Podcasts, videos, and websites Globe Hackers love—from a Cospolon perspective—are all places we frequently visit on the Web. One might say ninety percent of everything online is nonsense, but that last ten percent of information offers multiple paths towards a more profound understanding of life.
Link your mind to imagination
Let’s grow the list of links we love to learn from. Please send your suggestions via the contact form. Liberate your thinking from belief in belief, pop info bubbles, expand your heart and mind, and share what’s best for posterity—while we still can!
“Of course when the people of your culture look at tribal peoples,
they don’t see wealth of any kind, they see poverty.This is understandable, since the only kind of wealth
they recognize is the kind that can be locked up,
and tribal peoples are not much interested in that kind.”
My Ishmael One Word: PERMACULTURE.
OUR FINITE WORLD—Gail Tverberg is the author of Our Finite World. She is a researcher focused on figuring out how energy limits and the economy are really interconnected and what this means for our future. Her background is as a casualty actuary, working in insurance forecasting.
Philosophical Thought — across cultures and through the ages, 4th Edition.
COSTS OF WAR — The Costs of War project conducts and publishes research to facilitate debate about the ongoing consequences of the United States post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere, the costs of the U.S. global military footprint, and the domestic effects of U.S. military spending. Created in 2010 and housed at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, the Costs of War project builds on the work of over 60 scholars, experts, human rights advocates, and physicians worldwide.
Etymonline — Online Etymology Dictionary
SIMPLER WAY — Global problems cannot be solved without huge and radical change. The primary cause of our problems is over-consumption—the grossly unsustainable demand for high material "living standards" in a world of limited resources.
“RESILIENCE” — aims to support building community resilience in a world of multiple emerging challenges: the decline of cheap energy, the depletion of critical resources like water, complex environmental crises like climate change and biodiversity loss, and the social and economic issues linked to these. We like to think of the site as a community library with space to read and think but also as a vibrant café in which to meet people, discuss ideas and projects, and pick up and share tips on how to build the resilience of your community, your household, or yourself.
15/15\15 — Magazine for a New Civilization [***Highly Recommended***]
OPEN HORIZONS — Exploring a Process Worldview and Way of Living
Sean Carroll’s Mindscape Podcast—Sean M. Carroll hosts conversations with the world's most interesting thinkers about science, society, philosophy, culture, the arts, and ideas.
THE DONELLA MEADOWS PROJECT—Dr. Donella H. Meadows, a Pew Scholar in Conservation and Environment and a MacArthur Fellow, was one of the most influential environmental thinkers of the twentieth century. After receiving a Ph.D. in biophysics from Harvard, she joined a team at MIT, where she applied the relatively new system dynamics tools to global problems. She became the principal author of The Limits to Growth (1972), which sold more than 9 million copies in 26 languages. She went on to author or co-author eight other books.
GLOBAL COMMISSION ON THE ECONOMICS OF WATER — The Global Commission on the Economics of Water presents a framework to drive radical change in how water is valued, governed, and used. At its center is the recognition that the hydrological cycle is a global common good, which we can safeguard through concerted action and collaboration across sectors and scales, from local to global.
DR. LOUIS ARNOUX — Louis is the catalyst and primary author for the Cool Planet Foundation.
CLIVE SPASH — Clive is an economist who writes, researches, and teaches public policy, emphasizing economic and environmental interactions. His main interests are interdisciplinary research on human behavior, ecological values, and transforming the world political economy into a more socially and environmentally just system.
JAY HANSON’S DIEOFF — Jay explains how he believes that until we face the causes of the crises upon us, we will not overcome them. However, understanding is seriously hindered by self-deception and political expediency. In contrast to the horrors of war and coercion he fears are upon us, he uses his knowledge of ecology and energy to envision a sustainable society—the difficulty he has is seeing a path to get there.”
REGENERATIVE ECONOMICS—A regenerative economy means moving away from extractive business models and unlocking the potential for positive contributions to nature and society.
ENERGY SKEPTIC — Here’s the main reason I write about energy. I was in college when the first energy crisis struck in 1973. Growing up in the industrial city of Chicago, it was pretty obvious society ran on petroleum, from the trains that roared by to the endless lines of trucks and cars on freeways and streets. Chicago’s buildings were blackened with coal.
CAPITAL INSTITUTE —The Capital Institute encourages transforming our economic system to achieve social and ecological regeneration. We believe our finance-driven economic system urgently needs a regenerative model that is aligned with the laws—not theories—of natural systems and our current scientific understanding of how the world works, which is remarkably aligned with the compassion embodied in all global wisdom traditions.
THE HUMAN JOURNEY — The Human Journey website is a project of The Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge (ISHK). For 50 years, under the direction of the late Robert Ornstein, PhD, ISHK has been at the forefront of the effort to highlight the growing body of research on human nature and the human mind. Authors: Edited by Heather Wilburn, Ph.D.
NAFEEZ AHMED — Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is an award-winning 20+ years systems theorist, transdisciplinary academic, investigative journalist, and strategy consultant, founding Director of the System Shift Lab, a systems transformation consultancy. Since 2023, he has been Director of The Futures Lab at Unitas Communications Ltd, leading systems transformation advisory services to governments, businesses, and charities.
NORDIC BILDUNG — Polymodernity & Libertism
Welcome to the Copernicus Interactive Climate Atlas
The Copernicus Interactive Climate Atlas (C3S Atlas) is a web application of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) that allows for flexible exploration and analysis of past and future climate monitoring and change information from multiple lines of evidence provided by the observational reanalysis and climate change projection datasets available in the C3S Climate Data Store (CDS). The Atlas facilitates global and regional in-depth assessment of past trends and future changes in key variables and (extreme) indices for different periods across emission scenarios or different policy-relevant global warming levels (e.g., 1.5°, 2°, 3°, and 4°). Different graphical climate products such as maps and time series (or stripes) can be interactively customized to display temporally- or spatially aggregated values (or changes relative to different baselines) over flexible seasons, periods, and regions.
HOW TO SAVE THE WORLD — These days, chronicling civilization’s collapse seems like watching a raft going over sharp and dangerous rapids. The outcome is determined but unknown. Nothing can be done except to shake our heads and watch everything unfold. At least that’s how it seems for us who are, as James Taylor put it, “wretched unbelievers”. Just wait and see, now, for better or for worse. It’ll shine when it shines.
GLOBAL TIPPING POINTS—Professor Tim Lenton from the University of Exeter’s Global Systems Institute leads Global Tipping Points, which is supported by more than 200 researchers from over 90 organizations in 26 countries.
The Global Tipping Points Report was launched at COP28 on 6 December 2023. The report is an authoritative assessment of the risks and opportunities of negative and positive tipping points in the Earth system and society.
THE ADRASTIA ASSOCIATION—The Adrastia association was founded in June 2014 by citizens who had noted the general denial of scientific work's conclusions on the evolution of the climate, biodiversity, the exponential complexity of our societies, and, more generally, all the impacts grouped under the term Anthropocene.
CAMPAIGN TO BAN DEEPFAKES CLIMATE CENTRAL
DO THE MATH — Using physics and estimation to assess energy, growth, and options—by Tom Murphy
DESIRABLE AI — ‘Desirable Digitalisation: Rethinking AI for Just and Sustainable Futures’ is a collaborative research program between the Universities of Cambridge and Bonn, led by Dr Stephen Cave from the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) at Cambridge and Professor Markus Gabriel from the Center for Science and Thought at Bonn, and funded by Stiftung Mercator in Germany.
The Civilization Research Institute — Humanity lives within two interlinked systems: the biosphere and global civilization. Together, they are the life support system for all humans. For the first time in history, the structure of our growing global civilization is undermining the integrity of the biosphere upon which it depends. We are crossing planetary boundaries of extraction and pollution, threatening the ability of our civilizational system to continue.
CASSANDRA’S LEGACY — After the fall of Troy, Cassandra was taken as Agamemnon's "pallake" (concubine) and taken to Mycenae, where Clytemnestra, Agamemnon's wife, killed her. The destiny of prophetesses is never so bright, especially when they have been right. Something similar, although fortunately much less tragic, happened to the Cassandra blog, which was censored on Facebook by the powers that be. So, it is time to call it quits. But Cassandra is not dead! She reincarnated in the form of the Roman philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca. Click on the image below to link to the new blog "The Seneca Effect" on Substack.
The Social Solidarity Economy resource website—Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE)- refers to economic activities and relations prioritizing social and often environmental objectives over profit motives. It involves citizens acting collectively and in solidarity to democratize the economy and society, including producers, workers, and consumers.
“Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don’t think about what you want to be, but what you want to do.” — Richard Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics
MAHATMA GANDHI — A comprehensive Website on the life and works.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INSTITUTE — “Somewhere, I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere, I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of press. Somewhere, I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right. And so just as I say we aren’t going to let any dogs or water hoses turn us around, we aren’t going to let any injunction turn us around. We are going on.”
