The Regeneration Handbook: Excerpt
In these increasingly chaotic times, change is inevitable but evolution is not. We can choose to lean in and be transformed by it or sit around and wait for it to show up on our doorstep. If we decide to lean in, why not learn how to turn it to our advantage? If not us, who? If not now, when?
May 13, 2024
From Climate Crisis to Polycrisis
We are smart, linguistic, ultrasocial, tool-making primates who have recently stumbled upon an energy bonanza. We’ve accomplished wonders. But we have also become our own worst enemy. Collective survival will require setting aside our hubris and coming to terms with environmental and social limits.
May 13, 2024
Beyond 40 Acres and a Mule
Cities like Evanston, Illinois, and Asheville, North Carolina, are paving the way for local reparations in the absence of a federal plan.
May 10, 2024
Towards Planetarity
A new worldview is emerging, and it’s much richer, more meaningful, and more beautiful than the thinking that currently dominates our societies. I’m talking about planetarism, or what some also call planetarity.
May 9, 2024
Humane Values, Human Scale
Humane values, if they are to find a field of exercise, must be broadcast over a terrain populated by institutions that operate at human scale.
May 9, 2024
Zak Stein: “Values, Education, AI and the Metacrisis”
On this episode, Nate is joined by philosopher and educator Zak Stein to discuss the current state of education and development for children during a time of converging crises and societal transformation.
May 8, 2024
Does US Climate Policy Have a Herring Problem? (Part 2)
It is nearly impossible to conceive of any significant environmental regulation over the past four decades that has not involved the application of the “Chevron deference.”
May 8, 2024
The Great Unraveling
Environmental and social challenges are compounding to threaten the systems that support the world we know. What does this Great Unraveling mean for human civilization and the global ecosystem?