New Future

Algeria has everything it needs to become a great nurturing nation again: sunlight, water , vast lands, available hands, powerful knowledge, and deep faith. What it needs now is a shift in perspective, a coalition for life, a regenerative national strategy.

The colossal energy demands of artificial intelligence have earth-shaking implications for everyone. Already rising steeply, they are set to accelerate at a dizzying pace as various global powers race to be the first to achieve supreme intelligence over everything.

Nigeria’s food crisis is serious—but it’s also a massive opportunity. When households grow food, youths return to the land, and organizations like RUWAI lead the charge, we create a system that is resilient, just, and abundant.

Ever since 2020, a global organization called Local Futures has been organizing events in dozens of countries on June 21, when the planet’s northern hemisphere enters the summer solstice. There are films, webinars, and local events happening everywhere around the globe. And it’s a moment when all of us who feel isolated in our localist views can bond with thousands of colleagues worldwide.

The goal, here, is deep humility, a form of awe, and a sense of universal connectedness. As stupendously breathtaking as Life is, everything uses the same stuff and the same rules. We share a deep kinship with all matter, then. We are as dirt, and if that’s not grounding, I’m not sure what would be.

Asher, Rob, and Jason dig into the up-and-down story of the Ivanpah concentrated solar power plant, review the Harry Potteresque thinking behind complex, centralized power plants, and expose the truth of the energy transition.

When farmers face wet winters and dry summers, recharge can help store excess surface water, making it accessible during the growing season. In certain instances, like when farmlands are restored into floodplains, aquifer recharge can also double as habitat restoration for wildlife.

Sharing a border with Ecuador and Peru, the southern Colombian department of Putumayo takes its name from the Quechua term for “gushing river. ” For some, its landscapes are a sacred doorway to the Amazon rainforest, a world unfathomably greater than the human. For others, however, this land looks more like oilfields and military bases, optimized waterflood assets and strategic trafficking corridors.

As the Kurdish activist and ideologue Abdullah Ocalan, Mahatma Gandhi, many strands of the feminist and ecological movements, and Indigenous peoples have articulated in different forms, the nation-state disables true freedom - one in which every person and community is empowered to take decisions, in tune with nature.

In this week’s Frankly, Nate addresses how we, as humans, might adapt and take on characteristics that will allow us to face the coming challenges of our world head-on. Through a framework of “cultural mitochondria, ” Nate explores 10 traits that will help to shape the way we move through and address the human predicament.

When we work with groups for a long time, building a research agenda that is considered by all parties involved as a tool to continue working for accessing human rights for all, we may find quotidian ways to construct knowledge together.

With people and places as a lifeline, we can avoid losing what we hold dearest and protect this country and our communities forever more. I believe one thing to be true: We are stronger together. And we are not alone.

There’s a strong sense of wanting social justice in this part of the world. There’s a legacy of extraction of Wales’s natural resources, along with the highest levels of poverty in the UK. Plus the rising social, financial and ecological costs of fossil fuels.

How can a culture of responsible foraging actually come into being? My thought is that if you are a forager, you really should give back in actual reparative ways and perhaps find ways to forage that don’t negatively impact the limited public land and rare plant species we have.