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Treating The Epidemic of Violence | Gary Slutkin

How using models for containing infectious diseases dramatically reduced violent crime all around the world

1d ago·2 min read·267 words

Why Individuals Matter

Why our distinctness from one another is as important as our connections with each other

3d ago·7 min read·1282 words

Building an Eco-Civilisation | Jeremy Lent

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May 28·2 min read·291 words

Remaking The World | David Farrier

Learning from nature, through art

May 21·2 min read·242 words

The F Word

Watch the most recent talk I gave at the ACSCC in April

May 18·2 min read·257 words

The Myth of Individual Responsibility | Michael Maniates

We can't change the world by voting with our wallets—but here's what we can do.

May 14·1 min read·23 words

The Eco-Crisis is a Feminist Crisis | Natasha Walter

The only liveable future is a feminist future—but only if we shape what feminism must become.

May 7·1 min read·25 words

When the world "collapses"

What we need to recover ourselves.

May 4·1 min read·10 words

Deep Ecology | John Seed

Learning to be—together.

Apr 30·1 min read·8 words

Oil and Vinegar

On land, loss and peace

Apr 27·1 min read·8 words

The Truly Sustainable Alternative | Julia Steinberger

How we can live well within limits

Apr 23·1 min read·14 words

Tech Titans Won't Save Us | Paris Marx

These technologists promise revolution—but not the kind any of us want to see. 

Apr 16·1 min read·21 words

Revolutionary Impotence

We can't tear down the conditions of our oppression because we don't know who we would be without them.

Apr 13·1 min read·21 words

How Finance Ruined Capitalism | Hettie O'Brien

Private equity owns our homes, nurseries, clinics and retirement homes—and it's sucking them dry.

Apr 9·1 min read·21 words

Everything could have been so different. One day it will be.

Lessons from the 20th and 22nd century.

Apr 6·1 min read·18 words

Reform, Not Revolution | Andrés Velasco

The former Minister of Finance in Chile on why we need growth

Apr 2·1 min read·18 words

Freedom, at the end of the world

We are nearing the limits of resources, international politics, and war. Can we be free if we do not overcome them?

Mar 30·1 min read·28 words

Founding Mothers | Laura George

The Founding Fathers were legal revolutionaries. But over two centuries on, the world needs an update.

Mar 26·1 min read·21 words

Labours of love

I want to hear more from you, the community. Here's how.

Mar 23·1 min read·14 words

How Mexico City Unleashed Its Political Imagination | Ashwin Ravikumar

Mexicans built a popular movement over a century of organising—and now they're using state power to finance revolutionary politics.

Mar 19·1 min read·29 words

How to make this senseless world make sense

It's all too much for any of us to handle alone

Mar 16·1 min read·19 words

Feeding The Future | Nicole Negowetti

Our fragile food systems are producing too much waste, pollution and not enough nutrition. To survive, we're going to need new food infrastructure.

Mar 12·1 min read·29 words

Thin, shaved and infantile: What the Epstein Files reveal about the misogyny shaping political power

Characterising Epstein’s world as "paedophilic" misses how patriarchy fears women’s empowerment

Mar 9·1 min read·26 words

Rojava: The Feminist Resistance in the Heart of the Middle East | Matt Broomfield

What we must learn from this remarkable political project which governed a territory the size of Lebanon whilst fighting back imperial forces from all sides.

Mar 5·1 min read·39 words

The Enemy of Your Enemy is Not Your Friend

The history of the Iranian regime shows just how closely political adversaries can work together to advance their own interests. Meanwhile, on the Left, criticising that regime makes you a political t…

Mar 2·1 min read·41 words

Designing Liveable Futures | Tatjana Schneider & Jeremy Till

What does climate breakdown to do architecture?

Feb 26·1 min read·16 words

Females vs Citizens

I'm having a baby this summer. I believe the roots of the tense relationship between motherhood and feminism shine a light on how to liberate Earth from Man's violence.

Feb 23·1 min read·32 words

The Copper Curtain | Art Berman

The USA, China, and the race to the bottom to control the West and the East.

Feb 19·1 min read·22 words

Lithium: The "Miracle" Mineral | Javiera Barandiaran

Lithium is branded as the cure-all to our fossil fuel dependence. But its history tells another story: that the solution to the world's problems is always more mining. 

Feb 12·1 min read·35 words

Epstein's Inner Circle Normalised His Sex Crimes — Because They're All Guilty of Abuse

The Epstein Files reveal how sexual abuse sits hand in glove with capitalist exploitation

Feb 9·1 min read·28 words

Who Will Lead the Future? | Roger Hallam

Extinction Rebellion co-founder Roger Hallam on how to seize power, the merits of non-violence, and why he believes we need a universal theory of change.

Feb 5·1 min read·33 words

Can Non-Violence Save the USA?

The American public are being held hostage by a ruthless, murderous, unconscionable government. They will not listen to non-violent demands.

Jan 25·1 min read·25 words