Ideas don't come from nowhere, ex nihilo. They don't pop out of the sky. This is a Platonic vision of the ideal, that the idea sits whole, somewhere outside us, waiting to be apprehended. The reality is that ideas come from a confluence of experiences. Other ideas that morph and transform into some-thing, not a [...]
Next academic year’s incoming high school class will be the first to graduate on the other side of 2030. This matters because the year carries an unusual symbolic weight, perhaps greater than any other date in lived memory, even 2000. 2030. It is, in one sense, an arbitrary marker, a new decade in the Common [...]
Metabolic ontology begins from a simple observation: nothing lives by remaining what it is. Existence persists only through continual transformation, through the conversion of decay into the conditions for further life. Entropy is not disorder but the movement that makes order temporary. Biology calls this metabolism: the exchange of matter, energy, and information that maintains [...]
What if climate education contributed to the problem of ecological breakdown? What if it just delayed the inevitable? What if it was fool’s gold? This is a call for education that deepens reciprocity, not rebrand extraction. Climate change as a term itself is a euphemism for what promises to be physical and biological devastation. It’s [...]
Many of us think of sustainability as finding equilibrium. Let’s be carbon neutral. If we take stuff, we need to make sure to replenish materials. Let’s leave the planet in as good condition as we found it. Sustainability often means shooting for zero. The Brundtland Commission’s 1987 report Our Common Future, popularized sustainability as “meeting [...]
This article was published in IntrepidEd News on 5 May 2023. [T]he only true atom is the universe—that total system of interdependent "thing-events" which can be separated from each other only in name.—Alan Watts Regenerative practice can never be achieved or ticked off a list. Regenerative practice is just that, practice. Regeneration is dynamic and [...]
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