Busy doing the wrong things
But: I suspect that the only way for the Post Office to regain trust is to do this: to become a mutual, with proper public objectives about serving our communities. To be a proper Guardian, in other words.
Andrew Curry
Eating Like the Ancestors
Cassadore’s efforts are part of a much larger Tribal Food Sovereignty movement among the numerous Tribal Nations in the United States. And she and her people are healthier for it.
We Built the Technosphere. Now We Must Resist It
Why does so cold and metallic a word as technosphere define our present condition? What control do humans really have over this mega-construct of our own making? For each individual enmeshed, what can and should be our response?
The Green Mafia
Such activism threatens only to expose the truth and mobilize demand for real change. This is the great crime of the Green Mafia against the henchmen of extinction.
Free Will: Good Riddance
It’s okay to let go of the free will illusion. Nothing big changes. The universe will not stop. Just breathe.
Crazy Town Bonus: New Year’s Dissolutions
Asher, Jason, and Rob reflect on 2023 – a year filled to the brim with Crazy Townisms like the COP climate conference being held in Dubai, an anti-aging nutbag who parasitizes his own son, and the hijinks of the world’s dumbest billionaires.
Bullying your workers and ‘defending the brand’
It takes a certain type of corporate culture to keep on doing things in the face of mounting evidence that they are the wrong things to do. A corporate culture, in other words, with “no reasonable doubt”, in the memorable phrase of the management academic Charles Handy.
Let’s Talk About Food! The UK Project Starting National Conversations
“Has anybody ever asked you what you really think about food?” So began a new initiative, the National Conversation About Food, that seeks to find out how people on the ground would like to see food systems improved.
Friction is growing
We’re reaching the point where the climate crisis slows the machine.
Embracing The Values Of Sustainable And Democratic Societies (Part 1)
Our society’s problem-solving capacity is stunted when so few citizens have a goal/ethos/metaphor as a north star for their value system, and we end up missing out on a major part of our identity when our ethics fail to extend into the collective realm.
Climate Change and Energy Transition: The 2023 Scorecard
The numbers are in, and it doesn’t look good.
Antarctica’s Looming Threat
The threat of invasive species is only one of the mounting pressures facing Antarctic wildlife, including warming waters, melting sea ice, ocean acidification and pollution. But broad conservation actions, like increasing marine protected areas, could help on all fronts.
