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Why language is central to the survival of cultures and communities
Deep cultural connection to land and nature are inherent to the human experience and a birthright, says Jay Griffiths, author of WILD: An Elemental Journey (2006). But what happens when communities become displaced, either voluntarily or through force?
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Climate change has toppled some civilizations but not others. Why?
The new research, published in a peer-reviewed biological sciences journal from The Royal Society, suggests that resilience is an ability that societies can gain and lose over time. Researchers found that a stable society can withstand even a dramatic climate shock, whereas a small shock can lead to chaos in a vulnerable one.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Weather Forecasting???
We are sensible. And sense will always produce more real information than can ever be spat out by insensate remote programming.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Pepe
Every person, animal, plant and inanimate thing, singly and in functional conjunctions with other things, ultimately the whole universe, continually extends their life from the present into the future. How precious is life, and how great is our mission to serve it!
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
A fragile frankenstein
Is there an imminent danger that artificial intelligence will leap-frog human intelligence, go rogue, and either eliminate or enslave the human race? You won’t find an answer to this question in an expert consensus, because there is none.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Riane Eisler: “Partnership and Domination Systems”
On this episode, Nate is joined by systems scientist Riane Eisler to discuss her decades of work studying ‘domination’ and ‘partnership’ societies throughout history and what it might mean to transition to more sustainable societies in the future.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Resiliency Hub provides safety and self-sufficiency in a disinvested community
Solar power plus battery storage will enable a Petersburg, VA Resiliency Hub to keep its doors open in times of crisis.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Hot? Hungry? Step inside these food forests.
Volunteers, school teachers, and urban farmers in cities across the country are planting fruit and nut trees, berry bushes, and other edible plants in public spaces to create shade, provide access to green space, and supply neighbors with free and healthy food.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
“We will defend this life, we will resist on this land”
The example of Koçerata wants to be a source of strength, hope and inspiration to think also about how we can resist and defend our territories, how we can build alliances with struggles in other geographies, communities and thereby free life.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
They Didn’t Stand a Chance
The common thread in all these tragic examples is forcing plants and animals out of their evolutionary context, as we have done to ourselves as well via modernity.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Crazy Town 81. Escaping Consumerism: Why Crocheted Codpieces Are the Perfect Antidote to Fast Fashion
If American consumers ever come up for air under the pile of crap in their storage units, they find themselves face to face with a materialistic hellscape of megastores, McMansions, endless fleets of delivery trucks, and evil hordes of targeted ads. But help is on the way. Jason, Rob, and Asher present ideas for shaping up a world beyond consumerism.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Letter From The Farm | Cooking With The Lights Off – Ingredients of Rural Resilience
After his experience living and volunteering on the farm in February, Matteo reflects on what El Manzano can teach us about some key ingredients of rural resilience: housing, labour and energy.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
New legislation could accelerate the development of Worker Cooperatives across the US
From small towns to large cities throughout the country, a significant shift towards workplace democracy and equitable wealth sharing is gaining momentum. At the forefront of this movement are worker-owned cooperative businesses, where employees work and share ownership and decision-making.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Letter From The Farm | A Flamenco Approach to Rural Resilience
The story of El Manzano can evoke a ‘flamenco’ approach to rural resilience, which is rooted in the living reality of peoples’ stories, and not in empty political frameworks and academic foresights.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Romantic anti-capitalism: an interview with Michael Löwy
What is the “rational kernel” of the romantic world-view? It is a social and cultural protest against the modern industrial capitalist civilisation, in the name of past, pre-capitalist, pre-modern values.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Samantha Sweetwater: “Life at the Center”
On this episode, thought leader and ceremonial guide Samantha Sweetwater joins Nate to share her journey through mysticism and guiding others through their own unique spiritual paths.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
What the Anthropocene’s critics overlook – and why it really should be a new geological epoch
Less than a century ago, processes that began during the Industrial Revolution swung into overdrive. That’s the Anthropocene as an epoch. It’s real, it’s already made geology, and it won’t go away.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Covas do Barroso: Local Resistance to Europe’s Lithium Race
Lithium may be at the heart of the green transition, but mining the metallic element also causes damage to natural environments. In lithium-rich Portugal, modest rural communities join national outrage against governmental deals bypassing local economies and threatening livelihoods.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Attending to the sacred
This is the formidable challenge of our times – to create limits and localism while not creating arbitrary rules of social exclusion.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
Creating a calm, regenerative oasis outside the metropolis of Sao Paulo
Desperto – Centro de Culturas Regenerativas is a regenerative agriculture initiative situated in Vale do Paraiba, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition
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