Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Aaron Karp Changing how we live and transforming our societies can feel impossible, but that shouldn’t be surprising when the ethical beliefs that shape us are so rarely subject to scrutiny or discussion. What if we build a social movement that pulls growing numbers of people out of those habits of passivity and helps us cultivate our moral agency?
The way we do business and the way we live our lives is ingrained in a growth at all costs mindset. But that “cost” is the very systems that keep us alive. Finance can follow this new path. We believe it must.
Everywhere, it’s necessary to pay attention, to get to know the neighborhood and its denizens, the non-human citizens whose families probably have been living there longer than you maybe have been alive. To learn the lay of the land—literally.
Pretty much the last nail in the coffin for the idea that there’s going to be a smooth transition out of fossil fuels and into renewables that can rescue the existing high-energy global economy in anything like its present form comes courtesy of Jean-Baptiste Fressoz and his 2024 book More and More and More: An All-Consuming History of Energy.
Chickens are smart, emotional animals. They can decimate local insect populations, but they are resilient and courageous. They deserve our respect.
Today, Nate is joined by neuroscientist and best-selling author, Maren Urner, to discuss the critical role of journalism in democracy, the importance of rebuilding trust in media, and how neuroscience can inform our understanding of media consumption.
But even in these polarized times, people are rising to the great environmental and moral challenges before us. In the pages of Resilience Matters, they show us how to build a greener, fairer future together.
As long as we prioritize human well-being to the exclusion of the rest of the community of life, we make ourselves enemies of life.
In this talk, Duncan will survey how cities are engaging with carbon removal – reviewing the realistic scope of possibilities such as carbon negative building materials, and carbon removal through urban waste management; and suggest ways in which urban carbon removal could be governed to contribute to goals of justice and sustainability.
We’re back with Martino Newcombe in the West of Ireland, where he reflects on a winter’s day of planting a shelter belt of native tree species. Not on his farm, but on that of his neighbour, a retired farmer, with the help of another neighbour – echoing the traditional Irish practice of helping each other out that is known as “meitheal”.
Maybe the greatest antidote to the crises we face isn’t only policy change or protest—it’s reweaving our sense of self into the fabric of the natural world.
Imagine a Europe that stops measuring its virtue by comparison and starts measuring it by consequence. That actually asks “Who do we harm? And how do we stop?” That does not seek to escape its past, but commits to repairing its present.
