What if we could uncancel the future?
We need something with a focus on action and possibility. We need a movement that shares stories of what’s possible, creating futures so exciting that people can’t help but want to make them happen.
Rob Hopkins
Not more but better – part 4
In this last article in the series, I turn to what a resilient, sustainable food system could look like. I will first discuss the agronomic side of the system and then the socio-economic part. In my view they are just two aspects of the same system.
Leading By Example
Rosemary Nenini is a busy woman. One of the founding members and manager of the Twala Tenebo Cultural Center, a collective owned and operated by a Maasai women’s group now comprised of 203 women, her life is completely dedicated to helping other Maasai women.
Living Like a Fungus
Like hyphae that act singly and in coordinated masses we must function individually and collectively as they do to activate the majority to protect democracy and the planet.
How Mesopotamia’s Urban and Industrial Revolution Created the Politics of Our Time
Giorgio Buccellati’s At the Origins of Politics takes readers to the early stages of a process that became the structure of modern life.
Butterflies declined by 22% in just 2 decades across the US – there are ways you can help save them
If the joy of seeing butterflies seems increasingly rare these days, it isn’t your imagination.
How to heat a home?
The most direct route to heat is also the least toxic, most reliable, most durable, and most sustainable within Vermont — and that’s heating with wood.
Snow, The Singularity, and Rocks in the River
In this Frankly, Nate discusses the human predicament in the context of ecological overshoot, energy dynamics, and the impact of a potential ‘singularity’ in artificial intelligence. He delves into the essence of humanity, advocating for a deeper understanding of our needs beyond material goods.
Finding Our Way Home – Part II: Hunting and Gathering
Though I am reforesting, I am also making a food forest, creating far less work for myself and more resiliency while the house, the gardens, the barns, the woods are becoming an integrated whole.
Daylight Ravings Time
The point is: nature is not rigid. Seasons happen. We might consider gracefully bending with the seasons, rather than pretending that the universe lurches to our capricious definition of time.
Building a just energy future together: Join the REC Co-lab this March
Not only do rural electric cooperatives cover a majority of the US, serving 42 million people while powering over 20 million homes, farms, and businesses, but they also are, in fact, cooperatives.
Local, Vernacular, and Alive
We should take inspiration from many brave, resourceful commons projects that are reclaiming the local from the neocolonial priorities of capital and nation-states. A big part of their work is recovering local ownership and use of land so that it can steward, and not exploit natural systems.
