Can Humanity Repair Its Relationship With Nature? Weaving Earth Education Center Offers a Promising Path
This all-ages education center reminds us that “we are a part of this earth, not apart from it.”
Damon Orion
From Argentina with Love, and Rage
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 true power of the Green Party is now: to admit our own powerlessness to ‘save the world’
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.
“Parable of the Sower” Is Now, Says Gen Z
Young people who have read Octavia Butler’s 1993 novel say it’s not only prescient, but also carries lessons for today.
Last Week’s Tech Meltdown Is a Wake-Up Call
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.
Marburg Food Dialogue – Putting more regional produce on the menu
How can restaurants serve more regional produce? A networking event at the Creativity and Social Innovation Hub Marburg (CIM) brought together local restaurant operators, suppliers, civil society actors and employees of the city and district to discuss this question
Coastal Restoration: Saving Sand
Increasing demand for this seemingly abundant and common material harms human and natural communities — and fuels a lucrative and dangerous illegal industry.
The Reality Party
Following the attempted assassination of former United States President Donald J. Trump, Nate reflects on the dysfunctional social dynamics which have brought many of us to high levels of tribalism and mistrust toward others and divorced from the deeper challenges facing us in coming decades.
West Philly Porchfest: The Battle for Car-Free Streets and Community Celebration
I first found myself in West Philadelphia in 2019 during Porchfest, an annual music festival that exists because approximately two square miles of Philadelphians collectively decide it should. And so it does, whether the city grants the annually requested street closures or not.
5 Ways Permaculture Must Change
For permaculture to meet its potential, I believe these things must change. This list isn’t meant to be comprehensive. It’s just five things that I tend to notice often.
And Then What?: Using Wide-Boundary Lenses
Today’s Frankly offers a series of examples of modern issues using a “wide-boundary” lens – and in the process demonstrates the importance of asking “…and then what?” when thinking about our responses to future events and constraints.
MM #6: Accidental Tourists
Yes, we’re in mid-air right now and it’s really amazing and we can point to a lot of associated perks (for humans alone, in the short term, importantly). But, if it’s unsustainable then it is by definition going to fail. What evidence might possibly bolster the case that our current path is at all ecologically sustainable?
