Rivers Worldwide Are Running Dry and Here’s Why and What We Can Do About It
Rivers around the world have been drying up recently. The Loire in France broke records in mid-August for its low water levels, while photos circulating online show the mighty Danube, Rhine, Yangtze and Colorado rivers all but reduced to trickles.
Does Welfare Reduce Crime?
A new study examines one program’s impact on employment and incarceration.
The Cost of Living Crisis Has Been Many Years In The Making
We are actually living through a slow-motion crisis which has been decades in the making and is set to continue. Understanding what is really happening is a vital first step to finding a way out.
Visualizing A New Economy and a New Way of Living
A new economic model would need to be win/win, far different from the win/lose paradigm under which we’ve been operating.
How Community Organizing Helps People build Something Better In Challenging Times
In a time of unprecedented division, rising inequality and intensifying climate change, it’s easy to feel that progress is impossible.
3 Ways Companies Change Their Products To Hide Inflation
There are certain product changes that businesses can and do make to try to quietly fold increased costs into prices. Here are three to look out for
Why It’s Not Anti-Environmental To Be In Favour Of Economic Growth
In the midst of today’s cost of living crisis, many people who are critical of the idea of economic growth see an opportunity.
How Digital Money Has Changed How We Live
In simple terms, digital money can be defined as a form of currency that uses computer networks to make payments.
When It’s Smart To Be Slow: Lessons from a Koala Bear
The koala was clinging to an old tree stag while stranded in the Murray River, on the border between New South Wales and Victoria. A team of students from La Trobe University noticed its predicament as they were paddling by in canoes.
Ocean Forests Are Larger Than The Amazon and More Productive Than We Thought
Off the coastline of southern Africa lies the Great African Seaforest, and Australia boasts the Great Southern Reef around its southern reaches. There are many more vast but unnamed underwater forests all over the world.
The US Has Dropped Drastically on Global Rankings that Measure Democracy and Inequality
The United States may regard itself as a “leader of the free world,” but an index of development released in July 2022 places the country much farther down the list.
- By Ruth Mace
How Did The Patriarchy Start and Will Evolution Get Rid Of It?
The patriarchy, having been somewhat in retreat in parts of the world, is back in our faces. In Afghanistan, the Taliban once again prowl the streets more concerned with keeping women at home and in strict dress code than with the impending collapse of the country into famine.
How Simplistic Explanations of Poverty Miss the Mark
‘If only they made better life choices’ – simplistic explanations of poverty and food insecurity miss the mark.