NELSON MANDELA FOUNDATION — “In the life of any individual, family, community or society, memory is of fundamental importance. It is the fabric of identity.”
TWENTY YEARS AT HULL-HOUSE by Jane Addams
DERREN BROWN — Derren began his UK television career in December 2000 with a series of specials called Mind Control. In the UK his name is now pretty much synonymous with the art of psychological manipulation.
WELLBEING ECONOMY THE REAL GREEN NEW DEAL
Ecosocialism Links
THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF SHEEP — The Consciousness of Sheep is a news and opinion site documenting the ongoing crises in the economy, energy, environment and society.
Do something. Get involved.
THE WESTMINSTER DECLARATION — We write as journalists, artists, authors, activists, technologists, and academics to warn of increasing international censorship that threatens to erode centuries-old democratic norms.
Coming from the left, right, and centre, we are united by our commitment to universal human rights and freedom of speech, and we are all deeply concerned about attempts to label protected speech as ‘misinformation,’ ‘disinformation,’ and other ill-defined terms.
This abuse of these terms has resulted in the censorship of ordinary people, journalists, and dissidents in countries all over the world.
Such interference with the right to free speech suppresses valid discussion about matters of urgent public interest, and undermines the foundational principles of representative democracy.
NOAM CHOMSKY — Chomsky is also one of the most influential public intellectuals in the world. He has written more than 100 books, his most recent being “Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power.”
THE CHINA ACADEMY — The China Academy is an intellectual content network dedicated to helping global audiences understand the key dynamics driving how China sees the world from expert voices who resonate with millions of youths today and who shape policies and narratives in China.
THE LONG NOW FOUNDATION — Our work encourages imagination at the timescale of civilization — the next and last 10,000 years — a timespan we call the long now.
BIRTHGAP FACTS — This website project is a fact-based critique of the three-part 2021 film Birthgap – Childless World and its unsubstantiated assertions that population collapse due to declining fertility rates is imminent, and that rising childlessness is behind this alleged crisis.
JASON HICKEL — Dr. Jason Hickel is an economic anthropologist, author, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is a Professor at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, a Visiting Senior Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics, and a Chair Professor of Global Justice and the Environment at the University of Oslo. He is Associate Editor of the journal World Development and serves on the Climate and Macroeconomics Roundtable of the US National Academy of Sciences, the advisory board of the Green New Deal for Europe, the Rodney Commission on Reparations and Redistributive Justice, and the Lancet Commission on Sustainable Health.
ALEXA FIRMENICH — My life’s work centers on bringing human society into harmony with the Earth and all other beings through approaches emphasizing non-dual consciousness, active embodied participation, and the intelligent design of systems that re-enchant us to beauty.
JEM BENDELL — Before the summer of 2023, I was a full Professor of Sustainability Leadership and Founder of the Initiative for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS) at the University of Cumbria. I was also the Founder of the Deep Adaptation Forum and the co-founder of the International Scholars’ Warning on Societal Disruption and Collapse. A major transformation in my career began in 2017 as I took a year out to study the latest climate science and released the Deep Adaptation paper, which went viral. A reasonable profile of me appeared in GQ Magazine in 2023.
GARY MARKUS — a leading voice in artificial intelligence well-known for his challenges to contemporary AI, anticipating many of the current limitations decades in advance, and for his research in human language development and cognitive neuroscience. An Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at NYU, he is the author of five books, including The Algebraic Mind, Kluge, The Birth of the Mind, and the New York Times Bestseller Guitar Zero.
JEFFERY K. MCKEE — A physical anthropologist researching hominid evolution and paleoecology.
SUSTAIN: ALLIANCE FOR BETTER FOOD AND FARMING—We believe everyone should have access to healthy, sustainably produced food that protects people, animals, and the planet.
STOP ECOCIDE INTERNATIONAL — This is the vision behind ecocide law: providing an enforceable framework to deter destructive practices and safeguarding the natural world and all our futures.
We develop global conversations around the recognition of ecocide as a serious crime, working at the diplomatic level and across all sectors of civil society to share knowledge and inspire positive legislative change.
JAMES DYKE — an Associate Professor in Earth Systems Science at the University of Exeter, where he serves as the Assistant Director of the Global Systems Institute and Deputy Director of the Environmental Intelligence Centre for Doctoral Training. James is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the European Geosciences Union, and serves on the journal Earth System Dynamics editorial board.
GLOBAL FOOTPRINT NETWORK—Humans use as many ecological resources as if we lived on 1.7 Earths. The Ecological Footprint is the only metric that compares the resource demand of individuals, governments, and businesses against Earth's capacity for biological regeneration.
POPULATION BALANCE — We envision a future where our human footprint is in balance with life on Earth, enabling all species to thrive.
CAMFED — catalyzes the power of the most vulnerable girls and young women to create the future they imagine: for themselves, for their communities, and Africa.
THINKING IS POWER — Knowledge may be power, but there’s simply too much to know. Plus, we carry access to nearly all of humanity’s knowledge in our pockets. In today’s information (and misinformation) age, what’s more important is the ability to find reliable information and use it to draw reasonable conclusions.
AUSTRALIAN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — We’re the Australian Conservation Foundation, Australia's national environment organisation. Since 1965, we’ve protected the nature we all love – our unique wildlife and our beautiful beaches and bush. We won’t give up until Australia’s nature is protected and regenerated. Nature needs us now.
INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATED ECONOMIC RESEARCH — The key objective of our research is to include all the main aspects that form a "human ecosystem" to integrate relevant information into one larger picture to create more profound insight into the economics of our world. We try to connect resources, geographies, various stakeholders, and macro- and microeconomic views into models that are as complete as possible, which hopefully allows us to draw more solid conclusions than any partial view would yield.
REG MORRISON — Reg has a rich and deep understanding of environmental and evolutionary issues and the interrelationship between these critical subjects. Reg offers readers a “fresh perspective on life” that will challenge how you think, feel, and act!
POPULATION BALANCE — We envision a future where our human footprint is in balance with life on Earth, enabling all species to thrive.
DARK MATTER LABS — At Dark Matter Labs, we view the interconnected crises of our time as symptoms of a deeper, structural miscoding of our economic systems. We understand these codes to be physical (e.g. biodiversity, energy, labour and materials), structural (e.g. money creation, embedded inequality and private property rights) and psychological (e.g. failure of the imagination).
Recognising the complex, entangled reality of living systems, we are exploring alternative pathways for organising society and stewarding the shared planetary commons. Our working hypothesis is that these pathways must be rooted in a radical reframing of our relationship to everything, from technology and money to land and the other-than-human world. We are framing this transformation as a shift towards Life-Ennobling Economies.
POPULATION INSTITUTE — The Population Institute (PI) is an international non-profit organization (registered 501(c)(3)) that seeks to promote universal sexual and reproductive health and rights. By advancing reproductive freedom, we strive to balance the world population with a healthy global environment and resource base. PI was established in 1969 and is located on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
COMMITTEE FOR THE REPUBLIC — The Committee for the Republic is a citizen-based, non-partisan, nonprofit organization founded in 2003. The Committee sponsors speakers monthly on challenges to the American Republic, including the military-industrial complex, too-big-to-fail banks, campaign finance, and U.S. competitiveness.
CONVERSATIONS WITH TYLER — On the Conversations with Tyler podcast, esteemed economist Tyler Cowen engages with today’s most underrated thinkers in wide-ranging explorations of their work, the world, and everything in between.
PELLA THIEL — Pella desires to live in intimate relationships with life. I like to sit in the Overton windowsill and explore how to create a culture where we understand ourselves as participants in the wild order of things. As if the world matters to us. She is a maverick ecologist, farmer, author and educator. I work with relational, systemic leadership for a society in harmony with nature at all levels, from local resilience to international legal frameworks.
SUSAN JACOBY — Jacoby’s best-known books include Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism (Metropolitan Books, 2004), hailed in The New York Times as an “ardent and insightful work” that “seeks to rescue a proud tradition from the indifference of posterity” and The Age of American Unreason (Pantheon, 2008), a New York Times bestseller praised by Richard Dawkins as a “luminously clear” work in which the author “reaches out to welcome all who would share in her elevated vision of the way our culture could be—and is not.”
DONNY DUST — A respected figure in remote primitive survival, ancient/historical technologies, lithic arts (flintknapping), and emergency preparedness, Donny's profound enthusiasm for ancient ways goes beyond mere theory, extending to the practical realm of wilderness survival.
COUNSEL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS — The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and students, civic and religious leaders, and other interested citizens in order to help them better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries. Founded in 1921, CFR takes no institutional positions on matters of policy.
THE UNREDACTED JIHAD REHAB — “Jihad Rehab can be a vital bridge between two mindsets that instantly hate and fear each other, including our own… makes you look close at lives we as Americans have spent so long trying to look away from” - Nick Allen
MY LIFE ELSEWHERE — a collaborative community that allows you to compare the country you live in with other countries around the world. We'll show you various statistics that differentiate your country from others, including the cost of living, geographic size, and more. If you moved to another country, what would your life be like?
