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Here is a rule that applies to everyday life, and also to the life in which the remains of civilized society unravel like a sweater's thread: movement and flow, strength and flexibility, and the ability to adapt are absolutely necessary. The laws of nature show us that water is both the gentlest and strongest force on earth. But society encourages us to be like small, brittle rocks, blown from here to there. Worn down by external forces. Crumbling at the least bit of opposit

Climate Change Rap Song: "Hell or High Water" by Dan Bull https://itsdanbull.com/ , / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXcnVGe_Uwc...

"Our days are numbered. Passionately pursue a life of excellence" —Guy McPherson S065 by Igor Morski. http://www.igor.morski.pl/ After discovering The Limits to Growt h nearly a decade ago and watching how the effects of climate change have drastically changed our world, I have come to accept that the collapse of civilization due to the damage that humans have caused had begun. What was it that first woke you up in this respect? After taking a couple of college courses in bi

In the United States of America, there has been a long tradition of trust—especially among the groups of people who haven't been systemically marginalized and discriminated against. Trust in this country, this government — trust that through all the tragedies, slavery, wars, economic depressions and recessions, that somehow, it will all turn out okay in the end. Trust that perhaps there is no end — that we are an immortal, endless empire, a country of vampires. But over the

It is the beginning of the summer in 2025, and I am still wearing a protective face mask. I wear it inside almost always (with the...

Most of the mainstream press is keen to blame it on “Greed-flation” , a term coined to describe the choices of grocery corporations to...

Nicole Nicole is pulling goddamn fucking field bindweed  out from her bed of arugula and bok choy when her mostly zen garden time is interrupted once more by thoughts of apocalypse. Her hands and fingers are tamping down the earth and grasping scissors to cut fresh arugula and place in it a colander for washing. Her mind is in a bright red nightmare of a burning sun, blistering skin, unstoppable viruses and fires—and then her vision shakes, as she imagines the biggest earthqu

Humans like to think of ourselves as separate from the animal world—as if, by evolving to walk on two legs and write, invent, build, that we are somehow a higher life form than other animals. That our  use of machines somehow separates us, elevates us. The agricultural and the industrial revolutions, both arising as a result of the booming population of earth, the gathered people in cities, the invention of modern civilization— did  move us further away from our natural roots

Jem Bendell made his name five years ago when the frustrated climate scientist posted a fifty-page PDF  on his website, Deep Adaptation , about how even with the revolutionary rise of bamboo toothbrushes and fair trade silver bellyscratchers, we probably can't avoid the collapse of the climate and therefore society, so it's worth thinking about how we can prepare for it. Importantly, it is not a question of dealing with a severe crisis in the functioning of a society that la

I was 5 years old when I first saw a horror film. It all began on Halloween night, when my brother, his friend and I were watching MTV and the video for Michael Jackson’s Thriller came on.   I was a huge fan of MJ at the time (it was the mid-80’s), and I loved that the video kind of scared me. My brother’s friend was talking about the scary movies they were going to watch, and I knew nothing about them, but I decided that I was going to watch them, too. My mom told me that th

In my mother tongue by Keren-Happuch Garba I sang the songs my own mother taught me In the language of her tongue With the rhythm of...

Some people out there have looked at the science, thrown their hands up and said “Oh well, it’s all over. I now have an excuse to do nothing and complain all day, because the world is ending.” Even more unfortunate is that some of these people are calling themselves Doomers, which I take offense to. I like Jem Bendell’s “Doomster”, and I find it to be a good way of replacing a word that has been used in a derogatory way to describe us—a  subculture of people who have decided

The earth is grossly overpopulated. Natural disasters are increasing in numbers and also in severity. If you just take a moment to look up from your phone, you will see a large part of society in straight-up, glassy-eyed denial. Simply paying attention to the news stories we see everyday is now ridiculed and called “doomscrolling” (unless we’re reading fluffy celebrity, sports , or political news). Doomsters are often compared with preppers, ignoring the big, glaring differen

*Originally written in August, 2021. This is the beginning of the extinction rebellion week called the ‘Impossible Rebellion’. I am not...

"Survival situations suck. Do all that you can to prevent them from happening in the first place." -Cody Lundin Cody Lundin, AKA AboDude...

Spoken Word Video and Text Below The Silence by John Biscello My friend who lives in the woods told me there’s a silence there he’s never...

Seasons, Extinction by Tawanda Jazz I imagine myself as a monk a rice farmer a solitary toad Zen beside moonlit pond I rake in the heat...

“I make myself rich by making my wants few.” – Henry David Thoreau Gathering rain to water your garden, growing a food forest in your...

Art by Huleeb, this month's Featured Artist. “I have witnessed my garden become a tool for the education, the transformation of my...

Like a lot of people, when I first heard of permaculture, I had no idea what it was, but I knew that it had something to do with growing...