Society

Covid’s Metamorphoses: What this pandemic has taught us

By Brian Kaller, originally published by Old School School

May 9, 2020

A few weeks ago, I posted a video about the silver linings to this crisis and quarantine. Now that countries are either opening up or announcing plans to do so, I wanted to make another video looking back on what we’ve learned from this.

Photo: Boleslaus I monument in Wrocław masked during coronavirus pandemic April 2020. Photo by Fallaner. Via Wikimedia Commons 

Brian Kaller

Former newspaper editor Brian Kaller wrote his first magazine cover story on peak oil in 2004, and since then has written for the American Conservative, the Dallas Morning News, Front Porch Republic, Big Questions Online and Low-Tech Magazine. In 2005 he and his family moved to rural Ireland, where he speaks to schools and churches, and writes a weekly column for the local newspaper.

 

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community

Meeting the Moment with Community

By Shareable Staff, Shareable

Democracy is built in our homes, our schools, our workplaces, our neighborhoods. We can join with our neighbors to build communities of care that meet our direct needs and show that another world is not only possible, it is already blooming.

November 22, 2024

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Subsidies

By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth

I am not sure that my employer quite understands the changes that have been set in motion. The gossip chain spread that story within days. Now, we all know that we have leverage. We can demand. Wouldn’t it be great if such a thing were to happen in your community! So what’s stopping you…

November 22, 2024

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An Emerging Third Option: Reclaiming Democracy from Dark Money & Dark Tech

By Otto Scharmer, Presencing Institute

In short — the key to the profound changes that our current polycrisis is calling for lies in the cultivation of the social soil. Every one of us can be (and is) a gardener or farmer of that soil.

November 22, 2024