Environmentalism Archives

(Nurpalah Dee)

Unlearning Some Western Mindsets

July 31, 2019June 1, 2020 Jeff Savage 0 Comments Agriculture, Christianity, Environmentalism, Parenting, Schooling min read

An over-reliance on our Western Mindset creates several obstacles to human flourishing—informing agriculture, education, work, and parenting.

Become this delicate earth gardening Erraticus

(Vardan Harutyunyan)

Arts Ideas

Become This Delicate Skin of the Earth

July 28, 2019June 1, 2020 Jeanell Innerarity 0 Comments Death, Environmentalism, Gardening min read

When we each return to the earth, we can be secure in knowing that we are part of the grand planetary story, not separate from it.

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 Charlie Deist 0 Comments Climate Change, Environmentalism, Politics min read

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

(Boris Smokrovic)

Essays Psychology

Honeybees and Zen During Ecological Collapse

February 14, 2019June 1, 2020 Heather Swan 0 Comments Ancient Wisdom, Buddhism, Environmentalism, Nature min read

Honeybees don’t only inform us of further ecological collapse but invite us into being more mindful: present and compassionate.

(Yosh Ginsu)

Essays Featured Science & Tech

What Earthquakes Teach Us About Embracing Uncertainty

January 22, 2019June 1, 2020 Nicole Carloni 1 Comment Environmentalism, Epistemology, Essential Reading, Nature min read

For natural disasters large enough to reshape society, Dr. Lucy Jones explains, “The best fit to the data is that it’s random. And we hate it. Random makes people really upset.” But such uncertainty doesn’t have to leave us feeling helpless—we should embrace the inherent chaos of the universe.

(Andrew James)

Ideas Society & Culture

Loss of Indigenous Languages Limits Our Insights from Nature

October 12, 2018June 1, 2020 Rosalyn R. LaPier 0 Comments Environmentalism, Language min read

Language loss can be considered as extreme as the extinction of a plant or an animal—regarding indigenous languages in particular.

(Igor Miske)

Interviews Society & Culture

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

September 24, 2018June 1, 2020 Jeffrey Howard 0 Comments Climate Change, Environmentalism, Myth, Polarization, Postmodernism, Truth min read

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

A New Romanticism Erraticus Albert Bierstadt Storm Rocky Mountains

("Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie" by Albert Bierstadt, 1866)

Featured Ideas Science & Tech

‘Enlightenment Now’ Demands a New Romanticism

July 31, 2018June 3, 2020 Jim Kozubek 0 Comments Environmentalism, Nature, Neuroscience, Romanticism, William James min read

There are many who say that Romanticism is dead. But the tensions between Romanticism and the soldiers of the original Enlightenment are rising up again.

(Tomasz Bazylinski)

Ideas Science & Tech

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

July 30, 2018June 3, 2020 Ted Nordhaus 0 Comments Climate Change, Environmentalism, Nature min read

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

(Martin Vysoudil)

Featured Ideas Science & Tech

Treating Carbon Emissions Like Trash Collection Could Reverse Climate Change

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

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.