The Response Podcast: Radical Approaches to Disaster Relief in New York
The Response is a new podcast documentary series exploring the remarkable communities that arise in the aftermath of natural disasters.
Stephen Duncombe on Imagination, Spectacle and Desire
One of the best books I read this summer was Stephen Duncombe’s ‘Dream: re-imagining progressive politics in an age of fantasy’. Written during the last days of the presidency of George W. Bush, it was a plea for progressive...
When we look at the crisis rationally, the only logical response is to declare a climate emergency
People engaged in the climate debate are often bewildered by society’s lack of response. How can we ignore such overwhelming evidence of an existential threat to social and economic stability? Given human history, we should never have expected anything...
What Will it Take to Avert Collapse?
David Fridley Richard Heinberg
A lot of people are asking the question these days—including serious folks who work full-time on climate and energy policy.
Luxury Real Estate Boom Adds to Risk of Climate Disruption
As hurricanes and typhoons slam into the Southeastern US and the Philippines, there is growing focus on how climate disruption is contributing to more powerful storm surges. Even as President Trump pulls the U.S. back from the Paris global...
Human Predators, Human Prey – Part 3
Crime is always present in complex societies, just as all higher-order organisms are subject to parasites.
Why Incumbents Fail – And What That Means for Sustainability.
The core assumption and focus of people who work to drive sustainability through markets – as corporate leaders, investors, NGOs or thought leaders – is that we need to convince existing companies and their shareholders that sustainability is first...
Human Predators, Human Prey – Part 2
To the extent that we are today eroding the carrying capacity on which future generations would otherwise depend, our way of life could be characterized as intergenerational “predation”; to put it crudely, the old are “eating” the young.
Disruptive Markets: What Sustainability Really Means for Business
Many look around at today’s crises – climate change spinning out of control, inequality driving political instability and our oceans filling with plastic – and despair at the prospects for serious change. Most then try to apportion blame or...
If you take a charitable tax deduction, you should actually give to charity
When donors contribute to a DAF, they take a tax deduction — often a big one. But those funds can then sit in the DAF for years, even generations, before they’re granted out to charities working to meet real...