Navigating the Polycrisis–Life in Turbulent Times
How can we explain the explosive emergence of global awareness of the polycrisis over the past year, 2022-2023? Three years ago, almost no one had heard of the polycrisis. What happened?
building resilient societies
Protect the Flame: But Where the Danger Is, the Saving Power Also Grows
That’s how real change happens: in many incremental steps taken by individuals and small groups. If taken together from a shared awareness, ideas and actions will coalesce and align with the future that wants to emerge.
The Kitchen Table
That’s how we came to start a school called HOME. When people ask us what kind of school it is, the first answer has always been, ‘It’s a school that starts from the conversations that happen around our kitchen table.’
Drive for domination puts U.S. unity at risk
To a call for kindness and humility in our political relations, one can only say amen. I agree with French, if we stay together as a nation, that is what it will take.
Choosing Life
It’s not that nobody wants to work; it’s that there is no work that can support life within this culture. This is ‘they are killing us’ exemplified. And a large number of people are choosing life.
It’s getting to look a lot like degrowth: Part 2
Voluntary degrowth, I fear, is beyond our leaders’ capacity to imagine and beyond our society’s capacity to implement.
Global Polycrisis as a Pathway for Economic Transition
As the global polycrisis worsens, transformational change will be significantly encumbered by crises, breakdown, and collapse scenarios.
Tax Day
We evolved to experience this joy in eating nutritious food. And the peach exists merely to fill that need. We made it so… and now money stands in the way.
I was wrong to conclude collapse is inevitable…
I was wrong to conclude collapse is inevitable… because when I was concluding that, it had already begun.
Livelihood: a new and old idea
As an eco-cultural philosopher (and poet), I’m strongly inclined to believe modern humans have almost entirely lost the sense of the word which became our contemporary word, livelihood. Why?
Escape from Overshoot: Excerpt
The immediate cause of overshoot is the combination of the massive increase in the number of people and what we produce made possible by the rapid and grossly uneven experience of economic growth of the past two hundred years.
Hope from the Seed of Trauma
What if, 50 years from now, instead of looking back and yearning for how things were in 2023, we find ourselves in a more equal, tolerant, and just society living more harmoniously with the rest of life on earth?
