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9,000-acre nuclear-powered data center proposed on public lands in Utah

Tue, 10/06/2026 - 01:00
The facility calls for 456 small nuclear reactors, nuclear fuel production and nuclear waste storage. On the same day it surfaced, Sen. Ron Wyden introduced legislation that would ban new data centers.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Trust is climate infrastructure: What Mauritius teaches us about building truly resilient communities

Tue, 10/06/2026 - 01:00
Communities that trust their institutions are more willing to participate, collaborate, adapt, and recover. Communities that do not trust them remain vulnerable, regardless of how much climate finance is mobilised.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Unordinary Interventions: How to plant seeds for a better future

Tue, 10/06/2026 - 01:00
What can one person actually do about the metacrisis? In this week’s Frankly, Nate explicitly outlines just a few of the countless actions we can take to actually change what’s coming.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

How the pursuit of science also serves modernity

Mon, 10/05/2026 - 01:00
Much of science is in the service of modernity, producing remarkable short-term advantages for humans generally at the expense of the rest of the community of life.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Navigating the great unraveling: How communities are building place‑based resilience

Mon, 10/05/2026 - 01:00
How can we prepare for a disrupted future? The growing frequency and variety of global disruptions raise the question of how communities can prepare.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Oil, war and the fate of industrial societies

Mon, 10/05/2026 - 01:00
The world teeters on the brink of economic disaster due to energy shortages caused by war. Key oil-producing nations are unable and unwilling to increase output, though prices are high. The solutions being proposed—renewable energy technologies—are coming on line, but not fast enough. Sound familiar?
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Hope in a time of democratic decline

Fri, 10/02/2026 - 01:00
Two major reports released this year tell a grim story: Global freedom continues to decline and the US has lost its longstanding classification a liberal democracy. But hope lies in the data.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Does your neighborhood need a coffee klatch?

Fri, 10/02/2026 - 01:00
How a tiny town in Vermont turned a simple weekly gathering into the social glue holding a neighborhood together.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

‘The countryside cannot be made a sacrifice zone for the city’: Coming home to part-time farming – book excerpt

Fri, 10/02/2026 - 01:00
Cities cannot feed themselves, thus people who live in cities will be forever detached from the problems that come with extracting the resources they depend on and producing the food they eat.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Earthy Governance: How to learn about democracy from Indigenous Peoples

Thu, 10/01/2026 - 01:00
The nation-state model sustains itself on the logic that nature – and colonized peoples – are things to be conquered, assimilated, dominated, and exploited. It's time for an Earth-centered form of governance.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Robert Jensen argues that ‘fewer and less’ is unavoidable. But the future is not fixed

Thu, 10/01/2026 - 01:00
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.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

How restoration efforts helped Marinette County recover its forests, streams, and future

Mon, 09/28/2026 - 01:00
Marinette County could well become a model of sustainability. However, sprawling development may impede its progress as the next iteration of an economic threat to ecosystems.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Who will govern humanity’s new AI cognitive infrastructure?

Mon, 09/28/2026 - 01:00
Unlike previous technological revolutions, AI has the potential to reshape economies, education, science, healthcare, communication, and political decision-making.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Allowing space for nature: Rewilding to heal the earth

Mon, 09/28/2026 - 01:00
Although rewilding is often thought of as keeping humans “away”, people must be integrated into much of the rewilding process, living alongside and allowing space for wildness.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

How can you make your community thrive?

Fri, 09/25/2026 - 01:00
There’s a crucial difference between places where people thrive and a thriving community. That distinction is the critical ingredient that enables some communities to flourish while others do not.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

How an ecosystem restoration community is regenerating water cycles to mitigate forest fires in Portugal

Fri, 09/25/2026 - 01:00
Rewetting and restoring wetlands, building small dams, and restoring streams create landscape-level breaks that disrupt fire spread by retaining water in the land instead of letting it run off. EcoAtivo is putting this approach into practice.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

At the mouth of the Red Sea, the chokepoint where global crises converge

Fri, 09/25/2026 - 01:00
Historically, the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait have been a strategic region for trade and political dominance; today, we are still shaped by their influence as we remain fragilely interconnected.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

What the climate movement can learn from organized labor

Thu, 09/24/2026 - 01:00
The climate movement needs the kind of leverage that comes from shutting down the economy — and it can only get there through deep organizing with workers.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

What else is there to write about in the age of Donald Trump’s Washington?

Thu, 09/24/2026 - 01:00
Honestly, in this strange world of ours, what is there to write about except, of course, Donald Trump?
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

California’s AI boom has made billionaires richer. Now a wealth tax is on the ballot

Thu, 09/24/2026 - 01:00
Without Prop. 40 revenues, Californians could face hospital closures, job losses, increased food insecurity, and state budget cuts to public schools, yet tech billionaires are pouring millions into opposing the wealth tax.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

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