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    The Recycling Industry in America Is Broken

    The Recycling Industry in America Is Broken

    Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. According to The National Museum of American History, this popular slogan, with its iconic three arrows forming a triangle, embodied a national call to action to save the environment in the 1970s. In that same decade, the first Earth Day happened, the EPA was formed and Congress passed the Resource Conservation and […]

    What Will You Say to Your Grandchildren?

    What Will You Say to Your Grandchildren?

    By Jeremy Lent Facing oncoming climate disaster, some argue for “Deep Adaptation” — that we must prepare for inevitable collapse. However, this orientation is dangerously flawed. It threatens to become a self-fulfilling prophecy by diluting the efforts toward positive change. What we really need right now is Deep Transformation. There is still time to act: […]

    5 Ways to Curb the Power of Corporations and Billionaires

    5 Ways to Curb the Power of Corporations and Billionaires

    By Jeremy Lent We need to rein in the destructive power of corporations and billionaires before it’s too late. These five ideas would do that, while leaving global capitalism intact. Ultimately, only a complete transformation of our economic system will save our future, but these proposals could set changes in motion that might eventually take […]

    Culture Shift: Redirecting Humanity’s Path to a Flourishing Future

    Culture Shift: Redirecting Humanity’s Path to a Flourishing Future

    By Jeremy Lent What do all these ideas have in common—a tax on carbon, big investments in renewable energy, a livable minimum wage and freely accessible healthcare? The answer is that we need all of them, but even taken together they’re utterly insufficient to redirect humanity away from impending catastrophe and toward a truly flourishing […]