by Omega | Jul 29, 2025 | Resilience
Resilience has been cast in the glow of the heroic comeback: the cancer survivor turned bestselling author, the amputee who runs a marathon, the refugee who becomes a congresswoman, the penniless single mother who becomes an environmental lawyer and saves her polluted...
by Omega | Jul 28, 2025 | Environment
This text was written by Dr Donella H. Meadows in 1982 to document the formation of the Balaton Group, a network of systems researchers and practitioners that formed the same year. It was in this context that bioregionalism as an ecological proposition first converged...
by Omega | Jul 25, 2025 | Environment
Faced with an unfathomable disaster like the July 4 flooding, Texans have found pride, and maybe some comfort in their identity as Texans, strong, silent, stoical and resilient. It can be seen on the “Texas Proud” T-shirts at the H.E.B., the grocery store chain that...
by Omega | Jul 24, 2025 | Environment
Your guide to finding accurate information, emergency kits, evacuations, protecting your home, and more if you’re at risk of a hurricane, wildfire, flood, or other disaster. Ideally, you’d have weeks or days to prepare for an extreme weather. But the reality is,...
by Omega | Jul 23, 2025 | Resilience
For centuries, Western medical practice has focused on what makes us sick. Yet as the Earth’s systems fray under the cumulative stress of industrial modernization, a more radical proposition is emerging: what if the key to health lies not merely in avoiding illness,...
by Omega | Jul 22, 2025 | Environment
We welcome you to the kitchen table of the legendary eco-spiritual teacher Joanna Macy, where we’ll dive into what it takes to live with our hearts and integrity intact in this time of global crisis. You’ll be guided into these conversations by Jess Serrante, a...
by Omega | Jul 21, 2025 | Polycrisis
When facing the realities of our world, the urge to drown in grief or shut down into apathy is becoming more and more common. As we are flooded with information and global predicaments outside of our control, overwhelm can set in, affecting our energy, efficacy, and...
by Omega | Jul 18, 2025 | Environment
On a clear winter day the world starts to spin backward. The sun rises over New York City, sputters at its midday height, and then sets eastward over the Atlantic. The trade winds reverse course; the ocean currents turn retrograde. Rain begins to fall in the Sahara...
by Omega | Jul 17, 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 16, 2025 | Polycrisis
Using Gramscian and Fanonian theories, this paper examines counter-hegemony through two 20th-century movements: Italian mondine (rice weeders) and the Black Panther Party. These movements met crises of social reproduction with collective political action, developed...
