Blues for America
Blues may be America’s greatest cultural gift to the world; if not, it’s certainly on the short list. Blues embodies human resilience in the face of adversity and suffering.
building resilient societies
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 89 Joanna Macy
Joanna Macy, Ph.D, author & teacher, is a scholar of Buddhism, systems thinking and deep ecology. A respected voice in movements for peace, justice, and ecology, she interweaves her scholarship with learnings from six decades of activism. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
On Commoning
We transform the very meaning of public and private by daring to proclaim the communal sphere as existing, real, and growing, evolving, and necessary.
The Power Podcast: Episode 5 Fossil Fuels Changed Everything
Improve your energy literacy with stories about pushing motor vehicles, enduring blackouts, and growing $10 tomatoes, and take a tour of history that visits ancient China, industrializing Britain, the Great Depression, the Cold War, and the Green Revolution.
Health & welfare in a small farm future – Part 1
For now, I just want to posit the possibility that small farm societies of the future might potentially deliver a decent level of human wellbeing.
The Response: Wartime Mutual Aid in Ukraine
In this episode, we’re highlighting stories of Ukrainian resistance and solidarity. A small but significant glimpse into how the Ukrainian people have come together to survive the war, to strengthen their communities, and to fight for each other and their autonomy.
FAQ for a New Era
Understand having “anything and everything-all of the time” is no longer an option in a world on fire. Halve your cake so that maybe together we can continue eating it.
The Power Podcast: Episode 4 The Rise of Social Inequality
Richard Heinberg explores the development of social power – simply defined as the ability to get other people to do something.
Real Climate Action’s Not at COP-27, but It Is in a Thousand Rebellious Communities
In the peril-filled decade ahead, local, collective struggles by people of all ages—as exemplified by Extinction Rebellion, PODER, and Start:Empowerment—will be essential to advancing multiracial, pluralistic democracy and climate justice nationwide.
Surviving Collapse Through Social Transformation and Regeneration
When we begin to prioritize the needs of the most vulnerable among us is when we will see the most healing—the type of mitigation we need for our changing climate.
Review: The Unheard Song by Cary Neeper
The plights of these two species shed invaluable light on the real-life situation we humans now face as a result of our shortsighted impacts on Earth’s ecology—but do so without hitting us over the proverbial head the way scenarios in a lesser novel might.
Truths We Can’t Bear Alone: Facing an ‘Inconvenient Apocalypse’
In the face of multiple cascading crises, we have to tell as much of the truth as one can bear, then a little more, and then all the rest of the truth, whether one can bear it or not.
