In Forsaking Cahokia, (https://open.substack.com/pub/collapsecurriculum/p/forsaking-cahokia-five-lessons-from?r=2bc8q&utm_medium=ios), the author describes walking away from a civilization that had become toxic. To what extent should we do this today? That’s a profound and unsettling question—and the Forsaking Cahokia essay is such a powerful lens for it. Read more →
Month: July 2025
Living into Balance, expanded
Listening for the Life Force We live in a time of undeniable peril. Every day the news brings fresh evidence of overshoot: aquifers running dry, forests burning, species vanishing. We know, if we are honest, that humanity is consuming and destroying far more than Earth can replenish. We are eating into the seed corn of the future. And yet, within… Read more →
Living into Balance
We live in a time of undeniable peril. Every day the news brings fresh evidence of overshoot: aquifers running dry, forests burning, species vanishing. We know, if we are honest, that humanity is consuming and destroying far more than Earth can replenish. We are eating into the seed corn of the future. And yet, within this bleak reality, another truth… Read more →
We Can Create an Earthly Paradise if We Choose
We live in a time when the prospect of collapse is all too real—fires, floods, deserts spreading, oceans acidifying, and species vanishing at a rate we once thought unimaginable. And yet, at this very moment, we also hold in our hands the knowledge, the tools, and the collective genius to heal the Earth and create something approaching paradise. It is… Read more →
PACE: The Promise and the Reality
It is important—indeed, essential—to invest in clean energy and to reduce emissions from buildings. Our homes, offices, schools, and factories collectively account for a staggering share of greenhouse gas emissions. And yet we know how to change this. We know how to make buildings far less energy‑intensive, how to switch them to renewable power, and how to design or retrofit… Read more →
Understanding Overshoot and Collapse
A recent Substack article by an unnamed author (“ItsOvershoot”) has exhaustively detailed the evidence for Understanding Our Collapsing World. Abrupt climate change. The sixth mass extinction. Collapsing Forests. Dead soil. Dry rivers. Acidic oceans. Coral reefs bleaching. Insects vanishing. Plastic in the air. Microfibers in your lungs. Nanoplastics in your blood. In your brain. In birds. In fish. In babies.… Read more →
AI Review of “Global 4C: World Monetary Union for Climate Change Mitigation”
From Academia.edu (AI source unspecified): In the following review, I aim to provide a detailed evaluation of the work titled “Global 4C: World Monetary Union for Climate Change Mitigation,” authored by Delton B. Chen, Jonathan Cloud, and Joel van der Beek. This paper was an attempt to address the monumental challenge of climate change through an innovative economic and monetary… Read more →