Plunging Into the Polycrisis
This summer, we’ll be exploring civilizational collapse, so grab a cool drink and enjoy!
This Will Be the Coolest Summer of the Rest of Your Life
A prescient meme for the climate breakdown era.
To Swim in the Seine
Jeremiah Jones reflects on the life, death, and the potential rebirth of rivers.
Don’t Mention Nuclear War
A 40-year old poem on the impropriety of discussing nuclear war in polite company captures our particular moment exceptionally well.
When Fiction and Reality Meet: Lessons for the EU from the Danish TV Show Borgen
What can a power-hungry TV politician teach the head of the European Commission?
Lyme, Lyme, Go Away, Please Don’t Come Another Day
My hopefully brief encounter with, and meditation on, Lyme Disease
The Dance of Decluttering
Not as much a Two Step as a 28-step, at least for this “Chaotic Creative.”
Deliberative Democracy and Gaianism: Natural Complements
Tom Prugh explores the overlapping qualities that Deliberative Democracy and the Gaian Way share, and their cross-fertilizing potentialities.
The Parable of the Truss
It is the relationships between members (whether of a bridge or a community) that provide strength.
Envisioning the Transition to an Ecological Economy
Brannon Andersen explores what changes are needed to grow an ecological economy in the cracks of the current unsustainable system.
We’re All Ukrainian. We’re All Russian. We’re All Gaian.
All humans share one life-giving planet. Even if we never learn to stop fighting over who gets to control it.
Soylent Green is People! So What?
Is it a problem that Soylent Green was made out of people? Or was the problem simply a lack of transparency?