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Iran war: What we’re in for and why logic is your friend A lot of nonsense is being communicated about the war with Iran.
08.03.2026 15:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Do Beavers Care About Climate Justice? By moving from seeing nature as something we - a distinct group causing harm - need to protect, to understanding it as a system we are actively involved in, battling climate change becomes less a concept of preservation and more a question of how we can help to shape a world that allows many beings to thrive.
06.03.2026 22:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Future of Forests Human communities have benefitted immensely from trees, but tree communities (i.e., forests) haven’t always fared so well in the bargain. What can we do differently to ensure a forested future?
06.03.2026 19:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Human Nature Odyssey: Episode 20: Joanna Macy & The Great Turning — with Jess Serrante Legendary activist Joanna Macy called this moment the Great Unraveling—a time when our ecological, political, economic, and social systems crumble. And yet, she also insisted that we stand on the threshold of a Great Turning: a profound transition toward a more just and sustainable world.
06.03.2026 16:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Could the West Lose the Resource Wars? AI, Rare Earths, and Economic Statecraft In this episode, Nate is joined by financial and economic analysts, Craig Tindale and Michael Every, to discuss the widespread implications of growing geopolitical tensions over scarce resources and the rapidly changing foreign policy and economic statecraft that countries are implementing in response.
05.03.2026 22:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Water and Security in the Middle East: Lessons from the Iranian Crisis Water, through its progressive scarcity, is redrawing the map of vulnerabilities and powers. Countries that make its management a factor of internal cohesion and regional cooperation will be better equipped for the decades to come.
05.03.2026 19:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ravmed: Where the Mountains Guard the Seeds of Life Ravmed’s story is not just about wheat. It is about people who refused to let their heritage disappear, who safeguarded what their ancestors handed down, and who continue—season by season—to plant a future rooted firmly in the past.
05.03.2026 16:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Escaping the Machine I want to stress that you will enjoy everything about localizing your life. You will be happier and healthier. You will have more time for the things that are important to you. After an initial investment in some things, your life will be less costly. You will need less income. You will take pride in the work that you do and in the community that you help build. And you will have that community.
04.03.2026 22:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A response to Jonathan Aldred: On the tortuous relationship between GDP and macroecological footprints Is decoupling happening, yes, or no? And if not, could it ever happen? Over the course of a few weeks, The Guardian published several pieces on the topic that may appear contradictory, arguing both that “economic growth [is] no longer linked to carbon emissions” and that “economic growth is still heating up the planet.”
04.03.2026 19:13 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Ecosphere Lessons The hunter-gatherer knows instinctively in their bones that separating oneself from ancient ecology is bonkers. Listen to them.
04.03.2026 16:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Britain’s Political Eruption And you don’t have to be much of a political strategist to work out that voters are going to punish a social democratic party for not looking after the health sector, or for a weak economy—one a core trusted issue, the other a basic test of government competence—more than they will for migration numbers that are misunderstood and repeatedly misrepresented.
03.03.2026 22:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ultra-Processed Information: AI and the Coming Deluge of Noise In this week’s Frankly, Nate explores the growing sense that many people feel disoriented and overwhelmed in a world increasingly saturated with digital content.
03.03.2026 19:12 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The Future is Local: Mitmach-Region Vorarlberg For centuries, social life in Europe was radically organized at the local level. Language, food, work, belonging, and identity were closely tied to specific places: landscapes, villages, and markets. Relationships were manageable and resilient. Place was not a backdrop — it was the system.
03.03.2026 16:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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NOW! IT’S TIME There are simpler, healthier paths we can take. With instability in more than our climate systems, it is time to examine where we live, where we draw the line.
02.03.2026 19:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Cathedral of Plastic: How We Manufactured a Year of Excess We need our autonomy back. And that starts with walking out of the toy store empty-handed and realizing that the most resilient thing we can give the next generation isn't a piece of plastic - it's a planet that isn't a graveyard for their old toys.
02.03.2026 16:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Could AI lead to the destruction of civilization? Shouldn't a technology that its creators admit has a nonzero chance of chance of wiping out human civilization be abandoned? Not according to the titans of AI.
