by Omega | Jan 26, 2024 | Community
Riverbed isn’t a commune or a typical farming community; it’s a land cooperative made up of 135 shareholders with a single goal: living independently of modern mass-scale systems of production. “True wealth is how long you can...
by Omega | Jan 26, 2024 | Economy
…the very way elites see problems and solutions are limited by their gaze and worldview, which create and perpetuate the crises in the first place. But they are also ineffective because that is their purpose: They are structured to uphold the status quo, not to...
by Omega | Jan 26, 2024 | Resilience
Learning to contend with uncertainty won’t completely fix the problems of our day. But at the start of a new year rife with high-stakes unknowns, we should rethink our outdated notions of not knowing as weakness, and instead discover this mindset as a strength. The...
by Omega | Jan 26, 2024 | Books, Nonfiction
“I propose to consider the question, ‘Can machines think?’ This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms ‘machine’ and ‘think.’ The definitions might be framed so as to reflect so far as possible the normal use of the words, but this attitude is...
by Omega | Jan 26, 2024 | Resilience
The Global Risks Report explores some of the most severe risks we may face over the next decade, against a backdrop of rapid technological change, economic uncertainty, a warming planet and conflict. As cooperation comes under pressure, weakened economies and...
by Omega | Jan 26, 2024 | Resilience
Kenya’s arid north is littered with roadside signs promoting “resilience” projects – initiatives supposedly designed to tackle drought emergencies, help pastoralist communities “bounce back”, and promote “sustainable” growth. Ian Scoones Read full article in The New...
by Omega | Jan 25, 2024 | Environment
Somehow she knew this time would come. The smoke-choked air from fire gone wild, the cresting rivers and rising seas, the sweltering heat and receding lakes, the melting away of civil society and political stability, the light-year leaps in artificial...
by Omega | Jan 16, 2024 | Pandemics
The thing that has surprised me most since I began my job leading foreign assistance for global health at the U.S. Agency for International Development is how much emergencies have defined my work. The bureau I oversee focuses on reducing the global burden of...
by Omega | Jan 16, 2024 | Culture
While rummaging through a bookstore in Iowa City decades ago I happened upon a slim volume with the intriguing title, Tao Teh King by Lao Tzu: Nature and Intelligence, translated by philosopher Archie Bahm. As a 20-year-old, I was in a state of full...
by Omega | Jan 15, 2024 | Worldviews
Record global temperatures are leading to increasingly harmful impacts, a cost-of living crisis is making everyday life harder for people around the world, and escalating tensions in the Middle East have the potential to widen into a broader regional conflict. Dorothy...
