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What belongs in an ecofeminist world?
What would an ecofeminist world include, and what would it leave behind? A classroom exercise explores the values and challenges of imagining systemic change.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Taking on the rich is possible. Our Illinois coalition won a tax on tech giants
Our campaign won a digital advertising revenue tax that may generate over $1.1 billion annually for the state’s budget.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Devastating News: The Loss of Richard Heinberg
On Sunday, July 19, we lost our kind, brilliant friend and colleague, Richard Heinberg.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
The Economics of Kindness: Guy Dauncey shares why we need to design economy as if life matters
In a talk on "community wealth" at the Ecovillage Findhorn, Guy Dauncey shares how kinder, community-based economies can create lasting shared prosperity for people and nature.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
The data center backlash that’s uniting America
The passage of New York's statewide moratorium marks the speed at which the movement is growing — and winning — in both blue and red parts of the country.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
After record-breaking heatwaves, can Britain’s new Prime Minister deliver on climate adaptation?
As the UK emerges from an unprecedented three heatwaves, one of them a record-breaking heatstorm, with public concern rising along with temperatures, the new Prime Minister must put climate breakdown firmly on his agenda.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Africa’s Greater Horn region is facing a looming polycrisis fueled by conflict, prices, climate and disease
The impacts of a strengthening El Niño and the war in Iran highlight in the Greater Horn of Africa, an area already beset by prolonged crisis and conflict, factors that are combining with others to potentially create a major, multicountry polycrisis.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
It’s time to phase out PFAS ‘forever chemicals’
As PFAS “forever chemicals” poison water, food, and air worldwide, progress on regulating their use has been significantly delayed – but things are changing.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
How propaganda and false information are undermining humanitarian work – Part 2
If the post-truth era reflects a shift in people’s understanding of whom or what to trust, it should also reflect a shift in how we earn people’s trust. Only by building strong levels of trust can we encourage people to question their own beliefs and accept alternative viewpoints.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Europe’s May–June heatwaves linked to thousands of deaths as scientists improve mortality estimates
Recent weeks have seen a flurry of reports from public health authorities and scientists that estimate the deaths caused by Europe’s record-breaking summer heatwaves.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
How socialists should govern: On using the capitalist state against itself
The election of Mayor Zohran Mamdani in NYC has brought the question of socialist governance to the fore. But what does “success” mean in the context of socialist governance from within the capitalist state?
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Trump is fighting migrants while fueling the crises that force people to flee
Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and the rest of that grim clan have launched their own invasion -- of planet Earth itself. They have indeed landed on the beaches of our world, armed to the teeth, and intent on turning this planet into a heat zone.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Creating resilient futures: Navigating ecological and civilizational contraction
A grounded perspective is emerging that refuses both despair and denial. It accepts that we are entering an era of converging limits, yet insists the future is not fixed and asks how we can move through this transition with dignity, relationality and mutual respect.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
How to Think About the Future – Part 5: How to build resilience from within
Nate scales his exploration of civilizational futures down to the future of a single human life and analyzes how the same patterns that shape economies, power, geopolitics, and Earth systems turn inward.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Repeated storms are turning disaster recovery into a way of life, and leaving communities facing disaster fatigue
As storms intensify in our warming world, recovery no longer feels permanent in places at risk of disasters. Instead, it’s too often a temporary reprieve before the next disaster hits. Recognizing community disaster fatigue is an important step toward building resilient recovery systems.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Introducing PLAN, the tool that finds every public lands fight open for comment right now
The Public Lands Action Network is a free tool that finds every public lands decision open for comment and helps you write the one comment the law makes them answer.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
On autumn asters, bumblebees find warmth at season’s end
Sowing flowers in spring may have a surprising effect on the inner lives of bees.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
‘Industrial memories’: What the history of the Anthropocene can tell us about where we’re headed
Industrial landscapes are living reminders of how centuries of fossil-fuel development reshaped Earth’s systems. As the Anthropocene unfolds, that legacy continues to shape our future. Historian Sabine Höhler argues that bridging the divide between human and Earth history is essential to understanding where we are and at what cost.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Stop press, same news: No energy transition, again
Has the much‑discussed energy transition actually begun? So far, the answer is no. With only brief dips in crisis years, global fossil fuel use has risen every year since 1983. The newly released 2025 data confirm: humanity burned more of every major energy source in 2025 than ever before.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Limestone whitewash: An old material with practical benefits
Modern paints contain toxic chemicals that linger in our homes and bodies, while traditional lime-based whitewash offers a low-energy, low-tox alternative that brightens buildings, protects surfaces and can even ‘sweeten’ acidic soils to boost fertility.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
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