01.03.2026 19:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Small-scale supply chains in action We are putting the concepts mentioned into action, experimenting to see if new scales and ecosystems are possible. This creates hyper-local, context-led action held gently by a wide boundary systems view and strongly held duties of care. We cannot wait to start producing our own tangible, hold-in-your-hand, outputs.
27.02.2026 19:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Why Science Communication Fails: How to Break Down Misleading Arguments and Inoculate Against Misinformation In this episode, Nate is joined by John Cook, a researcher who has spent nearly two decades studying science communication and the psychology of misinformation. John shares his journey from creating the education website Skeptical Science in 2007 to his shocking discovery that his well-intentioned debunking efforts might have been counterproductive.
27.02.2026 16:51 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The Darien Gap and Central America Biological Corridor: critical biodiversity hotspots and local adaptations following mass human migration The Darien is a hub of extraordinary terrestrial and aquatic diversity, a sanctuary of indigenous communities already devoted to protecting local wilderness, and habitat for endangered Apex predators, including the Harpy Eagle. It also, unfortunately, serves as an example of contemporary environmental and societal threats magnified by large-scale geopolitical changes.
26.02.2026 19:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Agrihouse at the Venice Architecture Biennale: cultivating climate resilience through land, water and collective policy When farmers, researchers, designers and policymakers work together, farms and bio districts can become true laboratories of resilience – capable of regenerating ecosystems while shaping fairer and more adaptive governance models.
25.02.2026 22:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Bus Driver on Mars To live outside of one’s ecological context—and in fact where no ecology of any relevance exists—would require somehow creating a suitable ecology, or borrowing a sufficiently-complete subset of an existing one that can tolerate a completely novel setting for which the beings are not adapted.
25.02.2026 19:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The EU confirms: it’s time for STRATEGIC adaptation Deep as we now are, tragically, in the age of consequences, only a more deeply deliberately transformative effort at responding smartly to the damage that is here and preparing for the unpredictably worse damage that is to come has any chance of being sufficient.
25.02.2026 16:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Youth Movement in a Post-Growth World We need all hands on deck to ideate new ways to equip the Youth Movement with a holistic, radical approach. To generate systemic change, young activists must be brave in their criticism of capitalism and growth. Unfortunately, they must also get comfortable with doubt, not knowing exactly what tomorrow will look like.
24.02.2026 22:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Wide Boundary News: Biodiversity Depletion, Iran & the Strait of Hormuz, and the Green Wedge This week’s Frankly is another edition of Nate’s Wide Boundary News series, where he invites listeners to view the constant churn of headlines through a wider-boundary lens. Today’s edition features reflections on renewable energy and CO2 emission trends, updates on species adaptability, and a discussion about nuclear treaties and Iran.
24.02.2026 19:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ice Breaking and Orchard Thoughts Keep records. Learn the new patterns — if there are any. Because the challenge we will be facing for decades to come is a seeming lack of pattern, and we humans don’t do well in random time.
24.02.2026 16:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Humanity as Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde: The Symptoms, Patterns, and Drivers In this week’s Frankly, Nate looks at how aggregate human behavior changes as groups scale from small tribes to large and complex societies. He uses the framing of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde throughout the episode to illustrate how traits that once helped small groups survive can serve to destabilize complex societies when expanded globally.
23.02.2026 19:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Regenerative agriculture: what works, works Some thirty years ago, one of the organic pioneers, Carl Haest, said about sustainable agriculture, “friend in the field, foe in the market”. That seems to hold also for regenerative agriculture.
23.02.2026 16:51 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Wars and rumors of wars: Iran edition An attack on Iran appears imminent. Here's why I think it's unlikely that we'll see President Trump "TACO" this time.
22.02.2026 22:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Lessons from the “Poor Man’s Cow” Shane has been busy with the next generation on and off the farm too, visiting schools with a herd of Old Irish Goats. Once a common sight in the Irish countryside, this rare native breed is helping to revive a cultural heritage that has lessons to teach us today, on biodiversity, wildfire management, and the transmission of knowledge from one generation to the next.
21.02.2026 16:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Building a Climate-Resilient MENA: Integrating Natural Cycles for Strategic Stability A climate doctrine must integrate resource mobilization, agricultural modernization, energy diversification, and territorial planning within a coherent framework—one that anticipates rather than reacts, protects rather than repairs, and organizes rather than fragments.
21.02.2026 02:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0