by Omega | Jan 5, 2023 | Politics
People are shooting, sabotaging and vandalizing electrical equipment in the U.S. at a pace unseen in at least a decade, amid signs that domestic extremists hope to use blackouts to sow unrest. Catherine Morehouse Link to full article in Politico by Catherine...
by Susan Grelock Yusem | Dec 12, 2022 | Omega Resilience Awards, Resilience
HOMEF, the Omega Resilience Awards (ORA) partner in Africa, has just launched their search for fellows working to address the global polycrisis. Omega’s ORA fellowship program is designed to identify visionaries who can help their communities chart a path toward...
by Omega | Dec 5, 2022 | Culture
“People survive by passing information between themselves,” Lanier, 61, told the Guardian in an interview. “We’re putting that fundamental quality of humanness through a process with an inherent incentive for corruption and degradation. The fundamental drama of this...
by Omega | Dec 5, 2022 | Pandemics
Dr. Anthony Fauci reflects on his career and the future of infectious disease. As I prepare to step down from my dual positions at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), where I have been a physician-scientist for 54 years and the director...
by Omega | Dec 5, 2022 | Environment
The diptychs in this essay portray this connection by pairing my images of Antarctica with those of Louisiana. It is a visual dance of rhythms and patterns of two places so far apart, and yet whose fates are inextricably linked. Because, for me, combining photographs...
by Omega | Dec 5, 2022 | Economy
Banks and investors have already committed to financing more fossil fuel development than the planet’s atmosphere can safely absorb, according to London-based Carbon Tracker. If we have a chance of keeping average global heating below 1.5°C – a boundary...
by Omega | Nov 21, 2022 | Omega Resilience Awards, Worldviews
It is an honor and a special opportunity for us to be part, from the beginning, of this necessary and promising project. It has challenging objectives: to generate awareness and resilience in relation to the polycrisis. And it combines essential ingredients to achieve...
by Susan Grelock Yusem | Nov 20, 2022 | Omega Resilience Awards, Worldviews
Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) is pleased to be partnering with the Omega Collaborative and Commonweal in executing the Omega Resilience Awards (ORA) programme through the Omega Resilience Awards – Africa (ORA – Africa) platform. We are excited about...
by Susan Grelock Yusem | Nov 20, 2022 | Polycrisis
Pandemic, drought, floods, mega storms and wildfires, threats of a third world war — how rapidly we have become inured to the list of shocks. So much so that, from time to time, it is worth standing back to consider the sheer strangeness of our situation. As former US...
by Susan Grelock Yusem | Nov 20, 2022 | Politics
A more nuanced depiction of voters and issues can help newsrooms better report on elections and political campaigns In writing about Sarah Palin and her 2022 bid for Congress, T.A. Frank made a promise to readers — and to himself. A past Palin critic, Frank set out on...