BEN YEOH — Ben studied science and then practical arts and has been interested in both from a young age. Arts, Business, and Sustainability are all things we love here at Globe Hackers.
STATISTICA.COM — Global No.1 Business Data Platform Insights and facts across 170 industries and 150+ countries
LEAPS — Our mission is to rebuild public trust in science as a force for good and to foster dialogue about the ethical implications of new breakthroughs.
FAIR — FAIR, the national media watch group, has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. We work to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints. As an anti-censorship organization, we expose neglected news stories and defend working journalists when they are muzzled. As a progressive group, FAIR believes that structural reform is ultimately needed to break up the dominant media conglomerates, establish independent public broadcasting, and promote strong non-profit sources of information.
RACE: THE POWER OF AN ILLUSION — RACE–The Power of an Illusion asks a question so basic it's rarely raised: what is this thing we call race? Since its release in 2003, the series has become one of the most widely used documentaries ever in formal and non-formal education in the US. Millions of people have used the film to scrutinize their own deep-seated beliefs about race and explore how our social divisions are not natural or inevitable but made. Now, in 2019, the series remains salient and timely.
WORLD VALUES SURVEY — The World Values Survey (WVS) is an international research program devoted to the scientific and academic study of the social, political, economic, religious, and cultural values of people in the world.
ANTONY LOEWENSTEIN — Antony Loewenstein is an Australian/German independent freelance investigative journalist, best-selling author, and filmmaker. He’s the co-founder of Declassified Australia.
He’s worked in dozens of countries around the world and was based in South Sudan in 2015 and East Jerusalem between 2016 and 2020.
ANNIE JACOBSEN — ANNIE JACOBSEN is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author. Her books include: AREA 51; OPERATION PAPERCLIP; THE PENTAGON’S BRAIN; PHENOMENA; SURPRISE, KILL VANISH, and FIRST PLATOON. Her newest book, NUCLEAR WAR: A SCENARIO, publishes on March 26, 2024.
VISION OF HUMANITY — “Vision of Humanity” is a destination for peace, providing research, data, editorial, and analysis of the world today.
QUINCY INSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT — The practical and moral failures of U.S. efforts to unilaterally shape the destiny of other nations by force requires a fundamental rethinking of U.S. foreign policy assumptions.
LET’S TRY DEMOCRACY BY DAVID SWANSON — the U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation awarded Swanson the 2018 Peace Prize. He was also awarded a Beacon of Peace Award by the Eisenhower Chapter of Veterans For Peace in 2011 and the Dorothy Eldridge Peacemaker Award by New Jersey Peace Action in 2022.
MICHAEL MILLERMAN — an award-winning political philosophy scholar and teacher. He earned his PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto in 2018 for his work on Heidegger and political theory. His first book, Beginning with Heidegger: Strauss, Rorty, Derrida, Dugin and The Philosophical Constitution of the Political, has been called “an essential guide to passionate thinking.” Today he is one of the foremost experts on Alexander Dugin, “the most dangerous philosopher in the world,” several of whose books he has translated.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER INSTITUTE — R. Buckminster Fuller was a renowned 20th-century inventor and visionary born in Milton, Massachusetts, on July 12, 1895. Dedicating his life to making the world work for all of humanity, Fuller operated as a practical philosopher who demonstrated his ideas as inventions that he called “artifacts.”
LENE RACHEL ANDERSEN — Full member of the Club of Rome, President of the Copenhagen based think tank Nordic Bildung, and co-founder of the Global Bildung Network.
I am an economist, author, futurist, philosopher, and bildung activist. After studying business economics for three years, I worked as a substitute teacher before I studied theology. During my studies, I wrote entertainment for Danish television until I decided to quit theology, become a full-time writer, and focus on technological development, big history, and the future of humanity.
THE ALDO LEOPOLD FOUNDATION — Considered by many as the father of wildlife ecology and the United States wilderness system, Aldo Leopold was a conservationist, forester, philosopher, educator, writer, and outdoor enthusiast. Among his best-known ideas is the “land ethic,” which calls for an ethical, caring relationship between people and nature.
REX WEYLER — In the 1970s, Weyler was a cofounder of Greenpeace International and editor of the Greenpeace Chronicles. He served on campaigns to preserve rivers and forests, and to stop whaling, sealing, and toxic dumping.
VOEGELIN VIEW — is the online interdisciplinary and international arts and humanities journal of the Eric Voegelin Society dedicated to the thought of Eric Voegelin and the humanities as a source of wisdom and public cultural commentary.
MEER — aims to tackle the most imminent threat directly, Earth's rising temperatures, with the help of solar reflectors installed on rooftops, open spaces, and farmland, redirecting portions of sunlight back into space before it has a chance to heat our planet. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is absolutely necessary, and enhancing natural carbon sinks is also essential. But we will break through deadly temperature boundaries before these slow-response strategies can start to cool the planet. We are currently involved in a research and testing phase as we explore the effectiveness of our primary tools before the publication of peer-reviewed research while simultaneously carrying out small-scale pilot projects in heat adaptation and mitigation in urban and agricultural settings.
THE ORWELL FOUNDATION — What I have most wanted to do… is to make political writing into an art.
ANITA WATERS — Anita Waters is Professor Emerita of Sociology at Denison University in Granville, Ohio, and an organizer for the CPUSA in Ohio.
LENE RACHEL ANDERSEN — author, futurist, philosopher, and Bildung activist, focuses on technological development, big history, and the future of humanity.
PURPOSE — Steward-Ownership: A more equitable and sustainable economy is possible. We enable the pioneering founders, business leaders, and investors who are building it by re-envisioning the nature of corporate ownership.
Dr. DANA R. FISHER — is the Director of the Center for Environment, Community, & Equity and Professor in the School of International Service at American University. She currently serves as the Past President of the Eastern Sociological Society, a Non Resident Senior Fellow in the Governance Program at the Brookings Institution, and the chair-elect of the Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.
KATE RAWORTH — Kate Raworth (sounds like ‘Ray-worth’) is a renegade economist focused on making economics fit for 21st-century realities. She is the creator of the Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries and co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab. Kate is a Senior Associate at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute, where she teaches the Masters in Environmental Change and Management. She is also a Professor of Practice at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.
CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF DIGITAL LIFE — When technologies change, so do our values. The shift to DIGITAL is perhaps the most sweeping and rapid change humans have ever experienced.
EXIT — Today, corporate employers control private speech and behavior in ways that we would never tolerate from our government. People are fired every day for expressing sincere beliefs or refusing to comply with political directives – while millions more are intimidated into silence.
EXIT is a fraternal organization dedicated to ending our reliance on corporate employment so that we can’t be threatened by a politicized HR department or an “employer mandate.” EXIT members are starting businesses, finding remote jobs, learning trades, growing their own food – anything that makes them harder to intimidate.
CAMDEN CONFERENCE — founded in 1987 as a nonprofit, non-partisan educational organization whose mission is to foster informed discourse on world issues.
DAMN THE MATRIX — Today, I have lost faith in humanity. Greed rules, and it will bring us down.
“If you go into battle hoping to live, you will surely die; if you go into battle expecting to die, you might live.”
THE NEW ATLANTIS — Our aim is a culture in which science and technology work for, not on, human beings.
THE RED NATION — We govern ourselves and our relations according to one simple philosophy: be a good relative. We are self-determining people. We support other self-determining peoples who resist colonizers and US domination around the world. Only people-power will determine our destinies. “We cannot simply build isolated utopias while the rest of the world burns, nor can we wait for the slow process of reformist reform to kick in. We cannot simply heal our individual trauma, nor can we consume better to save the environment. We cannot vote harder and place all our hope in a few individuals in Congress. Climate change will kill us before any of these strategies liberate the planet from capitalism.”
Ethical Alternatives & Resources
Journalism with Open Sourced Fact-Checking
“The world will have to start listening to the good scientists and not the ones paid to justify dodgy developments.”
– Greer Hart
NEWS CLICK — NewsClick (newsclick.in) is an independent media organization dedicated to covering news from India and elsewhere with a focus on progressive movements.
DAILY MAVERICK — Daily Maverick exists to provide you with the news, analysis, insight and opinion that you need. Whether you’re required to make big decisions or just want to hold your own over lunchtime conversation, we’ll provide the tools.
ROYAL SOCIETY — The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.
THOMAS SOWELL — Thomas Sowell is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution.
ZINN EDUCATIONAL PROJECT — A people’s history flips the script. When we look at history from the standpoint of the workers and not just the owners, the soldiers and not just the generals, the invaded and not just the invaders, we can begin to see society more fully, more accurately. The more clearly we see the past, the more clearly we’ll see the present — and be equipped to improve it.
NO COLD WAR — We support China and the US basing their relations on mutual dialogue and centring on the common issues which unite humanity.
