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Sustainability Is a Distorted Luxury

We can’t meet the needs of our future if we don’t change how we think about sustainability. […]

Transforming Sustainability Science to Generate Positive Social and Environmental Change Globally

Despite the decades-long efforts of sustainability science and related policy and action programs, humanity has not gotten […]

The coming war on the hidden algorithms that trap people in poverty

A growing group of lawyers are uncovering, navigating, and fighting the automated systems that deny the poor […]

Letters to my daughters

How these letters came about In December 2019 I read about a novel coronavirus appearing in Wuhan, […]

The Ancient Shambhala Warrior Prophecy

A 1,200-year-old Tibetan Buddhist prophecy of ’The Shambhala Warrior’. It tells of the rising of regular people […]

Conservation Science Shouldn’t Be All About Us

“We live in a time that may in the future be called The Great Dying.” —David Johns It’s […]

A holistic approach for the US behavioral health crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19 creates additional challenges for healthcare leaders seeking to improve behavioral health while offering an opportunity for […]

Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future

We report three major and confronting environmental issues that have received little attention and require urgent action. […]

Fundamental Questions: What Does the Future Look Like if We Humans Fail to Mend Our Ways?

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Fundamental Questions: Does Every Human Have an Obligation to be a Steward, Rather than an Exploiter of Nature?

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Fundamental Questions: Can the Individual Make a Difference When it Comes to the Biological Bottom Line?

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Fundamental Questions: Are We at a Green Energy Turning Point?

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Experts explain how your brain tricks you into taking risks during the pandemic

It was mid-February and Maria Konnikova — a psychologist, writer and champion poker player — was on […]

I Lived Through Collapse. America Is Already There.

Living in Sri Lanka during the end of the civil war, I saw how life goes on, […]

The Five Real Conspiracies You Need to Know About

While millions of people are spellbound by false conspiracy theories, the real conspiracies that are wrecking our […]

How Trump damaged science — and why it could take decades to recover

The US president’s actions have exacerbated the pandemic that has killed more than 200,000 people in the […]

Social Norms for Sustainable Development

Empower us, invest in a sustainable future. Inspiring stories can be powerful, versatile gifts. They might give […]

Who Can Win America’s Politics of Humiliation?

Trump or Biden? About four years ago, without asking anybody, I changed my job description. It used […]

Post Doom conversations with Meg Wheatley

Our power comes from acting without escape from our pain

As global heating speeds up, humanity can no longer assume to control our destiny. We can let […]

Debating the Pros and Cons of Deep Adaptation? Start Here with a New Edition of Original Paper

Two years after the original 2018 Deep Adaptation paper was released, an updated version is now available. […]

210th Podcast: Stanford’s Paul Ehrlich Discusses the On-Going (and Accelerating) Sixth Mass Extinction

Our planet is currently experiencing its sixth mass extinction. Over the past 450 million years the planet […]

Decolonizing the Mind with Sherri Mitchell

PCI Executive Director Asher Miller speaks with Sherri Mitchell (Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset) on the long history of […]

Decolonization: Digging deeper to get at the roots of systemic injustice and unsustainability