And the lies that keep us from an aligned life. Two weeks before my 33rd birthday, in a wild turn of events, I got a job as a barista. When I left serving in 2023, I promised myself I’d never go back to service work. I felt that getting paid hourly diminished the value of my time—the value of me. I swore that life would be behind me. Yet, here I was, squelching on that promise only 3 years later, not unlike the deranged yet comfortable familiarity of getting back together with an ex after you said it was done for good.

There's a scene in V for Vendetta that I think will resonate with all of us right now. High Chancellor Adam Sutler sits at the head of a long table, surrounded by his cabinet, and he just says the "politically incorrect" truth. He doesn’t manage messaging. He doesn’t consult a communications strategist. He simply gives

Conserving what we have is easier than fixing what we've lost. At its most basic, capitalism’s core function is to turn nature into wealth. Even if that wealth was evenly and fairly distributed amongst every human (NEWSFLASH: It’s not), capitalism would still be problematic. There is only so much nature, and that nature, while breathtaking in scale, is finite. And here lies the crux of the matter because the avarice of our current economic system is seemingly infinite.

3ºC Neighbourhood is co-authored by CIVIC SQUARE and Dark Matter Labs as a new piece of research that seeks to understand the current risks UK urban neighbourhoods face over this century due to climate and ecological breakdown under a high emissions scenario, the likely result of which will be a rise in average global temperature of 3ºC.

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The Land Trust Alliance’s mission is to save the places people need and love by strengthening land conservation across America. We accomplish this by empowering and mobilizing land trusts in communities across America to conserve land — and connect people to the land — for the benefit of all.

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“We must root ourselves back in the land; the way the land speaks to us; the way we build on the land; the way that the land can nurture us, and the way the land nurtures itself.” This story marks an exciting moment that the past decade of our collective organizing has been in service of, and that the next decade will be committed to; the purchase of land to hold in perpetuity, as the foundation for social and ecological stewardship, to repair, build, adapt, and maintain regenerative neighborhood civic infrastructure together.

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If you’ve ever worked in community development, you’ve probably noticed that most efforts start with what’s broken (poverty, addiction, unemployment, poor health) and then try to fix those things by importing solutions from outside. Building Communities from the Inside Out turns that whole idea literally upside down. McKnight and Kretzmann argue that real change doesn’t

Kate Raworth (sounds like ‘Ray-worth’) is a renegade economist focused on making economics fit for 21st century realities. She is the creator of the Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries, and co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab. Her internationally best-selling book Doughnut Economics: seven ways to think like a 21st century economist has been translated into over 20 languages and has been widely influential with diverse audiences, from the UN General Assembly to Pope Francis to Extinction Rebellion.

I’ve been thinking about something lately. How much of what we “know” these days comes from watching rather than doing. We listen to podcasts. Watch videos. Read threads. Join chat forums. And eventually, it starts to feel like experience. Like we’ve been there. Like we understand it. Like a war reenactment enthusiast eventually might feel