Zimbabwean millennial Kirsty Coventry gets Olympic top job
Kirsty Coventry reacts after she was announced as the new IOC President at the International Olympic Committee 144th session in Costa Navarino, western Greece, Thursday, March 20, 2025.
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Anthropology for Kids and Visual Assembly Are Reimagining Work, Education, Money, and More
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Rigid thinking has been linked to social and professional problems, difficulty in adapting to societal change, and mental health issues that can lead to suicide and mass shootings.
The chall
What the world can learn from radical queer aid collectives in East Africa
One of the 26 executive orders Donald Trump signed on the first day of his presidency was a 90-day pause on foreign aid, which he said is often “not aligned with American interests”.
The subsequent suspension of overseas aid programmes has
Gaza: Israeli Military War Crimes While Occupying Hospitals
(New York) – Israeli military forces caused deaths and unnecessary suffering of Palestinian patients while occupying hospitals in the Gaza Strip during the current hostilities, amounting to war crimes, Human Rights Watch said today. Witness
A Gandhian approach to dialogue: The adversary is not the enemy
In this blog, part of our Food Sovereignty and Spirituality series, AgroecologyNow interviewed Siddharta, founder of Pipal Tree India, about the role of spirituality and religion in social action for climate justice, gender justice and inte
Solandium 2063: Playing for Change
How much joy is in your life these days? How much play in your resistance to all the fear, repression, violence, burnout, apathy, broke-ness, and brokenness? When you imagine the future, is it art?
These are not cute questions meant to nice
What if we could uncancel the future?
When Luigi Vitali interviewed me for Dust Magazine
[From Dust magazine: Original here]. Rob Hopkins, a pioneer in sustainability and community-driven change, believes that the future isn’t something we stumble upon—it’s something we activel
Leading By Example
Rosemary Nenini is a busy woman.
One of the founding members and manager of the Twala Tenebo Cultural Center, a collective owned and operated by a Maasai women’s group now comprised of 203 women, her life is completely dedicated to helping
Assessing Local Good life: The Art of Prioritizing ‘What Counts’ Together
In the midst of our ongoing systemic crisis, one question takes center stage: How do we define what genuinely matters? This question forms the nucleus of the Good Life1 Indicator Movement. With the current systemic upheaval prompting a thor
A Lagos community, destroyed in one day
A woman gestures in front of her demolished house in Otodo-Gbame waterfront in Lagos, Nigeria. Saturday, March 18, 2017. Slums and shantytowns are often targeted in rampant demolitions across Africa's most populous country
Afghans in Pakistan awaiting U.S. resettlement are stuck in a treacherous limbo
A former employee of Afghanistan's Defense Ministry walks in his neighborhood with his youngest daughter on Jan. 21, in Islamabad, Pakistan.
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Peter Strack – 2000-Watt Society: The Realities of Living a Low(er) Energy Lifestyle
(Conversation recorded on December 17th, 2024)
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Caught between increasing energy prices and rising carbon emissions, the idea of reducing our energy consumption is a practical and forward-looking necessity. Yet, with communiti
The founders of Bitcoin were transhumanists
The Extropy Institute was a think tank and ideas market for the future of social change brought about by consequential technologies. Extropians were transhumanists and it was from a group of extropians that Bitcoin was born, according to a
The meaning of Lent is limits
It is Ash Wednesday. In the Christian calendar, this day inaugurates the fasts of Lent. This is holy time, a period of 46 days of cleansing and purging the body and soul before the celebration of Easter. The time echoes the 40 days Jesus sp
Mutual Aid: Lessons from East Boston
This is a special bonus episode of the Cities@Tufts podcast!
Last fall, Tufts University Distinguished Senior Lecturer of Urban Environmental Policy and Planning, Penn Loh, hosted a discussion following the release of a new report, Mutual A