Women face the greatest climate risks but are critical to climate action
Women and girls are disproportionately affected by the climate crisis, yet women’s leadership and local knowledge are critical to building more resilient communities.
Ruhi Bhasin
Finding hope and purpose in a world in crisis
After years of turning her backyard into a haven for wildlife, the author, Cylvia Hayes, watched the songbirds suddenly disappear. What began as a personal loss became a reflection on eco-grief, ecological decline, and how to find meaning, connection, and hope in a world undergoing profound environmental change.
World Localization Day: Helena Norberg-Hodge on rebuilding local economies
In honor of World Localization Day, Helena Norberg-Hodge, founder of Local Futures and pioneer of the Localization movement, reflects on decades of work as an activist and the dangers that global, deregulated corporations pose to the global economy and the environmental movement.
How to end capitalism – and build a kind, green, cooperative economy. Cont’d
From climate policy to housing and trade, in this piece, author Guy Dauncey imagines how to dismantle capitalism and replace it with a greener, more cooperative alternative for everyone, including nature.
A lawful anarchist: The case against law in an age of mass extinction
We’re taught that without rigid legal systems society would collapse into chaos. But for most of human history, people relied on communal norms, not codified law, while the rise of written rules, hierarchy, and possessions cleared the way for today’s sixth mass extinction.
Feeding the World as if People Mattered: Why we need more farms, not more food – book excerpt
Asking if the world grows enough food is the wrong kind of question. It leads to the wrong kind of answer. We don’t need to produce more food. We need to produce more farms: places where communities of living beings can thrive.
Key takeaways from the “Spiritualities of Resilience” symposium exploring ways of responding to a planet in crisis
At a recent symposium, speakers explored the polycrisis and how we respond to unfolding collapse, urging a shift toward degrowth, bioregional living, and an earth‑centered way of relating to the world.
Reading the Times: As climate disasters mount, why is Donald Trump still the bigger story?
A buried report on the costliest wildfire season in history raises a larger question: why does political theatre command so much more attention than the escalating climate crisis reshaping our future?
How we could end capitalism – and build a kind, green, cooperative economy
In this essay, author Guy Dauncey argues that we can dismantle capitalism without abandoning markets, replacing it with a democratic, cooperative economy that reins in finance and puts people and nature first.
Social capital and community resilience: A conversation with Daniel Aldrich
Daniel Aldrich is a leading expert on how social ties shape disaster recovery, his perspective shaped by his family’s flight from Katrina and his work at USAID. In this interview, he explains why social capital is vital to strengthening communities in the face of crises.
The data center showdown in Lackawanna County
As AI drives a boom in massive, power-hungry data centers, tech companies are targeting small, vulnerable communities for sprawling “hyperscale” complexes. In Pennsylvania’s Lackawanna County, the tiny borough of Archbald, facing five proposed facilities, has become a flashpoint in a growing nationwide backlash over who pays the price for the digital future.
When the Saints go marching out: New Orleans and the resilience of cities
A recent study published in Nature Sustainability concluded that New Orleans residents should plan now to move away from the city. For the hundreds of thousands who live in New Orleans, and the millions of others who love the Crescent City, this is an incredibly sad conclusion. And it’s a conclusion that many other cities rich in culture and history around the world will face as sea levels rise.
