.
