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The case for rewilding your backyard (and front yard too)

Tue, 09/15/2026 - 01:00
In the face of climate change, these small changes can support the recovery of declining populations of birds, insects, and other pollinators.

Confronting climate failure: How we dig ourselves out of the climate-catastrophe hole – Part 2

Tue, 09/15/2026 - 01:00
Humanity has dug itself into a hole. The first step to digging ourselves out is to acknowledge the depth of our civilizational failure.

We evolved to cooperate. So how did we create unequal societies?

Tue, 09/15/2026 - 01:00
For all our flaws, we evolved toward community and cooperation. Toward enough. Yet somehow, we got Egypt. What happened between ten and five thousand years ago that made this possible?

Safety in NIMBers: Why cities can’t save nature from destruction

Mon, 09/14/2026 - 01:00
Frequent exposure to roadkill prompts my wife to say that this is why we should all live in cities. Leave the hinterlands to wild creatures.

Confronting climate failure in a summer of steaming oceans and devastated villages – Part 1

Mon, 09/14/2026 - 01:00
Humanity is faced with the greatest failure in its long existence. What can we do about it?

Healing the earth, one community at a time: Highlighting ERC’s global impact

Mon, 09/14/2026 - 01:00
Eight years ago, the Ecosystem Restoration Communities movement began with a simple but powerful belief: that everyday people everywhere could restore the land and, in doing so, restore hope for our shared future.

The real story behind immigration, work, and power

Fri, 09/11/2026 - 01:00
Why people migrate, who profits from division, and how working people can build power together.

Navigating the currents of change: A conversation with Indigenous activist Sammy Gensaw III

Fri, 09/11/2026 - 01:00
In this Q&A, Sammy Gensaw III discusses the intricacies of the Klamath River, the challenges posed by dam infrastructure, and the transformative power of grassroots activism. 

‘I had a crazy dream’: The couple sailing around the world to help coastal communities adapt to climate change

Fri, 09/11/2026 - 01:00
Nigel and Veronica traded conventional careers for a years-long voyage from the UK to New Zealand, using their journey to connect with coastal communities facing increasingly severe climate risks.

Why community matters when preparing for the Great Unraveling

Thu, 09/10/2026 - 01:00
If we want to fail more beautifully, to make our predicament less ugly, we need to learn what it means to face it together.

Climatological limits to livestock: A plea for plant-based diets

Thu, 09/10/2026 - 01:00
Moving toward plant-based diets will not, by itself, solve the climate problem, but it is necessary for solving it.

Crazy Town: Episode 132. Finding Crazy Town Part 4: The Myth of Progress – Are We There Yet?

Wed, 09/09/2026 - 01:01
What if the story we tell ourselves about progress is wrong?

Are people really having fewer kids than they want?

Wed, 09/09/2026 - 01:00
How pronatalist misinformation fuels low-fertility alarmism.

Why America is removing thousands of dams and letting rivers flow freely: Excerpt

Wed, 09/09/2026 - 01:00
After centuries of dam building, a nationwide movement to dismantle these aging barriers is showing how free-flowing rivers can restore ecosystems, improve safety, and reconnect people with nature.

On the life of Wendell Berry

Tue, 09/08/2026 - 01:00
In an age of brutal philosophies, shrieking media, cold arts, lying politicians, and devouring institutions, Wendell Berry was a hero of an entirely human way of being.

The magic of hot composting

Tue, 09/08/2026 - 01:00
Imagine being able to compost almost everything and keep the majority of the biomass. Imagine, finally, that it only takes a matter of weeks, not months.

Preserving labor history in the present, for the future

Tue, 09/08/2026 - 01:00
Labor activists take steps to preserve the documents and strategies they use today, so future organizers will have a practical guide.

Andrew Millison — Restoring Global Ecology: The Great Green Wall and Large-Scale Permaculture in Action

Mon, 09/07/2026 - 01:00
In this conversation, Nate sits down with permaculture educator Andrew Millison to discuss the Great Green Wall project, a massive ecological initiative aimed at combating desertification in the Sahel region of Africa.

Unions have been down before, history shows how they can come back

Mon, 09/07/2026 - 01:00
Two ways we can honor unions at this time of trial are to ask others to join union picket lines and to learn from their innovations and successes for whatever campaigns we are committed to today.

Rebuilding the trade union movement: ‘Dare to struggle, dare to win’

Mon, 09/07/2026 - 01:00
To rebuild the trade union movement, to meaningfully defend the right to strike, and to begin a serious fightback against the imposition of the costs of capitalism’s crisis on the working class, we need to put our energy into workplace and community organising

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