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Critical Minerals? There’s a Plant for That
But what phytomining could do is produce some metal while also remediating degraded land, sequestering carbon, and serving as the fuel for energy production or the raw material for biochar fertilizer, syngas, and other chemical creations.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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COP30 – Climate Course-Correction or Another Collision Course?
Hopes are high. Expectations are low. Change is happening, it is just painfully slow. We need this to be the 'delivery COP'. One thing is for sure, COP30 will be make or break for people, our precious flora and fauna, and our planet as a whole.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Washington denials and AI bailouts
The AI industry is fishing for a federal bailout. Why?
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November 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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The Food You Eat Is Poisoned: Decolonizing Agriculture and Reviving Ecological Knowledge in Kurdistan
The call of ‘The Food You Eat Is Poisoned’ brings us to realize that we are all touched by the same industrial system — and healing must be collective.
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November 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Toward a New Common Sense of Abundance
Common sense is contested terrain.
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November 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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The descent
Let’s continue our descent into collapse. First, let me be clear: “I don’t know” (credit to Nate Hagens). You don’t either. We can’t know or predict something as complex as a human society and its trajectories.
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November 8, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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The Trees at the Center of Our History
Recovering the meaning the white pines, and other trees had for past generations, and—like Mayer’s project with Charles Johnson’s oak—finding imaginative ways to add new meaning and propagate it forward can play a significant role in helping us to reorient the trajectory of the history we make going forward in a more respectful and sustainable direction for all.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Engineering Infinite and Eternal Extinction – A review of More and More and More and More Everything Forever
Fressoz’s book deals primarily with the creation of myths about energy futures; Becker’s with the creation of myths about futures in space. They overlap in their consideration of why such myths are created. Who pays for them to be created; who benefits from their creation?
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November 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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My Bowl of Cereal
And so, as I dig into my bowl of cereal every morning, I’m thinking about a whole lot more than just the fiber in my diet. I’m thinking about how it’s time to bring Gaia back into focus, at the center of our thoughts and conversations and practices, every day.
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November 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Hacking Human Attachment: The Loneliness Crisis, Cognitive Atrophy, and Other Personal Dangers of AI
In this episode, Nate is joined by Nora Bateson and Zak Stein to explore the multifaceted ways that AI is designed to exploit our deepest social vulnerabilities, and the risks this poses to human relationships, cognition, and society.
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November 7, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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What Is the Commons—And Why Does It Matter Today?
Once we recognise the principles of commoning, we start to see them everywhere: neighbours sharing childcare or tending a community garden. Local repair cafés and tool libraries. Digital communities building and maintaining open-source projects on the Internet.
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November 6, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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The Future Requires a Politics of Relationality
Relationality is ultimately not a work of social science or politics, but a biologically and spiritually informed vision of life.
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November 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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When Space Becomes Silly
The question, then, is: when will we collectively become comparably dismissive of proposals for humans in space?
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November 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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What Futures Are Possible?
Community-scale and bioregional-scale responses to the Great Unraveling invite personal action and lead both to convivial social arrangements and to the discovery of ways to live more in cooperation with, less in domination of, the web of life.
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November 6, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Crazy Town: Episode 113. Searching for the Golden Toad with Kyle and Trevor Ritland
Frog and Toad Are Friends, at least according to a venerable children's book. And so are Jason (Crazy Town's resident biology nerd) and conservationist brothers, Kyle and Trevor Ritland, authors of The Golden Toad: An Ecological Mystery and the Search for a Lost Species.
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November 5, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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How Sudanese women are building lifelines from the ashes of war
Across Sudan, women are resurrecting nafeer, an ancient practice of communal solidarity, adapting it into a decentralized network of survival that functions where the state has collapsed.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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With federal climate progress stalled, Simplify Solar advances local solutions
If successful, this work will lead to improved accessibility of home renewable energy systems for people all over the United States. This would help counteract some Trump administration efforts to remove renewable energy incentives, while laying the groundwork for rapid growth of renewables when the national political environment shifts again.
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November 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Planting Seeds of Quiet Agroecological Resistance in South Africa’s Fields
The food garden revolution that is stirring in South Africa is quiet, but it is rooted in dignity, agency, and transformation. In their gardens, these women are sowing more than seeds; they are sowing peace, power and the foundations for a better future.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Beyond AI Futurism: A Socio-Ecological Vision for AI
We must engage in a deliberate act of political imagination: to recognise that AI’s path is not predetermined by Big Tech, but is contested terrain – a technology that can either concentrate power or strengthen democracy, accelerate ecological collapse or support sustainability.
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November 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Climate Justice at the University: Integrating Struggles for Liberation
With universities being highly enmeshed with corporate money that comes from fossil fuel industries, does it even make sense to have universities? And how exactly do we move from profit-seeking science research that advances weapon technology to liberation?
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November 4, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Beyond crisis
We don’t have simple answers where we can just say, right, ‘That’s what we need to do’. So we need to do things locally, individually, in community from the grassroots.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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The Quadruple Bifurcation
In this week’s Frankly, Nate outlines four bifurcations that are likely to underpin the human experience in the near future.
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November 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Regenerative Economics: Excerpt
It is our task, now, to bring our economic system into alignment with the regenerative process. When we do, like turning a canoe downstream after a long struggle against the current, our journey will be lightened, our destination assured.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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U.S.-China trade dispute resolution leaves China with huge leverage over global electronics industry
Even with the seeming resolution of the China-US trade war, China is still capable of denying key resources to the world's electronics manufacturers at any time.
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November 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Terror Management Theory: How Existential Dread Has Shaped the World
In this episode, Nate is joined by Sheldon Solomon, a psychologist and co-developer of Terror Management Theory, which posits that while all living beings strive to survive, humans are unique in knowing that death is unavoidable.
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November 2, 2025 at 4:51 PM