Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Tom Llewellyn 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.
Perhaps more of us can look for the joyfully modest people in our lives, learning what we can from them instead of from the malignantly selfish, algorithm-drive madness running rampant today. That seems like genuine progress, however slowly it is made.
The story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden is known around the world. Why does it have such sticking power?
The Trump administration’s border policies are expected to have a big impact on this year’s largest gathering of Indigenous leaders, activists, and policymakers.
Criminalizing the protection of water, not its degradation, is a sign of things to come—but Water Protectors are here to stay.
Whether today or in the deep past, when political power is wielded autocratically, the checks and leveling mechanisms that dampen inequality will tend to break down, and, over time, disparities in wealth will move closer toward their maximal potentials. In this way, the past is a mirror for what we now see.
Real energy security comes with reducing reliance on foreign fossil fuels through efficiency, solar, wind, ground source heat pumps, and etc., which are available to all countries.
The Leaver story does not bestow power on its enactors. It affords lives that work well for them. It’s not an existence dominated by striving and angst; by confusion and adversaries.
After dropping the kids off at the pool, Asher, Rob, and Jason cover the interplay of entropy and self-organization and contemplate how to manage the inevitability of entropy with elegance (beyond morphing into a lizard person).
