The Coming Conflicts Over Resource Depletion
People are already choosing sides for the coming conflicts over resources that could be shared more equitably if people were wiser, less profligate, and not so frightened of each other.
Dawn Allen
Dawn Allen is a freelance writer and editor who is passionate about sustainability, political economy, gardening, traditional craftwork, and simple living. She and her husband are currently renovating a rural homestead in southeastern Michigan.
The Sand Shortage, and Why It Matters
Human beings are using sand faster than nature can make more of it. The sand shortage will affect all of us, but will we adapt?
All the Lonely People
American individualism plus economic atomization creates lonely people, but the search for connection and meaning can take us to some dangerous places.
Right to Repair Gaining Ground
A new French law may be the tipping point that the Right to Repair movement needed to catch the attention of consumers and legislators.
The Housing Bubble and its Discontents
The housing bubble may be great for some investors, but it brings precarity for families while rent increases push low-income earners out on the street.
We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know
Beyond what our natural or prosthetic senses can observe and understand, there exist physical realities we don’t even know we don’t know.
How Natural are Arbitrary Rights Now?
Truly natural rights wouldn’t be subject to cancellation by governments, armies or circumstance, which is how you know ours are merely arbitrary.
Judge Strikes Down Voter Suppression Law
Was Florida’s SB 90 aimed at fair, fraud-free elections or Black voter suppression?
Learning from Russia/Ukraine: Make a Plan
It’s hard to make a plan for every contingency, but thinking beyond today’s relative safety is the first step. The world is changing. It can happen here.
Rescue America from Rick Scott
Senator Rick Scott (R-FL), author of the Rescue America plan, thinks you should know what he’d like to do to the country. And so you should!