The harsh realities of climate change are becoming more visible and dangerous throughout the world according to the latest assessment of the IIPC.
The Great Decline
A dramatic decline in sperm counts is occurring around the world — more than 50 percent over five decades. This means a man today likely has only half the number of sperm that his grandfather did.
The return of Aztec floating farms
In Mexico City, a 700-year-old Aztec farming technique is giving a sustainable edge to modern agriculture
A new effort aims to catalyze big picture thinking by philanthropy about global stressors
These are some of the top stressors on the planet and the human race—and while each is well-recognized, what’s nowhere near as well understood is the manner in which they’re connected and interdependent.
We Are the Middle of Forever
Edited by Dahr Jamail  and  Stan RushworthÂ
An innovative work of research and reportage, We Are the Middle of Forever places Indigenous voices at the center of conversations about today’s environmental crisis.
How do you know if you’re living through the death of an empire?
It’s natural that we expect the end of a story—the end of an empire—to have some drama. The reality is far less exciting.Â
Are we on the eve of a nuclear disaster?
The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is the largest power plant in the Ukraine and in Europe—some of the major protections against meltdown have been severely damaged by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Europe is on edge and much of the world recognizes that we are facing the possibility of a nuclear meltdown as a result of the invasion: the Omega Collaborative brought these risks front and center in March with a webinar, Ukraine–Nuclear Safety & Nuclear Security by Dr. Tatsujiro Suzuki.
Mutual Accompaniment and the Creation of the Commons
By Mary Watkins
This timely and pathbreaking volume maps a radical model of accompaniment, exploring its profound implications for solidarity. Psychosocial and ecological accompaniment is a mode of responsive assistance that combines psychosocial understanding with political and cultural action.
Designs for the Pluriverse
By Arturo Ecobar
In Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design’s world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attuned to justice and the Earth.
Numbers Don’t Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World
by Vaclav Smil
From Earth’s nations and inhabitants, through the fuels and foods that energize them, to the transportation and inventions of our modern world – and how all of this affects the planet itself – in Numbers Don’t Lie, Professor Vaclav Smil takes us on a fact-finding adventure, using surprising statistics and illuminating graphs to challenge lazy thinking.
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