By Rob Dietz, Taylor Brorby, Resilience.org
Taylor Brorby has written one hell of a memoir. It covers many critical topics that come up in Crazy Town, from fracking to civil disobedience to that most inept of policies: aiming for infinite economic growth on a finite planet.
By James Arnott, Sarah Spengeman, Yale Climate Connections
Though fictional, the book raises a very real question: Can the human capacity to imagine alternate climate futures actually help generate new, more hopeful realities?
By David Bollier, David Bollier blog
This 15th edition of documenta ("documenta 15") confirms that commoning is surging as a way to re-imagine the political economy of art-making.
By Tina Jenkins Bell, Shareable
Numbers and notable accolades aside, Hagelberg says his biggest motivator in continuing his work is to change the status quo by shining a light on the uncomfortable, systemic truths that have shaped his community — and many like it.
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
What does it mean to truly understand the reality of humankind’s ecological predicament, and what should you do with that understanding once you possess it?
By Vicki Robin, Sarah Crowell, Resilience.org
Sarah Crowell is a dancer and choreographer who has taught dance, theater, mindfulness and violence prevention for over 35 years. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
By Vicki Robin, Christina Baldwin, Resilience.org
Christina Baldwin is a writer, wanderer, and teacher on the trail of community and story; she is co-founder, with Ann Linnea, of PeerSpirit, Inc. and The Circle Way Process, bringing modern structure and application to the human heritage of circle. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
By Charlotte Du Cann, Sophie Strand, Charlotte Du Cann blog
Stories and myths and scripture were originally oral and adaptive to changing social and ecological conditions and political climate. So I think the main thing about this interstitial space is always inviting my readers in to change me, to risk being changed by our conversation.
By Francia Lizbeth Garcia Hernandez, YES! magazine
Yollocalli helps young people in Chicago discover their talents and expose them to careers in the arts. Using a model without standardized content or grading, Yollocalli emphasizes creativity as a tool for youth to learn to express their needs, share their ideas, and influence their environment—all while learning 21st-century skills.
By Nadine Bloch, Waging Nonviolence
Thanks to the Steves, you’ll graduate with a solid handle on the process, principles, history and practice of artistic activism and how this can move us towards a better (utopian!) future.
By Geoffreyjen Edwards, Resilience.org
I do not know if this is a book for the ages, but it is certainly a book for our own apocalyptic times.
By Green European Journal Staff, Kim Stanley Robinson, Green European Journal
Like Dante in the inferno, for humanity in the first decades of the 21st century, the only way is through. In The Ministry for the Future, writer Kim Stanley Robinson imagines that path, telling the story of a world that somehow manages to mitigate the worst effects of climate change.