Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Patrick Mazza We don’t have any certainty about the future, but we can be certain the way to address anything that is coming is through community. And the natural place to start, the one that is most available, is the communities where we live. We must build the future in place.
It’s worrying about the electric bill with all those lights on. It’s having a light strand die and not wanting to spend money to replace it. A lot of money… It’s maybe even a bit of disengagement with this holiday season. Why bother making a fuss over it…
In the territory of Vojvodina, Serbia, farmers and young people are stepping up to care for the soil. “Guardians of Soil Health” is a citizen science project that teaches participants how to monitor key indicators of soil health, such as organic matter decomposition, pH value, moisture, structure, texture, and microbial activity.
In this week’s episode, Nate unpacks the pervasive behavioral pull of sunk cost as a force shaping our material reality, identities, and collective expectations about the future.
In this eighth article on the collapse theme I turn to how to build trust, how to regulate access to resources, how to manage society at large and how to organise distribution and exchange.
As the severity of human impacts to ocean life rises, however, so have a variety of adaptations combining scientific research, education, mitigation, awareness, and restoration of the incredible life harbored in the wildly diverse coral reefs across the planet. The following interview with Dr. Ewout Knoester of Reefolution.org provides merely a brief introduction into the amazing work in reef restoration and community building by their initiative.
Dear friends and fellow Transitioners, I hope you’ll join me today in celebrating the launch of Transition Network International’s first-ever “evergreen” course, Transition Launch Training! This self-paced and self-directed online version of our most popular training is now available for anyone, anywhere, to take for free at any time.
In this episode, Nate is joined by climate philanthropist Kelly Erhart to discuss the urgent state of climate science and emerging response strategies beyond traditional mitigation and adaptation.
The world does not ask us to fill its emptiness. It asks us to notice that it has been full all along and to act with the respect that such fullness deserves.
I want all the outraged folks to learn from this. Walk away now. In fact, run. Do whatever you can within your community to pull all your needs within that small boundary. This benefits your community as well as you, building strength and resilience in your place and creating networks of reciprocity
It is easy to say things such as “we must take care of nature” or “humans must respect all other organisms” or even “we are no better/have no more right to exist than frogs/deer/bugs”. But what does it mean?
In the dualist view, because we possess a mind—and a superior one, at that—we still privilege ourselves as special and separate. In other words, the destructive consequences of dualism stem more from the mind/matter split than from which beings are included in the (still hierarchical) club.
