by Omega | May 9, 2025 | Environment
The pervasive narrative surrounding the ecological transition in advanced liberal democracies, particularly in France, has hit a brutal reckoning with reality. Far from a smooth, technocratically managed glide path towards sustainability, the transition project is...
by Omega | May 2, 2025 | Resilience
This handbook explains how to read and draw a causal loop diagrams (CLD)–a systems mapping technique that helps us to think through our mental model of a system, increase our understanding of a system, and communicate our knowledge to others. It clarifies some common...
by Omega | May 1, 2025 | Worldviews
Finally, it’s important to acknowledge the ways in which retrenchment of global health research and support is in keeping with attacks on health research and higher education more generally. The retraction of NIH grants, for example, has jolted U.S. academic medical...
by Omega | May 1, 2025 | Environment
The world is fast approaching temperature levels where insurers will no longer be able to offer cover for many climate risks, said Günther Thallinger, on the board of Allianz SE, one of the world’s biggest insurance companies. He said that without insurance, which is...
by Omega | Apr 30, 2025 | Environment
In a world where the globalized economy has failed to bring peace and prosperity, many of us are feeling the call to reconnect – with each other, with place, and with the living systems that sustain us. Now more than ever, there is a growing need to root our...
by Omega | Apr 29, 2025 | Politics
Already, Canadians in every walk of life are discussing privately how they’re prepared to protect our homeland. True, in any violent contest between Canada and the U.S., we can’t possibly win in a conventional sense. But we can ensure in advance that an authoritarian,...
by Omega | Apr 28, 2025 | Environment
In the future, real communities – people near you who can actually help you reliably access food, water, warmth, electricity, repairs, early warnings against disasters, etc – will again become increasingly important. Our future will be in part ever newer, as we enter...
by Omega | Apr 25, 2025 | Environment
“A bioregion can be determined initially by use of climatology, physiography, animal and plant geography, natural history and other descriptive natural sciences. The final boundaries of a bioregion, however, are best described by the people who have lived within it,...
by Omega | Apr 24, 2025 | Books, Nonfiction
A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results Systems Thinking for Social Change enables readers to contribute more effectively to society by helping them understand what systems thinking is and why it...
by Omega | Apr 24, 2025 | Books, Nonfiction
One City’s Response to a record-breaking drought Day Zero is an opportunity to capture some of the perspectives and experiences of the various sectors as the water crisis played out. It explains the different roles, responsibilities, and responses in a way that...
