What Are Floors Without Ceilings?
Are there a complementary set of measures that could make the planetary doughnut three dimensional?
My Bowl of Cereal
This week, Bart Everson digs to the bottom of Americans’ love of cereal to explore its cultural and environmental impact.
Forming Coalitions to Confront Fascism
We comfortable Gaians must act now, in ways beyond our comfort zones, or accept the slow death of Gaia.
The Fire Bringers
Karen Elias explores how our mythological worship of gods has found a new home, AI and technological “progress.”
Proposal for the sixth (and final) plastics negotiation session
Exploring some potential ideas to facilitate future negotiations for global environmental treaties.
Can We Find Resilience through the Embrace of Controlled Chaos?
A month living in a post-collapse nation helps reveal what the transition to a post-growth, post-consumer society might look like.
What Makes for Sustainable Teas?
Part II of the Gaian Guide to Liquids: a look at perhaps the most sustainable beverage in the world.
The Hot Summer Three-Step (One Step Forward, Two Steps Back)
Shifting Rhythms, Launching Projects, and Ignoring the Root Causes of Climate Change
Earthhog Ecology
Noticing too strong a similarity between groundhogs and humans.
The threat that shall not be named
Exploring efforts to erase climate change from reality and how to respond.
The Dark Frontier: To exploit or conserve the deep ocean
Erik Assadourian explores whether we will exploit the oceans’ depths or choose to conserve it.
The Wind and the Walls
Nikki Woods explores the value of symbolic acts, as a starting place, rather than a complete act in and of themselves.