Sowing the seed of the future

By Andrew Curry, the next wave

Visionary fiction-writing is a practice we can use to imagine and prepare for the future together, to generate the ideas that we want to see more of in the world

Nomadland: The Lifetime Impacts of Gender-Bias in Wages

By Chuck Collins, Common Dreams

For example, why do women retire with significantly lower Social Security benefits, after a lifetime of gender prejudiced earnings?

Tokata Iron Eyes stars at Black Hills Film Festival

By Talli Nauman, Esperanza Project

Lakota youth pipeline fighter and climate justice advocate Tokata Iron Eyes stars in “My Name Is Future,” a new independent feature documentary that fuses her worldview with the art of Los Angeles-based activist Andrea Bowers.

Podcast from the Prairie: “The Portrait of an Artist as an Old Man”

By Robert Jensen, Wes Jackson, Podcast from the Prairie

In this episode of “Podcast from the Prairie,” Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen discuss the creativity of both humans and the larger living world.

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Review: The Disappearing Shore by Roberta Park

By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press

For a book that can be breezed through in a couple of hours, this pseudonymously written novella manages to plumb the modern-day human dilemma with surprising depth and emotion.

Avatar The Last Airbender and Critical Self Reflections Towards Climate Justice 

By Nia Aisha, Resilience.org

As of right now, climate justice does not have a unified definition. Its meaning changes depending on who is using it so let me make my vision very clear. Climate justice is collective liberation by another name.

‘The Condor and The Eagle’ Takes Flight

By Linda Etchart, Esperanza Project

From the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, to the oil fields of Texas, to the Ecuadorian Amazon, The Condor & the Eagle tells the story of the collective struggle of the Indigenous peoples of North and South America in their fight to preserve their communities and to protect the Earth from climate change.

Descansos

By Elizabeth Glenn-Copeland, Resilience.org

According to Cantadora and Wise Woman, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Descansos are symbols that mark a death: as an example, a cross by the wayside with the name of the person who died spelled out in nails. Can we create Descansos for our dying civilization? For die it must if we are to live. Let these words be my Descansos offered in gratitude to She Who Loves Us All.

Good (enough) Choices in Bad Times

By Vicki Robin, Vicki Robin blog

Now that we’ve patted ourselves down to check for wounds to our wallets or cupboards or health, I challenge us to plant the question in our hearts – who isn’t safe, needs support, needs allies – and see what grows. Who will you be on the other side of this?

The Cost of Knowing

By Dougald Hine, Bella Caledonia

What we know and what we have good grounds to fear about climate change calls our way of living into question. To take this evidence seriously leads to difficult questions about the stories we have been telling about the shape of history, the nature of the world in which we find ourselves and the virtue of achievements in which we have taken pride.

The Lab and the Play

By Dougald Hine, Bella Caledonia

Artists are enlisted to help ‘deliver the message’ and ‘raise awareness’, as though art were a sophisticated extension of the PR department or a cheap alternative to an advertising agency. This is not only a misconception of what art is and what it’s good at, it’s also a misconception of the knowledge work that remains, when the scientists reach the end of their road.

The Missing Third Client: How Artists are Exploring Radical Economies

By Mi You, Open Democracy

There are many proposals for radical economies from progressive economists, activists and think tanks. Artists are increasingly joining these debates with speculative proposals and unconventional methodologies.