Learning to unlearn our baneful relationship with the natural world
How did we, as children, come to believe that banana spiders were ours to capture and kill? We thought nothing of the welfare of the insects.
Marie Scatena
Trust is climate infrastructure: What Mauritius teaches us about building truly resilient communities
Communities that trust their institutions are more willing to participate, collaborate, adapt, and recover. Communities that do not trust them remain vulnerable, regardless of how much climate finance is mobilised.
9,000-acre nuclear-powered data center proposed on public lands in Utah
The facility calls for 456 small nuclear reactors, nuclear fuel production and nuclear waste storage. On the same day it surfaced, Sen. Ron Wyden introduced legislation that would ban new data centers.
Unordinary Interventions: How to plant seeds for a better future
What can one person actually do about the metacrisis? In this week’s Frankly, Nate explicitly outlines just a few of the countless actions we can take to actually change what’s coming.
How the pursuit of science also serves modernity
Much of science is in the service of modernity, producing remarkable short-term advantages for humans generally at the expense of the rest of the community of life.
Navigating the great unraveling: How communities are building place‑based resilience
How can we prepare for a disrupted future? The growing frequency and variety of global disruptions raise the question of how communities can prepare.
Oil, war and the fate of industrial societies
The world teeters on the brink of economic disaster due to energy shortages caused by war. Key oil-producing nations are unable and unwilling to increase output, though prices are high. The solutions being proposed—renewable energy technologies—are coming on line, but not fast enough. Sound familiar?
Hope in a time of democratic decline
Two major reports released this year tell a grim story: Global freedom continues to decline and the US has lost its longstanding classification a liberal democracy. But hope lies in the data.
Does your neighborhood need a coffee klatch?
How a tiny town in Vermont turned a simple weekly gathering into the social glue holding a neighborhood together.
‘The countryside cannot be made a sacrifice zone for the city’: Coming home to part-time farming – book excerpt
Cities cannot feed themselves, thus people who live in cities will be forever detached from the problems that come with extracting the resources they depend on and producing the food they eat.
Earthy Governance: How to learn about democracy from Indigenous Peoples
The nation-state model sustains itself on the logic that nature – and colonized peoples – are things to be conquered, assimilated, dominated, and exploited. It’s time for an Earth-centered form of governance.
Robert Jensen argues that ‘fewer and less’ is unavoidable. But the future is not fixed
It is true that no high-energy society has ever halved its material throughput and existed at that level across generations. But an absent precedent for an unprecedented situation merely tells us the situation is new, not what people will do.