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SAMO BURJA — There has never been an immortal human society. I work on figuring out why.
Peace Prize Proposal for Sustainable Development
We exist to serve others, innovate, and make the world a better place with a humble yet confident voice.
Prosocial World
Our Mission
To catalyze positive cultural change to consciously evolve who we are, how we connect with each other, and how we interact with the planet. We are co-creating a new story of what’s possible for humanity.
Our Vision
To unleash the power of science and inquiry to help us notice what’s within us and between us, to create a more harmonious world for everyone around us.
TRANSNATIONAL INSTITUTE — The Transnational Institute (TNI) is an international research and advocacy institute committed to building a just, democratic, and sustainable planet. For 50 years, TNI has served as a unique nexus between social movements, engaged scholars, and policymakers.
AWAKENING FROM THE MEANING CRISIS — Lessons By John Vervaeke
ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES — Ray Dalio’s Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order examines history’s most turbulent economic and political periods to reveal why the times ahead will likely be radically different from those we’ve experienced in our lifetimes—but similar to those that have happened many times before.
WADE DAVIS — Wade Davis is a Professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. Between 2000 and 2013, he served as Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society. Named by the NGS as one of the Explorers for the Millennium, he has been described as “a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet, and passionate defender of all of life’s diversity.”
FRESH ECONOMIC THINKING — Economics could be much better; you’ll find excellent technical critiques of economic theory and comments on the nature of the profession.
BEN NORTON — Norton is the founder and editor-in-chief of Geopolitical Economy Report, an independent news website publishing original journalism and analysis.
THE LIBRARY OF ECONOMIC POSSIBILITY — a knowledgebase for the evolution of economic thinking in America
ROLAND THEODORE BOER — Roland Boer is a Marxist philosopher based in China. His research concerns the many dimensions of the construction of socialism, especially in China but also elsewhere.
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW — CJR’s mission is to be the intellectual leader in the rapidly changing world of journalism. It is the most respected voice on press criticism, and it shapes the ideas that make media leaders and journalists smarter about their work.
GEOPOLITICAL ECONOMY REPORT — The Geopolitical Economy Report is an independent news outlet. It provides original journalism and analysis to understand the changing world. Geopolitical Economy Report has no institutional support or large donors.
COMPACT MAGAZINE — Compact, an online magazine founded in 2022, seeks a new political center devoted to the common good. Believing that political forces, not economic ones, should determine our common life, we draw on the social-democratic tradition to argue for an order marked by authentic freedom, social stability, and shared prosperity. Though we have definite opinions, we proudly publish writers with whom we disagree.
MISES INSTITUTE — The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian school of economics, and individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. These great thinkers developed praxeology, a deductive science of human action based on premises known with certainty to be true, and this is what we teach and advocate. Our scholarly work is founded in Misesian praxeology, and in self-conscious opposition to the mathematical modeling and hypothesis-testing that has created so much confusion in neoclassical economics.
DEFENSE POLITICS ASIA — DPA provides deep insights into military, geopolitics, internal politics, and economic developments across Asia and around the world.
PALLADIUM — Palladium Magazine is a non-partisan publication that explores the future of governance and society through responsible slow publishing, long-form analysis, political theory, and investigative journalism.
SIR ROGER SCRUTON — "From the third-person point of view, monarchy is the most reasonable form of government. By embodying the state in a fragile human person, it captures the arbitrariness and the givenness of political allegiance, and so transforms allegiance into affection"
THE EUROPEAN CONSERVATIVE — The European Conservative is Europe’s premier conservative English-language quarterly journal of philosophy, politics, and the arts. It publishes articles, essays, interviews, and reviews that illuminate the different varieties of conservative, traditionalist, reactionary, and right-wing thought from across Europe and around the world.
THE ROSA LUXEMBURG FOUNDATION — The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation is one of the largest political education institutions in the Federal Republic of Germany, and part of the broader international democratic socialist movement.
UNEASY MONEY — Commentary on monetary policy in the spirit of R. G. Hawtrey.
POSITIVE MONEY — We campaign for a money and banking system that enables a fair, sustainable, and democratic economy.
NOVARA MEDIA — Novara Media is an independent media organisation addressing the issues that are set to define the 21st century, from a crisis of capitalism to racism and climate change. Within that context, our goal is a simple one: to tell stories and provide analysis shaped by the political uncertainties of the age, elevating critical perspectives you’re unlikely to find elsewhere. Driven to build new media for different politics, our journalism is always politically committed; rather than seeking to moderate between two sides of a debate, our output actively intends to feed back into political action.
CHRONICLES — A Magazine of American Culture is a program of Charlemagne Institute, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit publisher and educational organization dedicated to defending and advancing the philosophical and spiritual foundations of Western Civilization.
TOM MURPHY — Tom Murphy is a professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego. An amateur astronomer in high school, physics major at Georgia Tech, and Ph.D. student in physics at Caltech, Murphy has spent decades reveling in the study of astrophysics. He currently leads a project to test General Relativity by bouncing laser pulses off of the reflectors left on the Moon by the Apollo astronauts, achieving one-millimeter range precision. Murphy’s keen interest in energy topics began with his teaching a course on energy and the environment for non-science majors at UCSD. Motivated by the unprecedented challenges we face, he has applied his instrumentation skills to exploring alternative energy and associated measurement schemes. Following his natural instincts to educate, Murphy is eager to get people thinking about the quantitatively convincing case that our pursuit of an ever-bigger scale of life faces gigantic challenges and carries significant risks.
MONTHLY REVIEW — An Independent Socialist Magazine.
BRAVE NEW EUROPE — BRAVE NEW EUROPE is an educational website based in London publishing expertise with a radical face and attitude concerning European politics, economics, and environmental policy. We promote critical thinking and the creation of an alternative to neo-liberalism. Our goals are to create the first pan-European educational platform to support a democratic exchange of ideas and to serve as an interface between experts and civil society groups supporting the creation of an egalitarian, just, sustainable, and social Europe.
AMERICAN AFFAIRS — American Affairs is a quarterly public policy and political journal. It was founded to provide a forum for people who believe that conventional partisan platforms are no longer relevant to our country's most pressing challenges.
ALLIANCE FOR JUST MONEY — We all think we know money – but money is more than what’s in our wallets or bank accounts – it’s actually a money system with many variations throughout history. The system determines how money is created and fed into the economy. Our current money system is failing us. It is unfair, unjust, and dysfunctional. Just Money reforms the money system to work for all of society.
THE IMAGINATIVE CONSERVATIVE — The Imaginative Conservative is an online journal for those who seek the True, the Good, and the Beautiful. We address culture, liberal learning, politics, political economy, literature, the arts, and the American Republic in the tradition of Russell Kirk, T.S. Eliot, Edmund Burke, Irving Babbitt, Wilhelm Roepke, Robert Nisbet, Richard Weaver, M.E. Bradford, Eric Voegelin, Christopher Dawson, Paul Elmer More and other leaders of Imaginative Conservatism.
COMMUNIST PARTY USA — Founded in 1919, the Communist Party USA has championed the struggles for democracy, labor rights, women’s equality, racial justice, and peace for 100 years. The Communist Party has an unparalleled history in the progressive movement of the United States, from the struggle against Jim Crow segregation to the organizing of the industrial unions, from the canneries of California to the sweatshops of New York City.
AMERICAN MONETARY INSTITUTE — We at the American Monetary Institute have put together this list of resources that we hope can be a great starting point for any new student of monetary reform.
NISKANEN CENTER — The Niskanen Center works to advance an open society by active engagement in the war of ideas, direct engagement in the policymaking process, and through the courts with amicus briefs and pro bono representation.
NEW LEFT REVIEW — A 160-page journal published every two months from London, New Left Review analyses world politics, the global economy, state powers and protest movements; contemporary social theory, history and philosophy; cinema, literature, heterodox art and aesthetics. It runs a regular book review section and carries interviews, essays, topical comments and signed editorials on political issues of the day. ‘Brief History of New Left Review’ gives an account of NLR’s political and intellectual trajectory since its launch in 1960.
EFF — The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Founded in 1990, EFF champions user privacy, free expression, and innovation through impact litigation, policy analysis, grassroots activism, and technology development. EFF's mission is to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world.
CENTRE FOR THE ANALYSIS OF THE RADICAL RIGHT — The Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right (CARR) is a UK-based research centre and pedagogical outreach initiative focused on the study and countering of radical right extremism and intersecting phenomena (e.g. populism, gender, antisemitism, and Islamophobia) that aims to support a variety of mainstream groups, from government agencies to grass-roots charities, through podcasts, commentary, research reports, presentations, media interviews, and commissioned work.
COSMONAUT MAGAZINE — Our organizing principles are internationalism, overall standing armies and borders; building class-independent, democratic institutions; and a vision of a future where the world is a classless community of humanity, finally free of exploitation and oppression—communism.
