New Future

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.

The increasing costs of climate-change linked disasters is pushing the insurance industry to the brink.

At its heart, food sovereignty is a people-led response to the existential threats and multiple crises facing agri-food systems.

After the more than two centuries since the American and French Revolutions, the kings are back -- or at least, trying to be. But we don’t have to be stuck in this strange cycle.

Crop diversification to improve the soil microbiome is key to the approach of the Andhra Pradesh Community-Managed Natural Farming movement.

“There were times over the past 20 years when we weren’t sure this would happen, ” James said. “But we never gave up hope. We took a stance and said, ‘We love our river. We love our fish. We love our natural resources. We love our culture. And we’re not shy about showing it. ’ That’s what Blue Creek means to us. That’s who we are. ”

Now, some history advocacy organizations are leaning into community-based education programs to continue teaching a more diverse and comprehensive picture of the nation’s past.

Examples like these are emerging across India, from the Narmada valley to Adivasi Villages in Achanakmar Tiger Reserve, where distributed renewable energy is transforming rural life and radically challenging the assumption that the energy transition must happen from above, placing more emphasis on what is happening below.

Perhaps the most holistic solution would be to regulate and limit the use of plastics for clothing and laundry applications altogether.

AI seems to present a spectacular new slate of opportunities and threats. But, in essence, much of what was true before AI remains so now.

In this episode, Nate is joined by Helena Norberg-Hodge – a leading voice in the localization movement – to explore the deep systemic challenges posed by economic globalization.

Batteries have quickly become the fastest improving clean energy technology on the planet, exhibiting growth, cost reductions and improvements that overshadow the record-breaking rise of solar energy.

For me, the mountain on which I live, the animals and plants, the climate, the river and underground spring… actually the land and all it encompasses. .. this is also my community.

When you think of plastic pollution, you might imagine ocean “garbage patches” swirling with tens of millions of plastic bottles and shopping bags. But unfolding alongside the “macroplastic” pollution crisis is another threat caused by much smaller particles: microplastics.