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.
Michael Hudson
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.
The New Mexico Mom Growing Political Power From a Community Garden
Courtney has learned that all soil can be regenerated with a little work and everything needs cultivation. She started off seeing a community problem and dug around to find other people who also cared, planting the seeds for how their local government could help.
Finding Each other in the Ruins
The 2008 crisis threw together a lot of us who were ready to talk about the fragility of the systems that our societies take for granted. We’re living through another moment in which that sense of fragility is being brought home to many people around us – so my hope is that the resources we’re bringing together are of some help to those who are trying to find their bearings.
Assessing Local Good life: The Art of Prioritizing ‘What Counts’ Together
While existing initiatives show that indicators can serve the “qualitative”, policy-making, and the renewal of the concept of well-being, much work remains to better consider interdependencies among actors, countries, social/environmental aspects, and individual/collective factors.
The Brutish Are Coming, The Brutish Are Coming!
The brutish are here and it’s anyone’s guess if the US will be able to maintain the efficient operation of the federal government and have any true friends left in the international community during their reign.
