“Things are worse than we think, but they can’t really talk about it.” He presses them. How bad is it, really?

[Movement Generation’s Three Circles Strategy Chart6 is a tool to help you do that.]

Here, Richard Heinberg and his team at the Post-Carbon Institute return from their deep dives into economic trends and energy metrics to tell us “the Game is over” and we

You don’t need to “save the world”; it’s already made other plans.

But Gopal is very clear: the future is not a void, it has a terrain. It’s a treacherous terrain, but it has its points of intervention where collective action can gain leverage and make a difference.

was a shift in identity. I saw them start to move beyond their self-interest to speak as the Earth; it was as if the Earth was working through us. This I had not expected, and it blew me away. It was a liberation from the separate ego. And, once that happens, then you’re ready to do so much more. Your caring is so big. Andrew: And how has the work

Andrew: One of the attitudes that surfaced in the conversations I’ve held is: “I’m going to drown with my boots on!” There’s a dignity in it — similar, maybe, to the kind of dignity you’re talking about here — and there’s also a commitment to fight to the end because who knows what’s possible. Or, as you say in the Eco Buddhism interview: “It looks

Consider the busy parent who’s just not paying attention.

In our world of relative comfort and convenience, it’s easy to convince ourselves that we have created everything for ourselves, that we’ve earned all this. We’ve lost sight of the fact that this life is a gift, that all that sustains us is a gift. We’ve lost touch with that sense of gratitude, the same way we’ve lost touch with our mortality. The