Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Our politicians, news agencies, and larger population must stop paying homage to billionaires who will profit off our predicaments or politicians who will try to capitalize on any crisis. It’s time to see that projects of survival and solidarity among those struggling the most are our only true hope for a future that will otherwise be ever more perilous.
Stefan Gruber, a Carnegie Mellon professor of architecture and urbanism, sees cities as a prime site of struggle between capitalism and commons, and at the same time more accessible than most national or international policy venues.
Reclaming archiving is not just about organizing the past but unlocking potential for new knowledge and endless possibilities beyond colonial modalities of control.
The ways out are small and silent and obscure. And they do not come with publishing contracts… The ways out are doing the work and being an embodied life. The ways out do not need leaders or mass action or public law. They do not require expert opinion or explication. The ways out are just that… out. No more of this…
Even if Helene and Milton and hurricanes, forest fires, and droughts of the past haven’t cost all Americans—the next ones will. The clean energy and environmental communities need to make economics the dominant theme of their arguments.
Education for Degrowth involves the co-creation of educational processes and systems that harmonise and interact with the ever-changing socio-economic and ecological context, which is in line with an eco-social philosophical approach to education.
In this episode, Nate is joined by social philosopher Roman Krznaric to discuss ways we might govern or lead during moments of crisis, using the lens of former and current civilizations.
As kids head back to school and the general election nears, there’s a question on the minds of many families: How will the election outcome affect kids and their education?
Today’s state has turned over profit-seeking activity to the private sector. It runs its operations at a loss, and finances them by levying taxes on the private-sector surplus.
As Vanguard S.O.S. takes action in new places this fall, campaigners will be applying lessons learned and learning new ones in the process. It’s all in service of winning the changes that bring us ever closer to having clean air to breathe, clean water to drink and a safe climate in which to thrive.
For now, the bottom line is that the TTOM will continue to serve as a durable reminder of the primacy of agricultural and extractive activity in economic production. It belies the notion of decoupling GDP from energy and material use.
This paper is closer to a coffee machine conflict than to genuine science. Whatever – most probably ego-driven – issues the authors have with their colleagues, I suggest talking to them might be a better solution than wasting precious research and reading time in a male-as-usual who’s-got-the-biggest-science competition.
