By Max Borders
Inanna, the Sumerian goddess of love and beauty, descended into the Underworld to confront her sister, Ereshkigal, the queen of death and darkness. As she traveled through each gate of the Underworld, Inanna was forced to remove a piece of her royal attire. After passing through each gate, she stood naked and vulnerable before her sister. Stripped of all illusions and symbols of power, she was reborn.
Read Moreby Dennis Wittrock
Like many of my peers, I am constantly wrestling with the question: What does it take to steer the world into a saner, more sustainable direction? This text is not a definitive answer to that question, simply a summary of what puzzle-pieces I have found so far that seem relevant. I will release it in the form of a series of posts. My hope is that by putting my pieces on the table that others will pick them up and link them to theirs so that this act of distributed cognition can move the whole forward.
by Daniel Christian Wahl
Sustainability alone is not an adequate goal. The word sustainability itself is inadequate, as it does not tell us what we are actually trying to sustain. In 2005, after spending two years working on my doctoral thesis on design for sustainability, I began to realize that what we are actually trying to sustain is the underlying pattern of health, resilience and adaptability that maintain this planet in a condition where life as a whole can flourish. Design for sustainability is, ultimately, design for human and planetary health .
Read Moreby Alistair Langer
In this piece I want to use C***** just as a starting point of a much larger reflection. I’m intentionally not writing the word out. I call it the big C. C with a capital C. To start with: No, I’m not denying C. It’s a virus. It kills people. I know people who died from it. …
Read MoreBy David Cayley
From the very beginning of the pandemic, there has been a steady drumbeat of scientific criticism of the policy of total quarantine – the name I will give to the attempt to keep SARS COV-2 at bay until a vaccine can be administered to all. The first instance to come to my attention was a paper by epidemiologist John Ioannidis, a professor of medicine at Stanford, particularly expert in bio-medical statistics.
Read Moreby Lene Rachel Andersen
Denmark frequently pops up in American politics as an example worth emulating: democratic, prosperous, peaceful, well organized, and with a successful single-payer health care system. Some, like Fox News, seem to think, though, that Denmark is socialistic and resembles Venezuela; they should travel more — or, given COVID-19, call somebody at the US State Department who actually knows Denmark.
Read MoreBy Paul LLoyd Robson
The necessity and value of Desexualised Spaces is as old as human society its self.
Hunting and military units, sports teams and fraternities such as Freemasons have been gathering points for men throughout the ages. At water fountains, in homes and more recently female empowerment groups are some of the places where women have tended to gather.
Read Moreby John Bunzl and Nick Duffell
At a time when the human propensity for ostrich-like behaviour is becoming perilous, we owe a massive debt to the Extinction Rebellion movement (XR) for putting climate change onto the headlines. This raising of consciousness has been essential, allowing the notion of ‘climate emergency’ to enter the vocabulary.
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