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What a 650-mile hike taught me about resilience and muddling through the Great Unraveling

Fri, 10/30/2026 - 01:00
I took a really long walk this summer. Along the way, I learned lessons that seemed applicable to how we can cultivate personal and community resilience during the Great Unraveling.

In times of rupture, gaia still holds us

Fri, 10/30/2026 - 01:00
Moments of rupture arrive the way storms do, not as isolated events, but as expressions of deeper atmospheric conditions.

Want to live more sustainably? Start with one tree

Fri, 10/30/2026 - 01:00
Whether to grow your own food or simply lessen your impact on the world, we can take initial steps toward self-sufficiency. I began by planting a tree.

Altman to humanity: ‘Accept some bad things to get benefits of AI’

Thu, 10/29/2026 - 01:00
AI offers far fewer benefits than the industry touts, leaning on what AI supposedly will do rather than what it can do now.

COP31: Performative summit or a catalyst for climate justice?

Thu, 10/29/2026 - 01:00
Dubbed the “implementation COP,” COP31 will center on moving the global climate agenda from pledges to real-world progress. But will it become just another hollow chapter in global climate diplomacy?

‘Technically simple does not mean politically simple’: What stands in the way of protecting the planet?

Thu, 10/29/2026 - 01:00
A constitution for the Earth doesn't require an entirely new institutional principle; we already know the decisive building blocks.

Bioregional regeneration: Lessons from Whatcom County and Cascadia

Wed, 10/28/2026 - 01:00
At the forefront of a bioregional approach to sustainability, which can be traced back to the ‘70s, are Regenerate Whatcom and its parent network, Regenerate Cascadia.

How human ecology education can counter learned social hierarchies — Cont’d

Wed, 10/28/2026 - 01:00
Rather than viewing human beings primarily through categories such as gender, race, appearance, or social status, human ecology begins with the shared needs and experiences that unite us all.

The case for ‘Climate Popularism’: A new politics for an age of ecological crisis

Tue, 10/27/2026 - 01:00
Climate resilience and adaptation remain largely neglected in UK politics, a glaring omission our proposal aims to address.

The world’s highest court ruled in favor of climate and environmental protections. Why hasn’t anything changed?

Tue, 10/27/2026 - 01:00
On 23 July 2025, the International Court of Justice said what scientists had been saying for forty years: states are legally obliged to protect the climate system.

Pilgrimage within the heart: On a trip to Scotland’s Isle of Iona, reflections on poetry and gathering

Tue, 10/27/2026 - 01:00
I’m writing this post from the Isle of Iona, a small island with a rich history.

U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether climate suits can go forward

Mon, 10/26/2026 - 01:00
Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on whether a lawsuit seeking damages for climate-change-related harm to Boulder County can proceed.

How human ecology education can counter learned social hierarchies

Mon, 10/26/2026 - 01:00
Social hierarchies based on gender, race, appearance, and status are often learned rather than inevitable. Human ecology education offers one framework for helping people recognize these patterns and build more equitable relationships and communities.

What if fighting climate change could help tackle the crisis of male loneliness?

Mon, 10/26/2026 - 01:00
What's now widely called the male loneliness epidemic is, on closer inspection, less about loneliness itself than about having nowhere to take it. Why shouldn't combating climate change do the job?

In his new book, activist Chris Dixon teaches us that beating burnout in social movements requires strategy

Fri, 10/23/2026 - 01:00
“For the Long Haul” diagnoses the roots of burnout among organizers and offers lessons from movement elders to combat it.

Introducing the Sustainable Capital Markets Act: A proposal for reforming Wall Street

Fri, 10/23/2026 - 01:00
A new feeder bill for the Steady State Economy Act, the Sustainable Capital Markets Act (SCMA), is a launchpad for capital-markets reform.

Science Fiction Ecologies: How Octavia Butler used science fiction to think about ecological collapse – book excerpt

Fri, 10/23/2026 - 01:00
Environmental struggles were still on Butler’s mind as she brainstormed in the last years of her life for what would have been her last novel, Spiritus.

Washington State invests my pension in genocide. I’m demanding divestment

Thu, 10/22/2026 - 01:00
Workers across the US are demanding divestment from firms that profit from weapons and surveillance. I’m one of them.

Decolonizing food systems through bioregional eating

Thu, 10/22/2026 - 01:00
Food system change was a tool of colonization. If changing what people eat can change everything, then food system change can also be a tool of liberation.

Comfort, resilience, and healing: Discovering the Spiritual Wisdom of Trees – book excerpt

Thu, 10/22/2026 - 01:00
We do not need to bear witness to and grieve the loss of our tree kin, or other losses we might suffer, by ourselves. Trees, who have shown extraordinary resilience in the face of extensive injury, are companions well suited to our journey through sorrow to healing.

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