NOEMA — Noema is a magazine exploring the transformations sweeping our world. We publish essays, interviews, reportage, videos, and art on the overlapping realms of philosophy, governance, geopolitics, economics, technology, and culture. In doing so, our unique approach is to get out of the usual lanes and cross disciplines, social silos, and cultural boundaries. From artificial intelligence and the climate crisis to the future of democracy and capitalism, Noema Magazine seeks a deeper understanding of the most pressing challenges of the 21st century.
NEW DISCOURSES — New Discourses is, by design, meant to be apolitical in the usual sense. That means it is not interested in conservative, progressive, left, right, center, or any other particular political stances. It is, in this regard, only broadly liberal in the philosophical and ethical stance. In that case, whether you’re a progressive left-liberal or a conservative right-liberal, traditional or classical in any case, you’re likely to find what we’re doing refreshing. (And if you don’t, we can talk about it! That’s the point!)
INSTITUTE FOR NEW ECONOMIC THINKING — That’s why INET carefully incubates new economic thinking within the academy and beyond. We work to guide the field away from economic orthodoxy so that it can free itself of inertia and past failures. We then promote the new economic thinking we develop and support among influencers, policymakers, and the engaged public so that it can have a real-world impact.
ESA — The European Sociological Association (ESA)
NIEMAN LAB — The Nieman Journalism Lab is an attempt to help journalism figure out its future in an Internet age.
LIA TARCHANSKY — Lia Tarachansky is a journalist, filmmaker, and multimedia artist. Born in the former Soviet Union, she grew up in Israel/Palestine and then moved to Canada/Turtle Island. She's worked as an Israel/Palestine correspondent, video journalist, investigative reporter, and writer.
CITY JOURNAL — City Journal offers a stimulating mix of hard-headed practicality and cutting-edge theory, with articles on everything from school financing, policing strategy, and welfare policy to urban architecture, family policy, and the latest theorizing emanating from the law schools, the charitable foundations, even the schools of public health.
THE ROOTS OF PROGRESS — We live in an age that has lost its optimism. The 19th century believed in the power of technology and industry to better humanity. In the 20th century, this belief gave way to skepticism and distrust. We need a new way forward.
ICIJ — At the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, we want to inspire and cultivate a global community of reporters and readers who believe journalism can bring about positive change.
THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE — The mission of the Claremont Institute is to restore the principles of the American Founding to their rightful, preeminent authority in our national life.
THE AMERICAN MIND — James Poulos, editor
FAIR OBSERVER — Fair Observer is an independent, nonprofit media organization that engages in citizen journalism and civic education.
Our digital media platform has 2,500 contributors from 90 countries, cutting across borders, backgrounds, and beliefs. With fact-checking and a rigorous editorial process, we provide diversity and quality in an era of echo chambers and fake news.
COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW — CJR’s mission is to be the intellectual leader in the rapidly changing world of journalism. It is the most respected voice on press criticism, and it shapes the ideas that make media leaders and journalists smarter about their work. Through its fast-turn analysis and deep reporting, CJR is an essential venue not just for journalists but also for the thousands of professionals in communications, technology, academia, and other fields reliant on solid media industry knowledge.
PROFESSOR RICHARD A. WERNER — Richard is a Member of Linacre College, Oxford, and is a university professor in banking and finance. He is also a founding chair of Local First, a community interest company establishing not-for-profit community banks in the UK (including the Hampshire Community Bank). His recommended charity is the Association for Research on Banking and the Economy (www.arbe.org.uk).
THE IMAGINATIVE CONSERVATIVE — The Imaginative Conservative is an online journal for those who seek the True, the Good, and the Beautiful.
RENEGADE INC. — Bringing together the most exciting thinkers, writers, leaders, and creators, we explore the most urgent topics of the day.
DEBORAH TANNEN — Deborah Tannen is a University Professor and Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University and the author of many books and articles about how the language of everyday conversation affects relationships.
SIDECAR — Sidecar aims to provide a space on the left for international interventions and debate. A buzzing and richly populated left-media landscape has emerged online in the past decade. Still, its main English-speaking forms have been largely monoglot in outlook and national in focus, treating culture as a subsidiary concern. By contrast, political writing on Sidecar will take the world, rather than the Anglosphere, as its primary frame. Culture in the widest sense – arts, ideas, mores – will have full standing. Translation of and intellectual engagement with interventions in languages other than English will be integral to its work. And while New Left Review appears bi-monthly, running articles of widely varied length, Sidecar will post several items a week, each no longer than 2,500 words and many a good deal shorter.
THE AMERICAN SUN — Exemplary P.O.V. from The Right “Traditionalist”
PAUL KINGSNORTH — He is a former deputy editor of The Ecologist and the Dark Mountain Project co-founder.
Kingsnorth's nonfiction writing tends to address macro themes like environmentalism, globalisation, and the challenges posed to humanity by civilisation-level trends. His fiction tends to be mythological and multi-layered.
WOLFGANG STREECK — Streeck's research is focused on analyzing the political economy of capitalism, wherein he proposes to take on a dialectical approach to institutional analysis as opposed to the more rigid varieties of capitalism. He has written extensively on the political economy of Germany and, more recently, has involved himself in debates over the politics of austerity, the rise of what he terms the debt state as a result of the neoliberal revolution of the 1980s, and the future of the European Union.[2][3] Besides numerous articles published in various European journals, he has authored scores of books, some of them available in translations.
INEQUALITY . ORG — Inequality.org has been tracking inequality-related news and views for nearly two decades. A project of the Institute for Policy Studies since 2011, our site aims to provide information and insights for readers ranging from educators and journalists to activists and policymakers.
LEFT VOICE — All things from the political left from around the world.
LIBERTY FUND — Liberty Fund inspires engaging conversations about the ideal of liberty through the ages and across cultures.
ECONLIB — The Library of Economics and Liberty (Econlib) is dedicated to advancing the study of economics, markets, and liberty. It offers a unique combination of resources for students, teachers, researchers, and aficionados of economic thought.
ROSS ASHCROFT — filmmaker, broadcaster, entrepreneur
PAUL STREET — Paul Street is a historian, journalist, and political commentator in Chicago. He is the author of many books, including Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics (Routledge, 2008). The Empire’s New Clothes: Barack Obama in the Real World of Power (Routledge, 2010), and They Rule: The 1% v. Democracy (Routledge, 2014). Street writes regularly for CounterPunch and Black Agenda Report.
NAKED CAPITALISM — Naked Capitalism is not for the fainthearted.
Over time, I’ve come to conceive of Naked Capitalism as an effort to promote critical thinking through the medium of a finance and economics blog. In December 2006, I started writing because there was an obvious underreporting in the US of the severity and extent of the underpricing of risk in all credit instruments. It didn’t take any great insight to recognize that. It’s hard to state emphatically enough how obvious it was to someone with reasonable financial markets experience who read the Financial Times and Bloomberg that the official narrative was a crock.
SCOTUS BLOG — SCOTUSblog is devoted to covering the U.S. Supreme Court comprehensively, without bias, and according to the highest journalistic and legal ethical standards. The blog is provided as a public service.
THE 74 MILLION — The 74 is a non-profit, non-partisan news site covering education in America. There are 74 million children in America. There are 74 million reasons to talk about education.
PAUL STREET — Paul Street is an independent progressive policy researcher, award-winning journalist, historian, author, and speaker based in Iowa City, Iowa, and Chicago, Illinois.
CRAIG MURRAY — Craig Murray is an author, broadcaster, and human rights activist. He was British Ambassador to Uzbekistan from August 2002 to October 2004 and Rector of the University of Dundee from 2007 to 2010.
VACLAV SMIL — Vaclav Smil does interdisciplinary research in the fields of energy, environmental and population change, food production, history of technical innovation, risk assessment, and public policy. He has published more than 40 books and about 500 papers on these topics. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Science Academy), and a Member of the Order of Canada.
CENTRE FOR CITIES — Centre for Cities is the leading think tank dedicated to improving the economies of the UK's largest cities and towns.
FORESIGHT INSTITUTE — “If we push in the right directions — learning, teaching, arguing, shifting directions, and pushing further — then we may yet steer the technology race toward a future with room enough for our dreams.” —K. Eric Drexler, Engines of Creation
EXPOSED by CMD — The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) is a nationally recognized watchdog that leads in-depth, award-winning investigations into the corruption that undermines our democracy, environment, and economic prosperity.
THE PEOPLE’S FORUM — We are a movement incubator for working-class and marginalized communities to build unity across historic lines of division at home and abroad. We are an accessible educational and cultural space that nurtures the next generation of visionaries and organizers who believe that through collective action a new world is possible.
THE WORLD SOCIALIST WEB SITE — The WSWS aims to meet the need, felt widely today, for an intelligent appraisal of the problems of contemporary society. It addresses itself to the masses of people who are dissatisfied with the present state of social life, as well as its cynical and reactionary treatment by the establishment media.
