What does an ecological civilization look like?
An ecological civilization is both a new and ancient idea. While the notion of structuring human society on an ecological basis might seem radical, Indigenous peoples around the world have organized themselves from time immemorial on life-affirming principles.
New climate maps show a transformed United States
See how the North American places where humans have lived for thousands of years will shift and what changes are in store for your county.
Get ready for the Forever Plague
While Omicron’s subvariants find new ways to evade vaccines and destabilize immune systems, another pandemic has overwhelmed officials who are supposed to be in charge of public health.
The Long View October Digest
Stanley Wu’s monthly Long View Digest curates the best work we find from around the world on the interconnected and interacting stressors of the global polycrisis.
This month, Stan reviews articles on the death of empire, collapsology, climate-driven mass migration, how AI invented 40,000 lethal molecules in six hours, Sri Lanka’s collapse, Australia’s decline, the Rhine drying up, and the poetic art of living in a time between worlds. He’s also found a beautiful new book that brings together Indigenous voices writing about climate change.
Agroecology, climate change induced polycrisis and the transformation of food systems
The harsh realities of climate change are becoming more visible and dangerous throughout the world according to the latest assessment of the IIPC.
The Great Decline
A dramatic decline in sperm counts is occurring around the world — more than 50 percent over five decades. This means a man today likely has only half the number of sperm that his grandfather did.
The return of Aztec floating farms
In Mexico City, a 700-year-old Aztec farming technique is giving a sustainable edge to modern agriculture
A new effort aims to catalyze big picture thinking by philanthropy about global stressors
These are some of the top stressors on the planet and the human race—and while each is well-recognized, what’s nowhere near as well understood is the manner in which they’re connected and interdependent.
We Are the Middle of Forever
Edited by Dahr Jamail  and  Stan RushworthÂ
An innovative work of research and reportage, We Are the Middle of Forever places Indigenous voices at the center of conversations about today’s environmental crisis.
How do you know if you’re living through the death of an empire?
It’s natural that we expect the end of a story—the end of an empire—to have some drama. The reality is far less exciting.Â
Are we on the eve of a nuclear disaster?
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is the largest power plant in the Ukraine and in Europe—some of the major protections against meltdown have been severely damaged by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Europe is on edge and much of the world recognizes that we are facing the possibility of a nuclear meltdown as a result of the invasion: the Omega Collaborative brought these risks front and center in March with a webinar, Ukraine–Nuclear Safety & Nuclear Security by Dr. Tatsujiro Suzuki.
Mutual Accompaniment and the Creation of the Commons
By Mary Watkins
This timely and pathbreaking volume maps a radical model of accompaniment, exploring its profound implications for solidarity. Psychosocial and ecological accompaniment is a mode of responsive assistance that combines psychosocial understanding with political and cultural action.
Designs for the Pluriverse
By Arturo Ecobar
In Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design’s world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attuned to justice and the Earth.
Numbers Don’t Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World
by Vaclav Smil
From Earth’s nations and inhabitants, through the fuels and foods that energize them, to the transportation and inventions of our modern world – and how all of this affects the planet itself – in Numbers Don’t Lie, Professor Vaclav Smil takes us on a fact-finding adventure, using surprising statistics and illuminating graphs to challenge lazy thinking.
Extinction risk may be much worse than current estimates
A machine-learning algorithm predicts that more than half of the thousands of species whose conservation status has yet to be assessed are probably in danger of disappearing for good
James Lovelock changed the way human beings look at the Earth
The father of the Gaia hypothesis died on July 26th, aged 103