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An artistic depiction of a person harvesting vegetables from a field for community supported agriculture.
Advocates of community supported agriculture believe their radical model addresses many of the problems that plague large-scale farming today.
Essays Society 

Community Supported Agriculture Isn’t Just Another Way to Get Fresh Food

April 11, 2022August 28, 2022 12 min read Jared Spears Agriculture, Climate Change, Community, Localism

Advocates of community supported agriculture believe their radical model addresses many of the problems that plague large-scale farming today.

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Let A Thousand Green New Deals Bloom Erraticus Image by Climate Reality Project
(The Climate Reality Project)
Essays Science & Tech 

Let a Thousand Green New Deals Bloom

February 26, 2019June 1, 2020 12 min read Charlie Deist Climate Change, Environmentalism, Politics

We don’t need a Green New Deal so much as many green new deals.

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Awakening the Soul Challenge to Life in the Post-truth World Erraticus Image by Igor Miske
(Igor Miske)
Culture Interviews 

‘Awakening the Soul’: One Man’s Challenge to the Post-truth World

September 24, 2018May 19, 2021 18 min read Jeffrey Howard Climate Change, Environmentalism, Myth, Polarization, Postmodernism, Truth

A new book protests the postmodernist refutations of shared truth and grand narratives—we struggle because we lack story and soul.

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Earth's Carrying Capacity for Human Life Is More Than You Think Erraticus Image by Tomasz Bazylinski
(Tomasz Bazylinski)
Ideas Science & Tech 

Earth’s Carrying Capacity for Human Life Is More Than You Think

July 30, 2018June 3, 2020 7 min read Ted Nordhaus Climate Change, Environmentalism, Nature

The claim that earth has a carrying capacity of 7 billion is based on old concepts—misunderstanding how fertility rates and consumption work.

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Treating Carbon Emissions Like Trash Collection Could Reverse Climate Change - Martin Vysoudil
(Martin Vysoudil)
Ideas Science & Tech 

Treating Carbon Emissions Like Trash Collection Could Reverse Climate Change

June 19, 2018June 3, 2020 7 min read Paul Gambill Climate Change, Environmentalism, Existentialism, Technology

We already have the technology to reverse Climate Change, but one great obstacle remains—Nori is a company that believes it can solve that problem, succeeding where political activism has not.

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A Pragmatic Approach to Ideas

An online publication focused on human flourishing, taking a pragmatic approach to ideas. We care about ideas that help us to live well together, focusing on their practical consequences.

 

“Pragmatism, on the other hand, asks its usual question. ‘Grant an idea or belief to be true,’ it says, ‘what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone’s actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth’s cash-value in experiential terms?'” — William James

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