Why Musk’s access to U. S. Treasury payment systems risks a global financial meltdown
Giving Elon Musk and his callow team of computer coders access to the U.S. Treasury payments system is very, very dangerous.
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Saguaro Struggles: A Desert Icon Feels the Heat
The Sonoran Desert is no stranger to heat, but as climate change makes heatwaves more frequent, intense, and long-lasting, the resilience of this desert’s most beloved plant is being tested.
Juice: Review
A major new entry to the Oz-pocalypse sub-genre was recently published, which may be one of the most profound works of cli-fi seen to date. This is the novel Juice (Tim Winton, Picador, 2024), which paints a vivid future history of a climate change-ravaged Australia, and wider world.
Climate Politics: What Would Donald Trump Do?
So, what would Donald Trump do to convince his voters of the need for a low-carbon economy? He would keep it simple and all about the economy. Those are words to advocate by.
Rethinking Rank and Privilege in Human Societies
By applying a concept widely used in mathematics and computer science, Carole Crumley has radically changed the way anthropologists see and study societies.
Jean-Baptiste Fressoz: “Always Adding More: The Unpopular Reality about Energy Transitions”
Today, Nate is joined by energy and technology historian Jean-Baptiste Fressoz for a lesson on the importance of understanding the historical trajectory of energy use for realistically navigating the unprecedented challenges humanity faces today – including the dominant narrative of a modern-day “energy transition.”
“Cursed be the ground”
The disciplines of regenerative agriculture and nature restoration both seek to establish a more natural relationship with land. Both are experimenting with understanding what that relationship might look like in a modern world.
‘Time is water’: A cross-border Indigenous alliance works to save the Amazon
The rivers in this region of northwestern Peru are running dry as the Amazon Basin experiences its most severe drought in decades.
How Inclusive Utility Investments bring the energy transition to rural residents
By expanding the prevalence of IUI programs, and making sure the specifics of these programs are tailored to the benefit of working people, it is possible to effectively tackle both the climate crisis and affordability crisis at once.
This Clinic in Chicago Offers Free Legal Aid to Solidarity Economy Groups
The Community Enterprise and Solidarity Clinic is part of a growing mutual aid movement in Chicago, Illinois.
Waste Not
When I talk about being an Earthling, I am not talking about symbolism. I am talking about work and care and the responsibility of being part of a healthy whole. This is what being part of the land means.
Putting Nature at the Center
Is it too late to save biodiversity and the living Earth? In this article I’ll argue that only a collective effort to put wild nature at the center of our priorities will prevent its devastation and the possible disappearance of our own species, among countless others.