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Ecovillage Response to the Climate Emergency
We may be the final generation of humans but we could still evolve into the first generation of eco-humans.
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Albert Bates
Comic Book Billionaire Accelerates Earth’s Demise to Populate Mars
“He obviously is a divisive individual and a person who acts as a catalyst….”
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Muddling Our Way to Earth 2.0
Putting ourselves onto a global 11-percent decline slope, we could be back at 1960 climate change levels by 2035. We needn’t be so harsh. Let’s give…
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Cool City Design: Stockholm’s Urban Forest Experiment
“People really love trees already, especially in Stockholm and in Sweden. I don't think that's the problem really…. It's more a problem with civil…
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August 2023
My New 12 Trillion-dollar Annual Budget
We’ll not have to tighten our belts anywhere.
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Drey’s Challenge
Many of the financial incentives that stripped the forests of Missouri in 1910 are still present in 2010.
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Missing the Ecosystems for the Trees
Will planting trees get us out of our climate pickle? Not entirely. But it could increase the world's natural drawdown of atmospheric carbon by 25%.
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Peak Carbon
Do offsets offer any way down?
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Thinking in Wholes
If there is a way out of our crisis, it will not be through the door we came in.
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July 2023
Upending the Climate Hockey Stick
Is anywhere safe?
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Debunking Climate Activist Prebunk
Pick your story: the Four Horsemen or Easter Island.
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Peter Minuit and the Gift Economy
When the Dutch “purchased” Manhattan for $26 in beads, it was a big misunderstanding.
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