Beyond crisis
We don’t have simple answers where we can just say, right, ‘That’s what we need to do’. So we need to do things locally, individually, in community from the grassroots.
Katja Durrani
The Quadruple Bifurcation
In this week’s Frankly, Nate outlines four bifurcations that are likely to underpin the human experience in the near future.
Regenerative Economics: Excerpt
It is our task, now, to bring our economic system into alignment with the regenerative process. When we do, like turning a canoe downstream after a long struggle against the current, our journey will be lightened, our destination assured.
Terror Management Theory: How Existential Dread Has Shaped the World
In this episode, Nate is joined by Sheldon Solomon, a psychologist and co-developer of Terror Management Theory, which posits that while all living beings strive to survive, humans are unique in knowing that death is unavoidable.
Co-Creating An African Peace Village in Portugal
The African Peace Village is envisioned as a place to host gatherings, workshops, and retreats — where people come to recover their sense of belonging, exchange knowledge on food consciousness, mental health and experiment with new economic and educational paradigms. Once developed, the blueprint could be replicated and adapted to local contexts across the world.
The Future is Local and Female: Reflections from the Planet Local Summit
In Ladakh, we learned that localisation looks a million different ways and sings in a thousand different keys, but it always gives back more than it takes and is humble enough to listen.
Major American LNG Exporters Habitually Break Air Pollution Laws, Report Finds
During the past five years, all seven of the fully operational LNG export terminals in the U.S. violated the Clean Air Act, America’s cornerstone law on air pollution, a new report from the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) finds.
Trump killed a crucial disaster database. This nonprofit just saved it.
As the Trump administration deletes climate data and shutters resources that track the impacts of a warming world, nonprofits, state-level governments, and independent scientists are rushing to preserve the information. Last week, Climate Central resurrected one of the most prominent of those lost records: the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s billion-dollar disaster database.
“I Am Zanskar”: An interview with filmmaker Lobzang Wangtak
Wangtak shares the inspiration behind the film, the community-led water conservation efforts in the region, and his dreams for a future where tourism can co-exist with conservation and preservation of the ecology and cultural traditions of Zanskar.
Minority influence: how can degrowth step up?
A debate is in progress between alternative strategy prescriptions for degrowth: ecosocialism vs. horizontalism.
The Silent Ecocide: Ukraine’s Wildlife on the Frontlines
What unfolds today across Ukrainian land is not just warfare; it is environmental devastation that will leave Europe’s biodiversity scarred for generations.
The New Nuclear Fever, Debunked
An honest and imperfect response to the climate crisis would require a political, behavioural, economic and moral transition that would systematically reduce our energy and material consumption at an unprecedented pace. But that’s not an action any modern politician seems to be able to contemplate, let alone discuss.
