The Great Archaeological Discovery of Our Time
If we’re going to enjoy the benefits of history, behavior in the contemporary West should not be isolated or considered distinct from the rest.
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Dweller-managed architecture as the basis of democratic and ecological urbanism
According to the underlying form of social organization, architecture can promote individualist lifestyles, servitude, submission, or it can encourage communal solidarity, freedom, and dignity.
We Need Green Military Technology to Kill One Another Sustainably: Imagining the Ecomodernist Death Ray
Our political culture rolls the dice on climate change, with a strategy of doing (nearly) absolutely nothing, and ecomodernism provides the rhetorical inspiration for inaction.
What are the four waves of feminism? And what comes next?
To build vigorous varieties of feminism going forward, we might reframe the “waves”. We need to let emerging generations of feminists know they are not living in an isolated moment, with the onerous job of starting afresh. Rather, they have the momentum created by generations upon generations of women to build on.
Why I Don’t Rely on Hope
Get up in the morning, day after day, try to find something worth doing, and then do it as well as possible, realizing that failure will be routine but that small successes—sometimes really small, maybe even too small to see in the moment—make it possible to continue.
Free Island Press E-book on Making a Way in the Age of Extremes
African Americans have long spoken of the need to “make a way out of no way.” Born of painful necessity, the phrase reminds us that there is always room for constructive action. Read on to see how others are “making a way” in this challenging moment.
History’s crisis detectives: How we’re using maths and data to reveal why societies collapse – and clues about the future
Learning from history means that we have the ability to do something different. We can relieve the pressures that are creating violence and making society more fragile.
To Change the Behavior, Change the Environment: Lessons From the Blue Zones
After spending time and learning from elders in the Blue Zones, Buettner and his team identified nine common denominators that contribute to longer and happier lives, which fall into four key themes: related to natural movement, wise eating, connection, and outlook.
7 Key Interventions for the Future
In this Frankly, Nate shares insights on his personal/organizational priorities as a lead up to outlining 7 global interventions that he sees as being most impactful in preparing for a resource constrained future.
Toward a New Conception of “Vermont Strong”
Vermonters need to conceive of their resilience as something that enables them to imagine new futures, not stand steady in ways of the past marked by homogenous identities that sometimes do more harm than help.
Climate Politics: The View from Washington February 29, 2024
Republicans and Democrats are once again playing a game of political chicken over government funding. Who will blink first?
Sandra Faber: “The Universe and Our Place in It”
On this episode, astrophysicist Sandra Faber joins Nate for a wideview cosmological conversation on the development of the known-universe and the moral implications for humanity’s role within it.