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 →
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 →
The Possibility of a World that Works for Everyone
Can we imagine a new possibility for humanity? It may not seem probable or even plausible, but it remains a powerful idea, an idea that reveals a great deal that is positive about who we are. In a WorldThatWorks.org, we revisit the work of Buckminster Fuller, Werner Erhard, and others that suggests that we have the capability of embracing a… Read more →
Shifting Societal Norms
Most people are aware of bad things happening, but they think it’s someone else’s fault, and someone else’s responsibility to do something about them. And they are not always wrong. Mass consumer behavior is designed and engineered to support over-consumption. But the problems of micro plastics, PFAS, and other toxic wastes are created by industries trying to sell us things… Read more →
Breaking the Cycle: Toward an Evolutionary Leap
“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” —Arundhati Roy The world today feels precarious, on the edge of unraveling. The war in Ukraine grinds on. The devastation of Gaza continues with heartbreaking intensity. Iran is under siege. Everywhere, the air seems thick with fear, suspicion, and anger.… Read more →