Beyond bottled water and sandwiches: What FEMA is doing to get hurricane victims back into their homes
Staffers from the Federal Emergency Management Agency have been on the ground since before Helene and Milton hit, positioned to help as soon as the storms passed, along with state and local responders. But many people aren’t clear about how FEMA helps or what its responsibilities are.
October 30, 2024
Discussion: What Can You Do about the Economy? How to Be a Degrowth Practitioner and Activist
Program Director at Post Carbon Institute, Rob Dietz, hosts a participatory discussion session with Anitra Nelson, degrowth scholar and activist and author of many books about degrowth and the systemic changes needed to make the shift to a post-capitalist, post-consumerist economy.
October 30, 2024
Bringing the Economy Home: Degrowth and Local Investing for a Sustainable Future
Environmental journalist Rachel Donald hosts a conversation with Jason Hickel, internationally known degrowth researcher and advocate, and Nia Evans and Cierra Peters of the Boston Ujima Project, which focuses on creating a community-controlled economy.
October 30, 2024
Indy Johar: “The Foundational Challenge: Stewardship, Responsibility, and Designing a New System”
Today, Nate is joined by architect and professor of planetary civics, Indy Johar, to explore the relationship between system design and human behavior – and what might be possible for transformational change.
October 29, 2024
Who Will Pay Back the Earth? Revaluing Net Energy through the Sustainable Yield of Regional Ecosystems
A planetary compact, focusing on the ratio between sustainable yield and human need, would encourage new partnerships between businesses, governments, and the public, granting to citizens the rights and responsibilities to organize the self-sufficiency and sustainability of their own regional habitats.
October 29, 2024
How Long Before This Storm Turns Political?
In a world where the weather’s only growing worse, if my community is a good example — and I suspect it’s as good as any — rural Americans need to think hard when they go to the ballot box (or the cash register) and consider the universe of hard scientific facts rather than just listening to the latest conspiracy monger on X or Instagram. Their lives and their livelihoods may just depend on it.
October 28, 2024
Bird flu, infected cows and playwright Henrik Ibsen
Is the next pandemic on its way? The dramatic spread of bird flu in American cattle is very concerning.
October 27, 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?