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Human Nature Odyssey, Episode 26. Can Games Save The World From Bureaucracy? With C. Thi Nguyen

Wed, 09/02/2026 - 01:01
How did humans go from living in small-scale communities where everyone knew each other to building a massive civilization filled with billions of strangers? Philosopher C. Thi Nguyen, author of "The Score," joins the odyssey to explore the strange relationship between games and large-scale society.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

How restoration efforts helped Marinette County recover its forests, streams, and future

Wed, 09/02/2026 - 01:00
Marinette County could well become a model of sustainability. However, sprawling development may impede its progress as the next iteration of an economic threat to ecosystems.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

In Memoriam: Wendell Berry, agrarian, writer, and voice of conscience

Wed, 09/02/2026 - 01:00
In a world of AI and data centers and phones in our pockets that demand continual attention, Berry’s voice remains as important as ever.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Trump’s AI obsession will add immeasurably to extreme heat

Tue, 09/01/2026 - 01:00
Whatever else AI may do, its data centers will consume vast amounts of energy and keep driving fossil-fuel emissions for years to come, lending us humans a distinct helping hand in overheating this planet
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Proposed Federal changes to grant rules increase uncertainty and risks for farmers

Tue, 09/01/2026 - 01:00
Funding freezes, grant terminations, program cancellations, and a woefully understaffed USDA have disrupted the programs and services farmers and rural communities rely on to build environmentally resilient and economically viable businesses.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

How eco-localism differs from tariff terrorism

Tue, 09/01/2026 - 01:00
As soaring consumer prices, supply chain disruptions, and reductions in government-provided funding and services threaten communities, localists can help bolster local markets and inspire mutual aid efforts, helping mobilize folks to take more responsibility for their own collective resilience and well-being.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

‘Goliath’s Curse’: Author Luke Kemp charts the rise and collapse of societies ruled by elites, but offers no way forward – book review

Mon, 08/31/2026 - 01:00
Kemp’s views on the emergence and nature of the state are debatable, but his insistence on the historical significance of the emergence of Goliaths is not.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Indigenous women already have the climate solutions

Mon, 08/31/2026 - 01:00
Three emerging feminist leaders have a vision for real climate action — and it starts with centering the voices of youth, women and Indigenous people.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

‘It is possible to find academic spaces where radical ideas can be created’: A defence of academia at the end of the world

Mon, 08/31/2026 - 01:00
As authoritarianism, military tensions, and temperatures rise, it is easy to look at the end of the world as we know it and ask what the point of academia is.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Forest Service “restructuring” is bad news for public lands

Fri, 08/28/2026 - 01:00
The Trump administration's "restructuring" plans for the Forest Service will torpedo federal capacity to manage national forests, close regional offices, and shutter more than half of its research labs.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

‘Studies in Happiness’: What Japan can teach us about thriving beyond economic growth

Fri, 08/28/2026 - 01:00
While degrowth in Europe is often framed as a deliberate choice, Japan’s version is distinctive - and instructive. Japan offers a rare set of living experiments in how communities can actually function, and even thrive, without growth as the organizing goal.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Inside the struggle to dismantle America’s greenhouse gas data

Mon, 08/24/2026 - 01:00
New accounts show the oil and gas industry trying to weaken methane reporting while saving the federal emissions system it relies on.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Are we in a multipolar world yet?

Mon, 08/24/2026 - 01:00
Everyone is now on board with the theory of multipolarity. But now that it’s mainstream that unipolarity is dead, it’s time to ask: is the world actually becoming multipolar?
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

What fighting back actually looks like

Mon, 08/24/2026 - 01:00
In an old cottonwood tree in Arizona, a small group of Americans are doing what lawsuits and letters couldn't.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Four food safety laws under threat from the ‘Save Our Bacon Act’

Fri, 08/21/2026 - 01:00
For several years now, a few Republican lawmakers and their Big Ag allies have pushed federal legislation to effectively preempt, or block, state food safety and animal welfare laws.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Building an earthship in South Australia – YouTube documentary review

Fri, 08/21/2026 - 01:00
More than just a record of the build, the film is a thoughtful exploration of the knowledge, values and community spirit behind Earthship construction.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

From seeds to survival: A farmer’s story from Tajikistan

Thu, 08/20/2026 - 01:00
For a farming community that depends on seasonal consistency, climate change creates uncertainty at every stage of production.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

How an ecosystem restoration community is regenerating water cycles to mitigate forest fires in Portugal

Thu, 08/20/2026 - 01:00
Rewetting and restoring wetlands, building small dams, and restoring streams create landscape-level discontinuities that interrupt how fire propagates by putting water back into the land rather than letting it run off. EcoAtivo is one organisation putting this directly into practice.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Researchers are finding evidence that fish feel pain. What does that mean for the ethics of seafood?

Thu, 08/20/2026 - 01:00
Fish are often treated as reflex-bound creatures, bodies without minds. Yet, study by study, from anatomy labs to behavioural experiments, mounting evidence to the contrary has emerged.
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

Crazy Town: Episode 130. Finding Crazy Town Part 2: Simplifying Complexity

Wed, 08/19/2026 - 01:01
What if the greatest strength of modern civilization—its incredible complexity—is also its greatest weakness?
Categories: B5. Resilience, Third Nature, and Transition

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