Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Ecosystem Restoration Communities Staff Engaging and training people in ecological restoration lies at the core of our mission. That’s why we’re passionate about training and mobilising everyday people from across the globe to collect environmental data through citizen science.
Claims that existing (or augmented) patterns of urbanism are more pro-social and pro-nature than rural alternatives appeal to people’s contrarian nature. And since most people live in urban areas, especially in the rich countries, it also tells them what they want to hear…
Strong efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will also have striking beneficial side effects, including more peace and quiet. And that should be music to our ears.
When academics address reflexive social science questions, such as the gaslighting of society through propaganda, from the university, we are often told that we don’t want to alienate partners, like Shell Oil, from continuing funding us.
The first tribally hosted World Wilderness Congress that convened the last week of August, 2024, had an ambitious agenda—placing Indigenous knowledge at the center of global resolutions to protect biodiversity.
My hope is that the US and other countries will see the wisdom of fusing measures for transformative change with measures to address climate threats. The two should go forward hand in hand.
At its heart, Transition is about reimagining and reshaping our world, responding to big global challenges as well as those specific to our place, through local, practical, human-scale action, together with other people. It’s an antidote to feeling over-whelmed and under-powered in the face of the complex problems of our times.
Although there are limits to what groups engaging in disruptive action can control, the five factors of polarization provide guideposts for anticipating how a protest may be received and how they can work to shape this response.
Greenfield, Massachusetts’s Compost Co-op gives ex-inmates a living wage through meaningful work.
In this episode, Nate is joined by Professor Jeffrey Sachs to discuss the escalating tensions between the United States and other world powers – and whether there are possible avenues towards a more peaceful world order.
The Oil Kills uprising and fellow movements around the world have placed their bodies between those tankers and our shared future to say, “here, and no further.”
Human technologies have continued to evolve exponentially since the end of the Paleolithic: today we are using them to learn more about the past.
