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We’re measuring extreme heat better than ever. The human toll still goes underreported
Heat warning tools have become more sophisticated, yet public attention is still focused on record temperatures rather than the social conditions that turn heat into illness or even death. Why social risk, not temperature alone, should be at the center of how we report on extreme heat.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
What does ‘care’ really mean in agroecology?
So much talk about the importance of ‘care’ in agroecology, but what does it mean? Anouk Dijkman’s ‘Matrix of Care’ offers a clear way to see how domestic, community and more‑than‑human care practices connect, and why they matter for agroecological change.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Richard Heinberg: Why building resilience should be our top priority
In this presentation for The Climate Dialogue Group, Richard Heinberg shares his insights into why a world of climate disruption and energy volatility demands a shift from maximizing growth to strengthening community resilience.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Relationality: Rebuilding the connections that sustain life
This chapter of the Seeds Series explores "relationality" as a foundation for regenerative cultures, drawing on insights from various interviewees to show how empathy, accountability, place-based belonging, and interdependence can help heal the social and ecological fractures of modern life.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
For 6,000 years humanity controlled water. Climate change is changing the equation
For 6,000 years, human societies have sought to control water through ever-larger infrastructure. As climate change brings more extreme floods, droughts and heatwaves, a growing number of cities are exploring a different path: adapting to water's rhythms rather than trying to dominate them.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Nandita Bajaj: Confronting patriarchy, pronatalism, and population denial
Nandita Bajaj, executive director of Population Balance, defies stereotypes. She chose not to have children and has dedicated her life to research and advocacy on how pronatalism, overpopulation, and human supremacy fuel social inequality and ecological overshoot, and to confronting tough questions about humanity’s outsized footprint on Earth.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Better than to-go: How Italy avoided the coffee cup waste crisis before it even started
While coffee chains across North America generate mountains of disposable cups and lids every day, Italy's traditional café culture offers a different model. By serving coffee in reusable cups and encouraging customers to stay rather than rush away, Italian bars show that convenience and sustainability do not have to be at odds.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Meet the artist whose decoys are rebuilding the world’s seabird colonies
For more than a decade, Sue “Seabird Sue” Schubel’s lifelike decoys have anchored a global seabird restoration effort built on “social attraction,” luring colony-nesting birds back to lost or safer habitats, a strategy that has aided about a third of the world’s seabird species, including some of the most endangered.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
As global shocks mount, a new report calls for resilient, self-reliant food systems
Resilient, self-reliant food systems. A new IPES-Food report says they’re key to addressing food price volatility amid rising geopolitical tensions.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Kokushobi: My vote for word of the year for 2026
As Japan coins a new term for “cruelly hot days,” its linguistic and institutional adaptation to extreme heat starkly contrasts with growing climate denial among U.S. political elites, revealing an emerging global split between fossil-fuel holdouts and nations pushing for a rapid energy transition.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Sovereignty and rising sea levels: Climate change is reshaping the meaning of nationhood
As rising sea levels threaten low-lying island nations, questions once confined to legal theory are becoming urgent realities. From Tuvalu to the Maldives, climate change is forcing governments and communities to reconsider what sovereignty and nationhood mean when territory itself is disappearing.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Guide to Staying Human – Part 2: Navigating dread and carrying the weight of tomorrow
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.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
In defense of the disappearing Sagebrush Sea
The largest intact ecosystem in the lower 48 states is being sold off because Americans were trained to see it as wasteland.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
The current state of ‘carbon dioxide removal’ around the world
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies will need to be deployed at rates even faster than those seen for solar power, if the world is to have a chance of limiting global warming to 1.5C by 2100, says a new report.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
War in the Middle East made the case for renewables – what’s happening in each country tells a harder story
The war in the Middle East has exposed the costs of fossil fuel dependence, but the path to renewable energy looks very different across regions.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
The cardinal’s lesson: What we fail to notice, we rarely protect
An encounter with a singing cardinal in a quiet spring woodland prompts a reflection on what birdsong can teach us about listening and the overlooked connections that bind human life to the wider living world.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
How a village market became a pathway to women’s economic power in Bihar
In flood-prone northern Bihar, women transformed savings groups and kitchen gardens into a thriving local market that boosts incomes, strengthens food security and helps communities adapt to increasingly unpredictable climate.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Countries must back commitments to transition from fossil fuels with action
Many participants framed the first international Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels in Colombia as a historic turning point. But with no binding pledges and reliance on voluntary coalitions, its impact now hinges on whether governments turn rhetoric into enforceable policies.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Human Nature Odyssey, Episode 23. What Is Human Nature Odyssey?
You, me, and everyone we know were born on the Titanic. Some are shouting about icebergs. Some are shoveling coal into the furnaces. Some are jamming out while the band plays louder than ever. In this special episode Alex reviews the odyssey thus far.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Seeds Series Volume 2: Building beyond systems that oppress
This chapter from r3.0's latest Seeds Series explores how societies can move beyond extractive economic systems by embracing systems thinking, place-based resilience and regenerative approaches to food, energy and community development.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
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