Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
In the west of Ireland I find there has been less industrialisation of agriculture with many farming in a more traditional manner keeping small mixed holdings with off farm incomes – very often in construction where I meet them.
This online event on February 13, 2025 featuring Lesley Hughes (Macquarie University) and Doug Tallamy (University of Delaware) examines the disappearance of wild nature and explores how governments, scientists, activists, community groups, and individuals can address the crisis.
Enjoy this gallery of cartoons, graciously shared by Polyp and Andy Singer–two artists who are unafraid to unleash their wicked wit, creative talent, and good humor on the topics of capitalism, consumerism, and infantile fantasies of infinite economic growth.
This collection provides ideas (in the form of books, journals, podcasts, and other sources), organizations, and even entertaining media that can help you understand the economics of sustainability, the degrowth movement, and the transition away from capitalism and consumerism.
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.
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.
This live online event on Octoner 8, 2024 features Lilliana Mason, Associate Professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University and author of Radical American Partisanship, and Cecilie Surasky, Director of Communications & Narrative at the Othering & Belonging Institute. Post Carbon Institute’s Asher Miller will join Lilliana and Cecilie for an expansive conversation on the drivers of polarization and othering, and methods for fostering belonging and mutuality.
This live online discussion event on October 15, 2024 features Trisha Dehrone, a PhD candidate and NSF Fellow at the University of Massachusetts–Amherst. Trisha has designed and analyzed interventions that bridge group differences in divided societies and has evaluated interventions in the U.S., Rwanda, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Environmental journalist and podcaster Rachel Donald interviews Melissa Hoffer, the first ever Climate Chief for the state of Massachusetts. Rachel and Melissa discuss the role of government in changing the energy landscape, from relying on fossil fuels to widespread adoption of renewable sources and how to overcome the status quo championed by powerful corporations and national interests.
In this very special episode, author Daniel Quinn’s wife Rennie Mackay Quinn joins us for her first ever interview: sharing untold stories, new insights, and reflections on her life and journey with her beloved late husband Daniel Quinn.
In this climactic culmination of the Ishmael series, we ask the question: How do we transform an entire society? We’ll meet the fantastical Prince who first concocted the criminal justice system, have a final reckoning with our Taker Mythology hat, and return to the abandoned land of Ashbourne.
Is it possible to build a civilization that flies? (Metaphorically speaking of course.) How did we first learn to fly in the first place? It wasn’t by defying gravity and disobeying aerodynamics but by learning how to work with them. This is an episode of short stories, cinematic sound effects, and wacky voices. Strap in for liftoff.
