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3 Old Technologies For A Sustainable Future

Wed, 04/17/2024 - 13:06
We don't need high-tech innovation to create a sustainable future for humanity. In fact, all the tech we need to regenerate our ecosystem and provide a good life for all already exists.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Ministry of Imagination Manifesto released as the world goes to the polls

Wed, 04/17/2024 - 13:04
This year, perhaps now more than ever, we need a taste of what policymaking underpinned by the radical imagination looks like.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

The ECHR’s First Climate Ruling: What Does it Mean?

Wed, 04/17/2024 - 13:03
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has today ruled that insufficient action to tackle climate change is a violation of human rights.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Republicans Have Plans for Working People

Wed, 04/17/2024 - 03:02
This fall, as we face the most consequential elections of my lifetime (all 71 years of it), rights that working people once upon a time fought and died for — the eight-hour day, a legal minimum wage, protections against child labor — are, in effect, back on the ballot.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Humans: the Movie

Wed, 04/17/2024 - 02:40
Rather than double down on a failing technological approach to living in this world, we can start walking away from modernity, and figure out new ways to live.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Crazy Town 84.  Escaping Technologyism: Dreams of AI Sheep and the Deadliest Word in Film History

Wed, 04/17/2024 - 01:22
Modern humans have a Stockholm Syndrome relationship to technology, which has kidnapped us while convincing us it has our best interests in mind. But when one looks back at the history of plastics or the current frenzy around AI, it isn't hard to see the insanity of doubling down on new technology to save us from previous technology.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

For a just transition to green energy, tribes need more than money

Tue, 04/16/2024 - 08:27
When it comes to a green future, money isn’t everything. In the case of Indigenous peoples, there also needs to be a variety of support and cultural understanding.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Tax Day

Tue, 04/16/2024 - 08:26
I believe we are careening toward a biophysical and cultural crisis that will very likely destroy money — along with a great many other things. But I also believe that we are falling toward abundance again.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Beyond legal personhood for the Whanganui River: Collaboration and pluralism in implementing the Te Awa Tupua Act

Tue, 04/16/2024 - 08:24
In 2017, the Whanganui River in Aotearoa New Zealand was given the rights of a legal person under the Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Act 2017.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Ecuador is Not For Sale

Tue, 04/16/2024 - 02:54
A coalition of eco-activist, civil society, and indigenous groups are facing increased repression and violence in the struggle to halt extractivism and to hold the Noboa administration accountable to Ecuador’s laws enshrining the rights of nature.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

The 17 Things I Am 100% Certain About

Tue, 04/16/2024 - 02:19
In this week’s Frankly, Nate offers a list of things he is absolutely certain of… or as certain as any human can be.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

The Fellowship of the Ring: ‘Bend Not Break’ Version

Tue, 04/02/2024 - 05:06
In this Frankly, Nate recasts his favorite book series, the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien, with some speculative “archetypes” of our human world grouped by various timelines.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Integrating Indigenous Wisdom with Systems Change: The Insights of Dr. Melanie Goodchild

Tue, 04/02/2024 - 04:51
Melanie emphasizes the importance of engaging with the earth not as a resource but as a teacher, a source of healing and wisdom.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Can we evolve? Part 2.

Tue, 04/02/2024 - 04:25
By changing the reality on the ground, institutions and superstructures as well as cultures, we can create positive self-reinforcing feedback loops for change. Ignoring capitalism to death.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

How a small church in a Vermont town addresses climate change

Tue, 04/02/2024 - 03:58
A couple years ago a project launched at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Brattleboro, Vt., aimed at making the whole church campus-- church, education wing, and rectory-- powered 110% by clean, renewable energy by 2030.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Nathan Schneider on Building Democratic Governance on the Internet

Tue, 04/02/2024 - 03:48
Schneider invites us to consider a daring idea, that "online spaces could be sites of creative, radical and democratic renaissance."
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

The Anatomy of Narrative Change

Tue, 04/02/2024 - 02:46
Today, let’s examine this narrative change using the example of car-centricity. My goal here is to show you the amazing things that are possible when we break free from the old way of thinking and doing.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Art After Petro-Capitalism, Part 1

Mon, 04/01/2024 - 02:53
Were we to be liberated from the shackles of petro-capitalism and its productivist whip, we would inevitably dedicate some of our hard-won free time to making more art.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Biofortification: The latest technical fix for depleted soils

Sun, 03/31/2024 - 09:46
In the tradition of filtering air that we've polluted and treating water that we've sullied, we now have replacing minerals in soil that we've depleted because of industrial agriculture.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

The hidden potential of bicycles

Fri, 03/29/2024 - 18:51
In perhaps one of the great ironies of human civilisation, mechanical devices to truly magnify human power came along as soon as we didn’t need them.  
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

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