Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Greg Harman Gathering in the last week of August in the Black Hills of South Dakota, or Hé Sapa in Lakota, speakers and organizers of the 12th convening of the World Wilderness Congress say the extinction crisis is intrinsically tied to both the dispossession of Indigenous peoples and the rising heat generated by the burning of fossil fuels.
In our own ways we embody the past and determine the future, having an incredible heritage as well as an obligation to seek our greatest joy of fulfillment through action with other humans and nonhuman nature in pursuit of life fulfillment for all.
My research focuses on the economic and environmental costs and benefits of producing electricity. Here’s how the clean energy transition is changing the role of peaker plants and some other options for keeping the lights on during peak demand periods.
The herring do not have voices. That’s why people like Khasheechtlaa Louise Brady and the Herring Protectors must speak for them.
This book is a fluid path from an idea, along a stream bed whose variations, detours and eddies are unknown until the water that flows into it finds itself moved.
Landscapes and gardens are not an argument to be won but a set of spaces that can stir the senses and spark a larger conversation.
We want positive growth, which first requires an end to global warming and attention to other on-coming ecological crises.
From a society-wide perspective, a new consciousness a involves major cultural change and a reorientation of what society values and prizes most highly.
The farm shop taking the lead on Jan Gonne’s farm could indeed be his lucky punch – if island tourism and the currently only alternative to the supermarket stay profitable.
In the West, we would do well to consider places like Brazil in developing a strategy to start down the path to ending homelessness here and we would do well to consider the power of the 8 to 11 million unhoused people who know what they need and are finally beginning to organize for their future.
Only when we leave cartoonish barter villages to the world of fiction and embrace money as a social agreement will we truly make money work for us.
The way popular understandings of economics shape our ability to accurately perceive the role of government in the fracking boom is an extremely complex and nuanced problem. The small facet I attempt to tackle here is the role of our belief in the free market.
