2016, Planetary Mythologies and the Crisis of the Serpent
2016 isn’t the culprit. The mythologies we’ve used as a global culture are collapsing around us. Where do we look to find new ones?
Grief and Carbon Reductionism
People are not going to be frightened into caring about the climate. Scientific predictions about what will happen 50 years in the future are not going to make us care enough. We need to face the reality of loss.
The Mariner’s Rule
One of the things my readers ask me most often, in response to the ongoing decline and impending fall of modern industrial civilization, is what I suggest people ought to do about it all. It’s a valid question, and it deserves a serious answer.
Clearing the Air: Artists Take on Corporate Influence in Natural History Museums
I spoke with the artist collective Not An Alternative about their Natural History Museum, a new project that confronts the unsavory influence of corporate cash on science institutions.
Capitalism vs. the Climate: Naomi Klein on Need for New Economic Paradigm
Naomi Klein has a new book out about climate change, and her thesis is nothing short of bold: we need a new economic model, and a transformative global movement to tackle the climate change crisis.
Human Influence on Worldwide Climate Change
Recent international research indicates that it is “extremely likely” that human actions have contributed to the Earth’s increasing temperature.
2012, Climate Change and Permaculture
Shamans and scholars tell us that the close of this
great cycle of the Mayan calendar is not the cue for apocalypse but
rather a new beginning. Yet scientists are now predicting a 4 degree temperature
rise, which will indeed mean the end of civilization as we know it, if
not of human life on earth. The time we live in is a crucial turning point. What can we do?
Harvard Students Vote To Divest From Fossil Fuels
After an historic vote, Harvard joins the growing fossil fuel divestment movement.
Climate Change Influenced Maya Downfall
New research released about the possibility that climate change led to the downfall of the Maya, an advanced civilization that mysteriously disappeared.
Do The Math!
Energy companies have five times more oil, coal and gas than is safe to burn. 350.org is touring to spread the word.
