by Omega | Jul 6, 2023 | Polycrisis
Multiple global crises—including the pandemic, climate change, and Russia’s war on Ukraine—have recently linked together in ways that are significant in scope, devastating in effect, but poorly understood. Dr. Michael Lawrence, a Fellow at the Cascade Institute Read...
by Omega | Sep 18, 2025 | Polycrisis
The term “crisis” gets banded about with ease these days, in fact some have argues that we are living through an era of polycrisis, with more than one crisis going on simultaneously. But with its origins in Ancient Greek medicin, what does the term...
by Omega | Sep 17, 2025 | Politics
In this paper, we argue that the existing paradigm of democracy driving scholarship about its relationship to AI highlights the wrong questions. The essay describes this broad paradigm—which emphasizes the benefits of deliberation and sortition—and explains why it is...
by Omega | Sep 16, 2025 | Worldviews
The disclosure of climate change as a destabilizing consequence of human endeavor was enabled in the first place by planetary-scale computation. This capacity holds out the evolutionary prospect that human, machine and Earth intelligence might one day merge into a...
by Omega | Sep 15, 2025 | Environment
We stand at the threshold between worlds. The old empire is composting itself. In this sacred transition, bioregional coordination offers a path toward life-affirming civilization—but only if we learn to weave traditional institutions and emergent network commons into...
by Omega | Sep 15, 2025 | Community
The rapid emergence of artificial intelligence, the compounding realities of ecological crises, and the evolving ways we create and preserve knowledge — all of these call us to think differently about our place in time and how we frame the future. Patrick Down Read...
by Omega | Sep 12, 2025 | Resilience
With global temperatures still rising and disruption becoming the new normal, we need real, practical solutions for resilience and adaptation. The good news is there is a wealth of research on resilience. But much of it is unknown for decision-makers or hard for them...
by Omega | Aug 19, 2025 | Resilience
Rachel Donald’s recent @PlanetCritical conversation with Max Wilbert titled “Resilience is Resistance,” captures a profound truth about how communities defend themselves while building alternatives. After reading Imbolo Mbue’s “How...
by Omega | Aug 1, 2025 | Economy
The world economy is like a supercomputer that churns through trillions of calculations of prices and quantities, and spits out information on incomes, wealth, profits, and jobs. This is effectively how capitalism works—as a highly efficient information-processing...
by Omega | Jul 31, 2025 | Worldviews
Journalists depend on tipsters: people who observe something noteworthy, or experience it, and alert the media. Some of the technology investigations I’ve worked hardest on in the past — on facial recognition technology and online slander — started with tips in my...
by Omega | Jul 30, 2025 | Resilience
The work of the Great Turning, which is vast and complex, clusters naturally into three areas, or dimensions. Perhaps you can locate your own efforts in one or more of these dimensions? Reflecting on the dimensions may also illuminate where you are called to serve....
