Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
What’s now widely called the male loneliness epidemic is, on closer inspection, less about loneliness itself than about having nowhere to take it. Why shouldn’t combating climate change do the job?
It is true that no high-energy society has ever halved its material throughput and existed at that level across generations. But an absent precedent for an unprecedented situation merely tells us the situation is new, not what people will do.
An ecological approach to learning uses outdoor play, storytelling, and shared experience to help children develop a kinship worldview — a deep recognition that living and nonliving parts of the Earth are fundamentally connected.
For decades, climate professionals and the informed public have been living with the disturbing knowledge of what is coming. Now, as the impacts of climate predictions begin to come true, we live with the devastating reality of what is happening, and we feel it deeply. This sorrow deserves a name.
After years of turning her backyard into a haven for wildlife, the author, Cylvia Hayes, watched the songbirds suddenly disappear. What began as a personal loss became a reflection on eco-grief, ecological decline, and how to find meaning, connection, and hope in a world undergoing profound environmental change.
In this week’s Frankly, Nate offers the third episode in his series on staying human, this time focused on presence. Nate shares a personal reflection on presence and its importance in a reality where we are constantly living in anticipation of the future.
Opening with a personal reflection on his own relationship to dread, Nate describes how the chronic anticipation of collapse affects the human nervous system long before any single crisis fully arrives.
Author and climate activist Katharine K. Wilkinson on the human infrastructure of social change.
Nate Hagens expands on the case for holding a distribution of possible futures rather than a single preferred one, and walks through a structured scenario-building exercise.
Across cultures, practices that limit ego and hierarchy help sustain cooperation and trust. In an era of cascading crises, rediscovering these “social technologies” could strengthen community resilience and collective action.
In the first instalment of a new series on thinking about the future, Nate Hagens argues that most debates about what lies ahead are shaped by a single competing narrative. He introduces “scenario thinking” as a way to hold multiple possible futures at once, and explores why this is psychologically and culturally difficult in practice.
As references to rivers, trees, and wildlife fade from books, songs, and everyday speech, our connection to the natural world also diminishes. Reclaiming these words can help us recognize, appreciate, and ultimately, preserve the environment.
