Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Adem Ay After a historic referendum, Ecuador’s government had a year to stop drilling oil in a protected part of the Amazon. Now the deadline has passed, but the oil still flows. Behind the inaction is a story of corruption, murder, social breakdown, and tenacious activists who want the world to know about it.
Does this plastic orgy simply continue until we’re all reproductively compromised and the problem solves itself? Or is there a solution to the plastic world we’re entombing ourselves in?
Resilience is not measured by wealth and access to power alone. It is often, perhaps even more so, calculated by the culture, strength, and community of a people.
Education for Degrowth involves the co-creation of educational processes and systems that harmonise and interact with the ever-changing socio-economic and ecological context, which is in line with an eco-social philosophical approach to education.
We have the option to utterly divest, and build CARE based opportunities outside the current system. Which is what CARE-HOME-FARM is. It’s a model, which we hope to test and explore in real life, for an inter-sufficient community.
As Jackson’s traditional ecological knowledge tells him, this is the kind of growth the landscape will see again as the Cow Creek Umpqua manage fire for open and clear savannas, benefiting the land and people there for generations to come.
To inspire hope that ordinary people such as ourselves can bring about meaningful change, I’ve included brief snapshots below of some of the largest and most successful systems-changing strategies I know. Because these kinds of stories are not often reported on in the mainstream media, we need to do everything in our power to get them out as far and wide as possible.
For communities, preparing for these future risks requires learning from past floods but also recognizing that future storms may produce flooding that goes beyond the scale of anything seen before.
Due to editorial holiday, there will be very light posting between Friday, 27th September and Monday, 14th October. Regular posting will resume on Tuesday, 15th October.
In this episode, Nate is joined by social philosopher Roman Krznaric to discuss ways we might govern or lead during moments of crisis, using the lens of former and current civilizations.
Art is not a cheap alternative to an advertising agency or a sophisticated extension of the communications department, and the urgency of the message doesn’t change this
In today’s Frankly, Nate reflects on 7 key aspects of our socio-economic system which are in decline, with a main focus on the pager implication for globalization.
