The pollinator corridor project that’s transforming Melbourne’s streets
How an Australian grassroots project led by one determined resident is boosting habitat for native plants and wildlife one roadside garden at a time.
Helen Cushing
Ethiopia’s grand tree-planting plan to save its nearly eradicated forests
Efforts to restore lost forests often fail, but Ethiopians are betting big: planting billions of saplings to revive habitat, regenerate soil, and stabilize the land.
Designing land access with deep time in mind: Moving toward a timeless ethic of land stewardship
When we begin to act with deep time in mind, perhaps future generations will remember us not for what we took, but for what we tended, protected, and passed on.
The Guilford food hub: Growing community resilience one lemon bar at a time
How a small Vermont town built a thriving local food system that keeps $50,000 annually in the community while creating social connection.
Tax the rich and save the world
A movement to reshape the structure of taxation in the U.S. is gaining steam.
Trump’s pronatalist policy puts GDP growth before reproductive freedom
Trump clearly represents an unmitigated disaster for the steady state, with consequences that include rolling back decades of progress in gender equality, contraceptive access, and the lower birth rates that result.
Walkability is not just about walking
Walkable cities are places that do best what cities are meant to do: contain and display human life with all of its variety, tension, diversity, struggle and beauty.
Stories on the Edge: On the front lines of climate-driven water scarcity in Morocco
In recent years, Agadir, Morocco, has become a focal point for discussions on climate resilience and adaptation. In a recent episode of The Stories on the Edge podcast, hosts Veronica and Nigel spoke with Zach Oulad, an urban data expert and local official, who discussed the urgent need for community adaptation and innovative policies.
Data centers have exposed big tech’s trust deficit
Americans used the products for twenty years without trusting the companies. A data center is the first thing they could vote on.
Private property is losing its moral legitimacy
The centrality of property to political economy is a metaphysical error, institutionalized forgetting, spawning violence and uncountable injury.
Why we need to think outside the box this election
Defending the upcoming election from authoritarian capture will require massive turnout, and we all have roles to play.
AI and Ecocivilization: The threats of AI to human flourishing are multiple and profound
The danger AI poses can be understood as an extrapolation of the disruptions we’re already experiencing from Big Tech’s stranglehold over our lives.
