Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Bart Hawkins Kreps Traffic engineers will need to focus more on accessibility, and less on mobility. As Lewis Mumford wrote in 1963, in one of Marshall’s favourite quotes, “A good transportation system minimizes unnecessary transportation.”
‘Now is the time and we are the people. We’re being pushed over the edge of extinction by people who don’t get it and don’t care and we—’ she surged to her feet— ‘we are better than this.’ A hand slammed hard with each word. ‘So let’s bring the best of ourselves to the table, agree where we want to go and find ways to make it happen. Thank you.’
This week, Casey Camp-Horinek of the Ponca Nation joins Nate to recount her decades of work in Indigenous and environmental activism. Her stories shed light on the often-overlooked struggles and tragedies faced by Indigenous communities in their efforts to restore and safeguard their homelands.
I stress again that we are not separate from, above, or transcendent beyond our extended living family. That seems to be the default and utterly foolish notion pervading our culture, based on a brief fireworks show of excessive and unsustainable inheritance-spending that is in the process of setting up catastrophic failure—and for more than just humans.
Urbánika is an international collective of tech commoners that calls itself an “immersive activism school.” Led by Humberto Besso-Oberto Huerta of Mexico, the group wants to help build peer-governed, climate-resilient smart cities and communities, especially in Latin America.
GEM’s annual “Pedal to the Metal” report reveals that 93% of new steelmaking capacity announced thus far in 2024 promises to use lower emission electric arc furnaces (EAFs).
As a small research team of activists, practitioners and early career researchers participating in the British Council Farming for Climate Justice Programme we set out to learn more about the potential role of farmer-led and community-saved seeds in realising just climate resilience.
This all-ages education center reminds us that “we are a part of this earth, not apart from it.”
We know that we depend on ecosystems being healthy for our survival, and yet must remember that part of healthy ecology is also dependent on being more united as we protect all that we love to move forward and ensure a livable future.
The ultimate reason to put more Greens in power as fast as possible is because we are the ones best placed to help this country (and others) struggle through the terrible, unknown impacts beyond 1.5 that are coming — and precisely because we are the ones brave enough to tell this whole truth, even at the cost of no longer being able to pose as electorally-deliverable saviours.
Young people who have read Octavia Butler’s 1993 novel say it’s not only prescient, but also carries lessons for today.
Citizens, for example, can make their homes and families more robust by subtracting the majority of digital devices monopolizing their attention and degrading their humanity.
