When it comes to sustainability, we’re a society of distracted drivers
Rather than sharing the distractions now capturing the attention of other drivers, we must each retrain ourselves to pay attention to the instrument panel and the road ahead of us.
The Response Podcast: The Impact of Northern California Fires on the Undocumented Community
by Robert Raymond, Shareable The third episode of The Response travels to Northern California to provide a unique perspective on the topics of climate change and immigration. California’s climate-fueled weather conditions have left the state in an extreme condition that has led...
When a warming climate threatens your dinner plate
Introducing Understanding Food and Climate Change : A suite of free digital resources Whether you’re a student in Osaka, Japan, tucking into a bento box of salted fish and edamame, a University professor in Dakar munching on Senegalese yassa, or...
The Response Podcast: How Puerto Ricans are Restoring Power to the People
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...
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.