October 11, 2018
by Robert Raymond, Shareable In this second episode of our new radio documentary series The Response, we shine a spotlight on Puerto Rico. When Hurricane Maria slammed into the island about a year ago, it resulted in thousands of deaths...
October 5, 2018
The Response is a new podcast documentary series exploring the remarkable communities that arise in the aftermath of natural disasters.
October 2, 2018
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...
September 24, 2018
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...
September 21, 2018
A lot of people are asking the question these days—including serious folks who work full-time on climate and energy policy.
September 19, 2018
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...
September 18, 2018
Crime is always present in complex societies, just as all higher-order organisms are subject to parasites.
September 14, 2018
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...
August 29, 2018
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.
August 28, 2018
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...