Why is it that governments can decide to ban AI in schools, while others decide they need to implement AI literacies, and in one signing of a pen it's done, but nothing gets signed that would fundamentally change why we learn? Why can't we change curriculum, not to put sustainability in as a performative gesture, [...]
Most of the argument about AI in education is an argument about permission. Should we restrict it or allow it? Should we prohibit it or give it a different purpose? Neither of these will transform education, not so long as we hold the same values, and those values turn outcomes into ends. At Green School we [...]
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 [...]