MISES INSTITUTE — Mises Wire offers contemporary news and opinion through the lens of Austrian economics and libertarian political economy.
COVERT ACTION MAGAZINE — The relaunch team also intends to, among other things, publish several books, including an annual compilation of the best of CAM, an encyclopedia of espionage, and a republication of CIA Diary: Inside the Company and On The Run by Philip Agee, volumes which will include Philip Agee’s iconic articles and papers.
OIL PRICE. COM — The No. 1 place for oil and energy news.
CARBON BRIEF — Climate tipping points explained.
YALE CLIMATE CONNECTIONS — Yale Climate Connections aims to help citizens and institutions understand how the changing climate is already affecting our lives. It seeks to help individuals, corporations, media, non-governmental organizations, government agencies, academics, artists, and more learn from each other about constructive “solutions” so many are undertaking to reduce climate-related risks and wasteful energy practices.
BNE INTELLINEWS — IntelliNews PRO reports daily on the business, economic, finance, and politics of the 30 countries of Emerging Europe, Central Asia, and North Africa, drawing on our unique network of correspondents in all the countries we cover.
FACT CHECK— You can do it too!
OpenSecrets.org — Center for Responsive Politics
THE CLUB OF ROME — seeking to define comprehensive solutions to our world's complex, interconnected challenges.
Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) — is a not-for-profit, nongovernmental organization that searches for better outcomes, including new solutions, to the management of knowledge resources.
CIVILIZATION EMERGING — Daniel Schmachtenberger’s personal blog focused on exploring topics that I find meaningful and relevant to being human well, individually and collectively. Specifically, thoughts on the future of civilization, the sensitivity and potential of our current situation, and how we might navigate the path ahead.
EUGENE V. DEBS — "I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world."
Where it serves the purposes above, I might also investigate philosophical, scientific, and technological topics that critically inform our thinking about the future.
THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY — The Geological Society of London is the UK's national society for geoscience, providing support to over 12,000 members in the UK and overseas.
REBEL WISDOM — When our existing assumptions and ways of thinking break down, it's the rebels and the renegades, those who dare to think differently, who are needed to reboot the system.
INTER REFLECTIONS MOVIE — Based upon the writer/director’s best-selling 2017 book The New Human Rights Movement, InterReflections is a fantasy that extends the book’s academic content into a more creative form.
Each of the three timeline layers serves a content and aesthetic function.
ATLAS HUGGED — “The Autobiography of John Galt III,” A Novel by David Sloan Wilson
“Call me anything but John Galt. That is my name, but it is also the name of my father and grandfather. I am not like them, and the world they created is not the one I desire. The III after my name does not sufficiently set me apart.”
With these words, famed scientist and nonfiction writer David Sloan Wilson launches a devastating critique of Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism and its impact on the world. Just as Rand advanced her ideas through fiction in addition to nonfiction, including her iconic novel Atlas Shrugged, Wilson pursues his quarry into the fictional realm with the story of John Galt III, the grandson of the main protagonist of Rand’s novel, and his quest to defeat the Evil Empire constructed by his father, grandfather, and grandmother—Ayn Rant.
FUTURE EARTH — Future Earth develops the knowledge and tools that governments, communities, and companies need to meet the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals. By understanding connections among environmental, social, and economic systems, Future Earthworks facilitates research and innovation, builds and mobilizes networks, and shapes the narrative, turning knowledge into action.
UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS — The Union of Concerned Scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
TOM DISPATCH — A regular antidote to the mainstream media
JOHN HAGEL — Edge Strategy and the Future of Work
INTERCONNECTED LAW — Interconnected Law is an approach to law based on interconnection, care, nurture, community, and love.
THE MICHAEL BROOKS SHOW — Rest In Peace, you are missed. The best global current events commentary on YouTube
POGO — Project on government oversight
BNK OF THE FUTURE — We believe that the future of finance looks very different from how it looks today. We offer qualifying investors the opportunity to invest in the companies and products that are building the future of finance.
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FOR LOCAL SELF-RELIANCE — Technology is giving life the potential to flourish like never before or to self-destruct. Let's make a difference.
ALEC EXPOSED — stealing your rights and laws to boost their revenue
MICHAEL J. CASEY — Michael works as an educator and advisor at the MIT Media Lab and the MIT Sloan School of Business Management.
Timothy Snyder — Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna.
MARGARET (MEG) WHEATLEY, Ed.D. — She is a best-selling author of nine books, from the classic Leadership and the New Science in 1992 and Who Do We Choose To Be?
MICHAEL HUDSON — On finance, real estate, and the powers of neoliberalism.
POSITIONS POLITICS — Escalating twenty-first-century crises have created an urgent need for direct interaction among scholars and readers. We aim to renovate how we debate, organize, and inform.
RENEGADE INC. — everything from a new POV
LAW & LIBRARY — Law, Books, Liberty Classics, and culture
CURRENT AFFAIRS — A Magazine of Politics & Culture
THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY — winner of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize
MICHAEL HUDSON — Michael Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET)
STEVEN PINKER — Psychology Department, Harvard University
PATRICK J. DENEEN — Professor of Political Science
THE MUNK DEBATES — From gender and geopolitics to nuclear weapons and neoliberalism, the Munk Debates tackle the most important questions of our time with passion and critical thought.
THE DEBS PROJECT — This is an informational website and blog relating to the ongoing 6-volume Selected Works of Eugene V. Debs project, edited by Tim Davenport and David Walters and published by Haymarket Books of Chicago.
THE OFFICE OF JEREMY RIFKIN — The foundation of economic trends
PAUL MASON — Author of “Clear Bright Future”
NICK BOSTROM — Professor, University of Oxford Director, Future of Humanity Institute
COMMONDREAMS.org — To inform. To inspire. To ignite change for the common good.
THE WILDFIRE PROJECT — HEALTHY GROUPS FORM THE CORE OF SUCCESSFUL MOVEMENTS.
THE ASPEN INSTITUTE — Weave: The Social Fabric Project
JEFFERY SACHS — Economist
DAHR JAMAIL — "He is a superb journalist, in the most honorable tradition of that craft." -Howard Zinn
THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE — The mission of this website is to promote the understanding and implementation of the Precautionary Principle for the management of new and emerging risks.
POPULAR RESISTANCE — Daily movement news and resources
YANIS VAROUFAKIS — Economist
Peter Day’s WORLD OF BUSINESS podcast. BBC Radio 4 – Insights into the business world with Peter Day.
THE WORLD IF — from THE ECONOMIST Truly not to be missed. Always think: what if?
ROBERT REICH — He is Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center.
DISSENT MAGAZINE — Dissent is a quarterly magazine of politics and ideas. Founded by Irving Howe and Lewis Coser in 1954, it quickly established itself as one of America’s leading intellectual journals and a mainstay of the democratic left.
GZERO MEDIA — GZERO Media is a company dedicated to providing the public with intelligent and engaging coverage of global affairs. It was created in 2017 as a subsidiary of Eurasia Group, the world's leading political risk analysis firm.
REWILD — Rewild protects and restores the wild. We have a singular and powerful focus: the wild as the most effective solution to the interconnected climate, biodiversity, and pandemic crises.
PLAN B 3.0 — Mobilizing to Save Civilization EARTH POLICY INSTITUTE NEW YORK LONDON Lester R. Brown
JAMES LOVELOCK — Originator of Gaia theory and inventor of the electron capture detector
SPIKED ONLINE — politics, tech, science, culture
THE DISTRICT SENTINEL — A news co-op in D.C. (watching the watchdogs)
CONTEXT.ORG — Catalyzing a graceful transition to the Planetary Era
THE MICHAEL BROOKS SHOW — Don’t be foolish, subscribe!
RESOURCE-BASED ECONOMY — a new way for society
THE SEEDS OF VANDANA SHIVA — The Seeds of Vandana Shiva, a feature-length documentary, presents the remarkable life story of the Gandhian eco-activist and agro-ecologist, Vandana Shiva.
SIMPLICITY INSTITUTE — Envisioning a Prosperous Decent
ROLL CALL — Washington politics and a lot more
OPEN NODE — OpenNode is the easiest way to accept Bitcoin. Discover new ways to monetize and scale your business globally.
JASON HICKEL — Dr. Jason Hickel is an anthropologist, author, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
TRUTHDIG — drilling beneath the headlines (U.S.)
MAXIMILLIAN ALVAREZ — teacher/student
SUBLATION MEDIA — Something is ending. Sublation Media is starting on the premise that a failure might be an opportunity. For over a half-decade, we’ve tried to convince ourselves that the left is on the rise even as the defeats keep piling up.
NAKED CAPITALISM — fearless commentary on finance, economics, politics, and power
Institute for Global Labor and Human Rights
SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL — We are a movement of people from over 100 countries. Our vision is a world where tribal peoples are respected as contemporary societies and their human rights protected.
