Mindset and worldviews shifts for a regenerative future
In this excerpt from the Seeds Series Volume 2, interviewees argue that deeper shifts in consciousness, economics and governance are needed to confront the polycrisis.
Bill Baue
How to Think About the Future – Part 3: Uphill futures in a downhill world
Nate builds a framework for understanding the pathways that connect today’s choices to tomorrow’s realities. Drawing from biology, ecology, history, and systems thinking, he introduces a civilizational terrain of ridges and valleys that is constantly shifting as we are moving through it.
Making ‘Land Back’ a reality through an Indigenous community land trust
How the Wiyot people and local organizers are using an “honor tax” system to advance Indigenous self-determination and sovereignty.
It’s the end of growth as we know it
Beyond living standards, economic growth has shaped how societies cope with shocks and distribute gains. As growth weakens, these less visible functions may prove just as consequential as its economic effects.
Mombasa: Key outcomes from the Our Ocean Conference in Kenya
A major ocean conference has ended in Mombasa, Kenya, with just a handful of countries committing to high-level political declarations on banning deep-sea mining, protecting climate-resilient coral reefs and combatting illegal fishing.
Most of the world’s wealth belongs to all of us. It’s time to start collecting
As extreme inequality worsens and AI concentrates wealth into the hands of a small elite, insisting that the wealth generated by our collective inheritance be shared with all its rightful beneficiaries is not so much a political position as a moral imperative.
In defense of “nature”: why the word still matters in the age of AI
“Nature” is often cast as a word that separates humans from non-humans. But it can also mean something much larger: the universe, the course of things, the great event we live within. It’s a word worth defending.
Climate diplomacy glossary: Learn the lingo of international climate talks with this handy reference guide
UN climate diplomacy can be hard to follow. This glossary explains the key terms, groups and forums shaping the talks.
From Mississippi to Yellowstone: What headwaters teach about designing bioregional funding ecosystems
Imagine what a financial system would do if it behaved like a headwaters system. There would be continual arrival of flows from elsewhere. Resources would pool into local places. Actions would converge in the same direction. And all of it would support the continual emergence and maintenance of life.
UN Climate Change Conference 2026: Latest global climate talks end with little progress amid deep political tensions
Two weeks of tense UN climate talks in Bonn, Germany, have produced few tangible outcomes as diplomats faced “gridlock”.
The most appropriate response to falling birthrates? Embrace them
As governments push costly pronatalist schemes to boost birthrates, the real solution, argues Nandita Bajaj, is to embrace declining fertility, expand women’s reproductive agency, and redesign economies for equity and ecological survival.
The consumer power myth: Why it’s time to de-commodify food
The impression that we can eat what we want fits neatly with a neoliberal story that treats capitalism as democratic, where people “vote with their wallets”. But this is an illusion. Rather than putting our faith in green consumerism to rebuild food systems, we should strive to de‑commodify food.
