“I Have Decided to Stick with Love”
Dear Reader, Today, I am thinking about love. A fraught, confusing, full-of-potential kind of love. It’s like this: I’m writing to you on the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr.,
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Winter 2021: What the Rest of the World Knows The Better Ideas issue sparked conversations about potential solutions to some of the ongoing challenges facing the United States, from our
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Jeremy Lent is an author whose writings investigate the patterns of thought that have led our civilization to its current existential crisis. His recent book, The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural
Evolving Into an Ecologically Civilized State of Mind
David evolved from a self-described “conservative young Republican” who traveled the world hoping to “save” other cultures from communism, to a collaborative thought leader who calls out the outsized influence of corporations and passionately advocates for global societies to move toward an ecological civilization.
A Little Cat in a Big War
In “The Little War Cat,” concepts of war and trauma are introduced to young children in a way that is age-appropriate and invites them to feel empathy.
The American Myths of Bigger and Better
Instead of insisting on superlatives amidst spiking inequalities and insurgent fascism, we should be striving toward policies that are socially responsible and work to establish decent baselines.
In a World on Fire, Is Nonviolence Still an Option?
“How To Blow Up a Pipeline” is not in fact a manual, but rather a treatise inviting the climate movement to widespread sabotage and property destruction, and it is surprisingly compelling.
The Page That Counts
Percentage of interactions with trans-related Facebook content by right-leaning sources that push anti-trans narratives, such as exaggerating the rate of de-transition: 65.7% 1 Number of Twitter “likes” on J.K. Rowling’s
Re-Visionary Artists
These creators are reclaiming their pasts and futures through transformative art.
How to Bring Nature Into Your Daily Life
The key is to make it feel like a daily gift.
Get Past The Sting For a Cup of Tea
A cup of Nettle tea can help fortify blood, build bones, increase energy levels, improve circulation, and decrease inflammation and oxidative stress in the body.
How To Awaken Our Ecological Psyche
Rekindle the deep memory of where we come from.
The Gift of Ecological Humility
These Afro-Indigenous practices challenge ideas of human supremacy.
Reclaiming Our Common Home
Expand the commons to include everything we need.
A Nearly True Story: The Tale of the Hamlet
Sometime in the future of the After Times, a group of neighbors relearn how to grow food in community—and feel joy amid uncertainty.
Living Ecologically Is Illegal
The Rights of Nature movement offers a solution.
Three Cities Switching To Life-Affirming Economies
“Doughnut economics” invites nature
and social well-being into urban planning.
What Does An Ecological Civilization Look Like?
A society based on natural ecology might seem like a far-off utopia—yet communities everywhere are already creating it.
Toward an Ecological Civilization
The path toward an ecological civilization moves us from an uncivilized society based on selfish wealth accumulation to one that is community-oriented and life-affirming.
A Reset for Unprecedented Times
Buen Vivir is both a philosophy and a lived practice that puts Earth at the center of “the Good Life.”
Workers Flex for Social Justice
Never underestimate the power of direct action.
Hurricane Relief Through Mutual Aid
Three groups using mutual aid as a tool for natural disaster response.
The Page That Counts
Number of Senate votes needed to remove an impeached justice from the Supreme Court: 671 Number of times an impeached Supreme Court justice has been successfully removed: 02 Number of
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