by Omega | Apr 12, 2023 | Environment
By Rajendra Jadhav India is likely to experience heat waves between March and May, especially in the key wheat producing central and northern states, the weather office said on Tuesday, as the country recorded its highest ever maximum temperature in February....
by Omega | Apr 12, 2023 | Polycrisis
For the better part of a decade, scholars and writers across the globe have lamented the growing prevalence of misinformation, conspiracism, ideology, mistrust of experts, epistemic bubbles and echo chambers. These scourges make it much harder to solve...
by Omega | Mar 30, 2023 | Watchlist, Webinar
Hosted by Michael Lerner, this conversation discusses Alnoor and Lynn’s new book Post Capitalist Philanthropy: Healing Wealth in the Time of Collapse. Post Capitalist Philanthropy takes us on a journey from the history of wealth accumulation to the current logic...
by Omega | Mar 23, 2023 | Polycrisis
By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, originally published by Resilience.org Link to Crazy Town podcast Episode 65
by Omega | Mar 16, 2023 | Worldviews
There was, however, no mystery at all. The unrest was not a simple factional struggle, nor accumulations of long-repressed social demands; it was the expression of deep political frustration and fatigue with an entrenched and rotten political system. Protesters were...
by Omega | Mar 16, 2023 | Environment
In the face of continuing climate change and other environmental as well as infrastructural factors causing devastating flood episodes, the guide becomes an important piece for communities and parties concerned about assisting communities to survive flood episodes....
by Omega | Mar 16, 2023 | Economy
The world today stands on the edge of a precipice – faced with a confluence of severe crises including deepening poverty and inequality, a looming ecological disaster, heightened risk of nuclear warfare, recurring natural disasters and a sharp deterioration of civic...
by Omega | Mar 9, 2023 | Books, Nonfiction, Resilience
This book is the bone-rattling equivalent of a visit to the wild shaman’s house: you’d suppose you made the brief trip to get some medicinal items, but there are often more things in their brew than are dreamt of in your plans. Bayo Akomolafe By Alnoor Ladha &...
by Susan Grelock Yusem | Feb 28, 2023 | Books, Fiction, Polycrisis
As ‘The Displacements’ slows down and sinks into the frustrations of life in a massive relief camp, the story recalls the Houston Astrodome after Katrina — except that here we witness what one character sardonically labels a ‘catastrophe of...
by Omega | Feb 27, 2023 | Worldviews
The end of history is perhaps best understood as a threshold of complexity beyond which the present is uninhabitable for collective imaginations at the scales we yearn for. Only atomized individuals and unsatisfyingly small tribes can make the journey from past to...