DESMOG — clearing the PR pollution that clouds climate science
WOLF STREET — The stories behind business, finance, and money
ANTI WAR — This site is devoted to the cause of non-interventionism. It is read by libertarians, pacifists, leftists, "greens," and independents alike, as well as many on the Right who agree with our opposition to imperialism.
DOMINIC FRISBY — Financial writer, comedian, actor of unrecognized genius, and voice of many things.
THE DARK MOUNTAIN PROJECT The Dark Mountain Project is a network of writers, artists, and thinkers who have stopped believing the stories our civilization tells itself. We produce and seek out writing, art, and culture rooted in place, time, and nature.
ETHICS RESOURCE CENTER — advancing high ethical standards and practices
AMERICANS WHO TELL THE TRUTH — a portrait gallery RSA creativity for social transformation VOX.COM
MATT RIDLEY, Rational Optimist
The Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER)
BREAKTHROUGH — to accelerate the transition to the future
CREATIVE TIME REPORT — artists’ unflinching perspectives on the most challenging issues of our times
THE RULES — We have the power to change the rules (Activism)
THE LEAP — Building a world based on caring for the earth and one another
THE DAILY HUBRIS — All kinds of interesting stuff and contributors.
MARIANA MAZZUCATO — Economics - Innovation - Inclusive Growth - Public Purpose
PROFESSOR RICHARD WOLFF — Richard D. Wolff is a Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
THE CLIMATE SCIENCE RAPID RESPONSE TEAM — is a match-making service to connect climate scientists with lawmakers and the media. The group is committed to providing rapid, high-quality information to media and government officials.
WHAT WAS ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY? DEMOS
THE STOA CONSORCIAM — Serving news, projects, and links for digital classicists everywhere.
KOTO COOP — A way to transition to a resource-based economy
ANTIWAR.COM — The best source for antiwar news, viewpoints, and activities
IN THESE TIMES — In 1976, author and historian James Weinstein founded In These Times with the mission to “identify and clarify the struggles against corporate power now multiplying in American society.”
MERION WEST — “I want Merion West to be such that no one can ever see an article and know before even opening it what it will say.” –Erich J. Prince, Editor
PAXFUL — Paxful is changing the world of finance. In just five years, we’ve become one of the leading peer-to-peer Bitcoin marketplaces used by millions around the world. And we’re just getting started.
PORTA SOPHIA — Porta Sophia is a 501(c)(3) non-profit created for patent reviewers around the world to help them find relevant prior art in the field of psychedelics.
The library provides convenient access to scientific literature, previous patents, historical archives, online forums, and more via a simple search tool. Key content from the public domain focuses on medical applications, means of production, drug combinations, and various drug formulations of multiple psychedelic compounds.
The mission of Porta Sophia is to protect innovation surrounding psychedelics as well as the patients who will someday benefit from their therapeutic use.
SABINE HOSSENFELDER — Sabine is the Creative Director of the YouTube channel “Science without the Gobbledygook,” where she talks about recent scientific developments and debunks hype.
TANYA MARIE LUHRMANN — I use my training in psychological anthropology to understand how people know what is real. I don’t pass judgment on whether they are right. Instead, I ask: what leads people to make the judgment that God was present? What do they perceive that makes them more confident or more uncertain? How have they learned to pay attention? What does spiritual power or a psychic awakening feel like?
I observe what people do, I listen to what they say, and I search for patterns.
IN THESE TIMES — In 1976, author and historian James Weinstein founded In These Times with the mission to “identify and clarify the struggles against corporate power now multiplying in American society.”
MERION WEST — “I want Merion West to be such that no one can ever see an article and know before even opening it what it will say.” Erich J. Prince, Editor.
PAXFUL — Paxful is changing the world of finance. In just five years, we’ve become one of the leading peer-to-peer bitcoin marketplaces used by millions around the world. And we’re just getting started.
PORTA SOPHIA — Porta Sophia is a 501(c)(3) non-profit created for patent reviewers around the world to help them find relevant prior art in the field of psychedelics.
The library provides convenient access to scientific literature, previous patents, historical archives, online forums, and more via a simple search tool. Key content from the public domain focuses on medical applications, means of production, drug combinations, and various drug formulations of multiple psychedelic compounds.
The mission of Porta Sophia is to protect innovation surrounding psychedelics as well as the patients who will someday benefit from their therapeutic use.
THE CRADLE — We chose the name The Cradle as a reminder that the cradle of civilization was borne of this region when men and women decided to settle in a single (no doubt, gorgeous) spot and grow their food. West Asia is the start of history in so many ways, but today, the region has lost its roots largely because non-sovereign states act as pawns in the geopolitical calculations of The Other.
Bleak as the outlook may be, there is cause for optimism. For the first time in centuries, West Asia has within it a group of states and actors that demonstrate genuine efficiency and share a common cause. You need a vision and a direction to extricate yourself from pandemonium, but it is efficiency that will help you realize your objective. And so 'efficiency' is a word I place much stock in—as should you, our readers.
Technology
CENTER FOR HUMAN TECHNOLOGY — We work to illuminate and reverse the harms of misaligned technology.
SHERMIN VOSHMGIR — I am the author of the book Token Economy and the founder of Token Kitchen and BlockchainHub Berlin. In the past, I was the director of the Research Institute for Cryptoeconomics at the Vienna University of Economics, which I also co-founded, a curator of TheDAO (Decentralized Investment Fund), advisor to Jolocom (Web3 Identity), Wunder (Tokenized Art), and the Estonian E-residency program. Furthermore, I studied Information Systems Management at the Vienna University of Economics and film-making in Madrid. As an Austrian with Iranian roots, I work on the intersection of technology, art & social science.
CHRISTIAN FLOURISHING — A three-year research project working toward a comprehensive Christian vision for human flourishing in a world of technology.
SCOTT GALLOWAY NO MERCY/NO MALICE — Each week, bestselling author and business professor Scott Galloway shares his take on tech and relationships in the digital economy.
BALAJI SRINIVASAN — Balaji Srinivasan (@balajis) is an angel investor and entrepreneur. Formerly the CTO of Coinbase and General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, he was also the co-founder of Earn.com (acquired by Coinbase), Counsyl (acquired by Myriad), Teleport (acquired by Topia), and Coin Center.
LESS WRONG — AI, World Modeling, and so much more…
IEEE — IEEE is the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity.
PA CONSULTING — technology innovation
BRILLIANTLY WRONG — Thoughts on science and programming
NEXT NATURE NETWORK — How not to lose sight of the human factor? Next Nature Network is the international network for anyone interested to join the debate on our future – in which nature and technology are fusing.
STEPHEN WOLFRAM — Stephen Wolfram is a British-American computer scientist, physicist, and businessman. He is known for his work in computer science, mathematics, and theoretical physics. In 2012, he was named an inaugural fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
THE BREAKTHROUGH INSTITUTE — The Breakthrough Institute is a global research center that identifies and promotes technological solutions to environmental and human development challenges.
FUTURISM — a media company based out of New York City. Our mission? To bring you the world, the news, products, and narratives of tomorrow, today.
NICK BOSTROM — Nick Bostrom is a Swedish-born philosopher and polymath with a background in theoretical physics, computational neuroscience, logic, artificial intelligence, and philosophy. He is a Professor at Oxford University, leading the Future of Humanity Institute as its founding director. (The FHI is a multidisciplinary university research centre; it is also home to the Centre for the Governance of Artificial Intelligence and to teams working on AI safety, biosecurity, macrostrategy, and various other technology or foundational questions.) He is the author of some 200 publications, including Anthropic Bias (2002), Global Catastrophic Risks (2008), Human Enhancement (2009), and Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014), a New York Times bestseller which helped spark a global conversation about artificial intelligence. Bostrom’s widely influential work, which traverses philosophy, science, ethics, and technology, has illuminated the links between our present actions and long-term global outcomes, thereby casting a new light on the human condition.
THE VENUS PROJECT — beyond politics and poverty
SPECKYBOY — The design community and web technologies move very quickly, and our weekly news is the best way to be kept in the loop.
ART SY - ART SY Dieter Rams: "Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful." — Dieter Rams.
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NOT TOO LATE — #NotT00Late is a project to invite newcomers to the climate movement and provide climate facts and encouragement for people who are already engaged but weary.
MONTEREY BAD AQUARIUM SEAFOOD WATCH: Companies rely on our scientific standards and recommendations when purchasing sustainable seafood. Our standards are built on a solid foundation of science and collaboration and set the global bar for environmentally sustainable seafood.
PETER GLEICK — Dr. Peter Gleick is a leading scientist, innovator, and communicator on water and climate issues. He co-founded the Pacific Institute in Oakland, California in 1987, one of the most innovative, independent non-governmental research centers, creating and advancing solutions to the world’s most pressing water challenges. He is currently President-emeritus and Senior Fellow at the Institute. Dr. Gleick is a scientist trained at the intersection of hydrology, climatology, and policy.
