Podcast #36: Jerry Mander
Author and activist Jerry Mander reflects on a long life of technoskepticism and how it relates to the current global moment.
Author and activist Jerry Mander reflects on a long life of technoskepticism and how it relates to the current global moment.
Excerpts of E. M. Forster’s 1909 futuristic dystopia The Machine Stops
Compared to 1984 or Brave New World, E. M. Forster’s 1909 futuristic novella The Machine Stops was, in some ways, the most eerily accurate prediction of our current technological milieu.
Despite marketing imagery to the contrary, the “cloud” remains very much grounded in physical infrastructure, including unfathomable miles of wires.
Our third print issue is about to ship nationally.
Southern Environmental Center founder Roald Hazelhoff gives us a tour of his unique educational and community-building work.
In part two of a series on dams, reservoirs and catastrophic failures displace and destroy whole communities and ecosystems.
Father Jim Keenan of Boston College discusses Pope Francis’s views on environmentalism and social justice, and how those resonate across belief systems.
With the changes in consumed materials, recycling is running into problems; meanwhile, plastic and overall waste climb.
Across the globe, communities are working to preserve existing areas of natural darkness and reduce the spread of light pollution.