by Omega | Jan 20, 2025 | Environment
There is a mysterious cold blob in the North Atlantic that could be a warning sign that the largest heat transfer system on the planet, the AMOC, is on the brink of collapse. But it turns out that the AMOC’s collapse is a highly debated topic among scientists –...
by Omega | Jan 17, 2025 | People
The bioregional vision of Donella (Dana) Meadows has been a guiding one for the Bioregional Learning Centre in South Devon. To mark our five-year anniversary we are publishing it here for the first time, with permission from the Academy for Systems Change that...
by Omega | Jan 16, 2025 | Culture
In a speech written for the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival, Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “much of the power of our Freedom Movement in the United States has come from this music.” King considered jazz music “triumphant” — and this belief is rooted in the widespread...
by Omega | Jan 15, 2025 | Worldviews
The British-Canadian computer scientist often touted as a “godfather” of artificial intelligence has shortened the odds of AI wiping out humanity over the next three decades, warning the pace of change in the technology is “much faster” than expected. Dan Milmo Read...
by Omega | Jan 14, 2025 | Resilience
Scientists, assisted with millions in government funding, are about to embark on a mission to set up an “early warning system” for two so-called climate change ‘tipping points’: critical thresholds which, if breached, could plunge Britain and much of the world into a...
by Omega | Jan 13, 2025 | Books, Nonfiction
How does one measure the intentions of a life? This is a question that Tekatsi:tsia’ kwa Katsi Cook (Wolf Clan, Mohawk Nation, New York) asks in her introduction to Worlds within Us, a book rich with the voices of eight Native American women elders....
by Omega | Jan 13, 2025 | Polycrisis
According to many historians, it is currently the best time to be alive in all of human history. We live longer, we are on average wealthier, we eat better, and are more educated. Yet, many of us wake up each morning overwhelmed by the current or looming crises of our...
by Omega | Jan 13, 2025 | Environment
Intolerable heat. Unsurvivable storms. Inescapable floods. In 2024, billions of people across the world faced climatic conditions that broke record after record, logging ever more highs for heat, floods, storms, fire and drought. As the year drew to a...
by Omega | Dec 30, 2024 | Resilience
Ecosystem degradation and unsustainable natural resource management are drivers of climate and disaster risk, as recognized by the Sendai Framework. This policy brief explores the link between human and ecosystem vulnerability and provides key insights on how nature...
by Omega | Dec 29, 2024 | Politics
We are left asking how this four-year period fits into recent American history and what legacy it leaves. The National Defence Industrial Strategy (NDIS) offers to do some of the work for us. Like other, better-known documents of the Biden era – Jake Sullivan’s speech...
