Neighbors helping neighbors: Building community work exchange networks
How the authors organized a “frolic”, reviving a tradition of shared labor that builds the trust and resilience communities need.
Chuck Collins
Amazon is deploying AI to spy on its workers and bust unions before they form
Internal company documents obtained by a Canadian labor board show how Amazon is tracking workers’ every move.
Notes from an old farmer: Revitalizing our rural communities
There is a new energy among our younger citizens to seek a more meaningful life in the country. Now is the time to take advantage of their new-found passion to live and work in a rural community.
How do we act when we don’t know if we’ll win? – Interview with writer Paul Loeb
Alexandria Shaner spoke with Paul Loeb about hope, organizing, and building power in dark times.
Why artificial intelligence must be stopped now
Humanity is outsourcing its executive control of nearly every key sector—finance, warfare, medicine, agriculture—to algorithms with no moral capacity. If you are wondering what could go wrong, the answer is plenty.
Academic prison: We are all trapped within the modernity pen – and academica offers no escape
Inspired by author Daniel Quinn’s Ishmael, I compare modernity to a prison whose bars few inmates can even detect. Academia is its own sort of prison.
‘Urban Greenlash’: Why is climate action facing opposition across cities?
In areas around the world, growing opposition to climate action signals a new disruptive wave that researchers call an “urban greenlash,” a backlash against climate plans and policies in cities.
Infrastructure, finance, and the sale of the future
Mitchell’s new book reinforces this essential point. We must see through the alibi of capital, we must reclaim society from the grip of the economy, and we must change the rules of the game to save our collective future.
Remembering Richard Heinberg: Why I made degrowth art in his memory
The messages and body of work that Richard leaves behind encourage us all to keep striving, creating, and living well within our planet’s limits.
‘Inner Degrowth’: An engineer on why the energy crisis and our inner emptiness are the same problem
Marcos Rupérez Cerqueda spent years as an engineer on green hydrogen projects in Spain, installing electrolysers and fuel cells, before the numbers made him stop believing in a technical fix. In this Q&A, he discusses this journey and his new book.
Make America go away…from the deep ocean
So, it’s time we Make America Go Away from the Deep Ocean. Yes, the MAGADO movement.
How an invasive weed could help Tucson rebuild from the ground up
An Arizona community’s plan to reuse an invasive weed to construct low-income housing shows that when we can’t pressure the top, we can rebuild from the bottom.
