Drawing from systems thinking, indigenous stewardship models, and emerging legal innovations (such as rights of nature and intergenerational governance), the author outlines pathways toward a multi-level trust structure that redistributes authority, redefines prosperity, and embeds long-term ecological resilience at the core of global governance.
Nate Hagens outlines a practical and moral framework for navigating ecological and civilizational contraction. Blending systems thinking, grief literacy, resilience, and regeneration, he argues that humanity’s future depends upon relocalization, relationality, and learning to live within limits.
featured image | Pedro Lastra What happens when the strategies I use to fend off wounding become a way of life? Eventually, I no longer notice that I’ve shut myself off from others. When I try to avoid pain or…
Launched in 2001 as a wild experiment in crowdsourcing, Wikipedia has become the most expansive, accurate, and resilient encyclopedia in history. This essay reflects on the unlikely success of this self-organizing, volunteer-driven project and what it reveals about intelligence, collaboration, and the deeper evolutionary potential of freely shared knowledge in a connected world.
What does it mean to truly acknowledge our interconnectedness? In my experience, it involves not just an intellectual, but also an emotional process. Facing the reality of the part we’re playing in the larger organism of life can be both challenging and beautiful.
Beloved Community Circles is a network of small groups who make commitments to engage in spiritual practice and healing together and to participate in mindful action.
You would expect a course about collapse – both ecological and societal – to be depressing. Not so with “Surviving the Future: The Deeper Dive” Shaun Chamberlin’s ten week course about the end of extractive civilization, and what comes after, offered via Sterling College.
Alanis Obomsawin is a member of the Abenaki Nation and one of Canada's foremost activist documentary filmmakers. Obomsawin began her artistic life as a singer-songwriter in the 1960s, as indigenous artists from across North America were rallying in new assertions of cultural identity, consciousness, and political rights, calling for reckonings with oppressive colonial history.
The nomads and other Tibetans hold a reverence for the natural world, which ensures that they remain stewards of the land they have lived with for thousands of years. Small pockets of awareness of the land's magic, its sacredness, its deep inner value, still remain.
‘Ecovillages’—communities that consciously regenerate life within and around them—start appearing when we notice that the world really needs us to wake up and come fully present now. 'Business as usual' is no longer an option. Then we find that we have an endless capacity to find intelligent and different solutions.