CLIMATE REANALYZER — began in early 2012 as a platform for visualizing climate and weather forecast models. Site content is organized into three general categories: Weather Forecasts, Climate Data, and Research Tools.
ELIFE — eLife is committed to bringing about real change in the way the results of research are reviewed and communicated.
BIRTHGAP FACTS — This website is a fact-based critique of the three-part 2021 film Birthgap – Childless World and its unsubstantiated assertions that population collapse due to declining fertility rates is imminent and that rising childlessness is behind this alleged crisis.
ANNA LEMBKE, MD — professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. A clinician scholar, she has published more than a hundred peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, and commentaries. She sits on the board of several state and national addiction-focused organizations, has testified before various committees in the United States House of Representatives and Senate, keeps an active speaking calendar, and maintains a thriving clinical practice.
VANDANA SHIVA — How did the willful daughter of a Himalayan forest conservator become the world’s most powerful opponent of Monsanto? The Seeds of Vandana Shiva, a feature-length documentary, presents the remarkable life story of the Gandhian eco-activist and agro-ecologist Vandana Shiva.
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR EVOLUTION, MEDICINE, AND PUBLIC HEALTH — The mission of the International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health is to foster communication among scientists, students, clinicians, and public health professionals who want to use evolutionary insights to improve medical research and practice, and to use studies of human health and disease to advance evolutionary biology.
CLIMATE EMERGENCY INSTITUTE — The site as a web-based project was started as a response to the 2008 public statement by James Hansen that the world really had entered a state of climate ''planetary emergency," which he repeated in 2012.
THE CLIMATE EMERGENCY FORUM (CEF) — We aim to increase public awareness and knowledge pertaining to abrupt climate change, the disruption of climate systems, and the loss of biodiversity and biomass, as well as emergency solutions.
CLIMATE UNCENSORED — It is simply “irresponsible” for governments of rich, industrialised nations to expand oil and gas extraction. Similarly, it’s irresponsible for ‘experts’ to dodge difficult political questions by relying on heroic technological solutions. Climate Uncensored starts from this deeply uncomfortable but honest recognition of the situation.
PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS — For over 15 years, the Pursuit of Happiness project has provided free, science-based information on life skills needed to fight depression and experience greater psychological well-being. To achieve this, more than 100 volunteer experts specializing in many fields and P/T staff have dedicated tens of thousands of hours.
NEUROLOGICA BLOG — Dr. Novella is an academic clinical neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine. He is the president and co-founder of the New England Skeptical Society. He hosts and produces the popular weekly science podcast, The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe. He is also a senior fellow and Director of Science-Based Medicine at the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF), a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI), and a founding fellow of the Institute for Science in Medicine.
CONSUMERLAB — Find the best products with instant access to our latest tests & reviews of over 1,300 health products.
SCIENCE-BASED MEDICINE — Exploring issues & controversies in science & medicine
ROLLO MAY — For nearly the next three decades, May was a Manhattan-based psychotherapist, prolific writer, and intermittent academician. His book Love and Will became a bestseller in 1969. “What is going on with you now at the deepest level that you can get a hold of?”
BILL MCKIBBEN — Thirty years ago, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about climate change. Now he broadens the warning: the entire human game, he suggests, has begun to play itself out.
AN ECOMODERNIST MANIFESTO — A manifesto to use humanity’s extraordinary powers in service of creating a good Anthropocene.
MAX WILBERT — I’m the co-author of the book Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It (Monkfish, 2021), which Dr. Vandana Shiva called “a much-needed wake-up call” and Planet of the Humans director Jeff Gibbs said, “is a must-read for all who cherish life on Earth.”
WILLIAM OPHULS — For decades, William Ophuls has been among the world's most original thinkers about the implications of our global ecological crisis for freedom, democracy, and political order.
MARCO VISSCHER — Author & speaker on energy transition, climate policy & sustainability
SIMON MICHAUX — developing a plan to transform our relationship between energy, minerals, and industrialization, as the existing proposed strategic plans are shown to be logistically impractical. Associate Professor at Geological Survey of Finland/Geologian Tutkimuskeskus, Circular Economy Solutions Unit KTR, Bach. App Sc (physics & geology) Ph.D. Mining Eng.
CRITICAL PATH INSTITUTE (C-Path) — Critical Path Institute is a catalyst in the development of new approaches to advance medical innovation and regulatory science. We achieve this by leading teams that share data, knowledge, and expertise, resulting in sound, consensus-based science.
CARA NEW DAGGETT — an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech, researches feminist political ecology. In particular, I am interested in the politics of energy in an era of planetary disruption.
THE BIG THINK — Enable transformation and drive culture at your company with lessons from the biggest thinkers in the world.
THE SLEEP DIPLOMAT — Dr. Walker is the author of the International Bestseller, Why We Sleep. It has a singular goal: to reunite humanity with sleep.
BULLETPROOF BLOG — Your body knows what to do to keep you healthy. You only have to make some simple choices.
ASHISH KOTHARI — Ashish Kothari began working on environment and development issues in his school days in 1978-79, as one of the founders of Kalpavriksh, an Indian environmental NGO. He coordinates Kalpavriksh's programme on Alternatives. A graduate in Sociology, Ashish has taught environment at the Indian Institute of Public Administration in the 1990s, and been guest faculty at several universities, institutes, and colleges.
ANIL SETH — Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, where I am also Director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science. I am also Co-Director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Program on Brain, Mind, and Consciousness and of the Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship Programme: From Sensation and Perception to Awareness. I was recently an Engagement Fellow with the Wellcome Trust.
KATE MARVEL — I'm a climate scientist, which means I get to study my favorite planet: Earth.
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MY CIRCADIAN CLOCK — Participate in this scientific research about your body clock.
RUPERT SHELDRAKE — Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D., is a biologist and author best known for his hypothesis of morphic resonance. At Cambridge University, he worked in developmental biology as a Fellow of Clare College. He was Principal Plant Physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics in Hyderabad, India. From 2005 to 2010, he was Director of the Perrott-Warrick project for research on unexplained human and animal abilities, funded by Trinity College, Cambridge.
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL — Alastair Campbell is a writer, communicator, and strategist best known for his role as former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s spokesman, press secretary, and director of communications and strategy. Still active in politics and campaigns in Britain and overseas, he now splits his time between writing, speaking, broadcasting, charities, and consultancy.
THE SOCIETY FOR SCIENCE-BASED MEDICINE — Join this organization and show you care.
KATE RAWORTH -— Exploring Doughnut Economics
WE ARE LADDER — Customized plans and effective nutrition products delivered right to your door.
ROBERT JENSEN — In his writing and teaching, Jensen draws on a variety of critical approaches to media and power. Much of his work has analyzed pornography and the radical feminist critique of sexuality and men’s violence, and he has also addressed questions of race through a critique of white privilege and institutionalized racism. Jensen's recent work has focused on ecological crises.
HAKAI MAGAZINE — Hakai Magazine explores science, society, and the environment from a coastal perspective. The magazine is funded by the Tula Foundation, which also funds the Hakai Institute, but remains editorially independent.
PUSWARE — Home of the growing Mark Crislip multimedia empire
DAVE ASPREY — A pioneer of the Biohacking movement, Dave has devoted his life to elevating human performance using the latest scientific research combined with ancient healing traditions. His mission is to share with the world the latest discoveries in health and wellness to help you break through mental and physical barriers to accomplish the unimaginable- to be superhuman!
C40 CITIES — Cities work to stop climate change.
SKEPTICAL INQUIRER — The mission of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry is to promote scientific inquiry, critical investigation, and the use of reason in examining controversial and extraordinary claims.
DEEP ADAPTATION FORUM — DAF is dedicated “to embodying and enabling loving responses to our predicament.” Our ”predicament” is societal collapse arising from our climate emergency, global economic and environmental crises, species extinction, soil degradation, extreme weather events, forced migration, historical and systemic planet and people abuse, and much more.
COLLAPSE SURVIVAL SITE — You might as well prepare.
BRIAN KLAAS — Dr. Brian Klaas is an Associate Professor in Global Politics at University College London. He is also the author of the book Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us and hosts the Power Corrupts podcast.
JENNIFER JACQUET — Jennifer Jacquet is a Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science at the University of Miami. She is also affiliated faculty at the Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy. She is the author of The Playbook (2023) and Is Shame Necessary? New Uses for an Old Tool (2015).
WORLD BEYOND WAR — World BEYOND War is a global nonviolent movement to end war and establish a just and sustainable peace.
VETERANS FOR PEACE — Veterans For Peace is a global organization of Military Veterans and allies whose collective efforts are to build a culture of peace by using our experiences and lifting our voices. We inform the public of the true causes of war and the enormous costs of wars, with an obligation to heal the wounds of wars. Our network is comprised of over 140 chapters worldwide whose work includes: educating the public, advocating for a dismantling of the war economy, providing services that assist veterans and victims of war, and, most significantly, working to end all wars.
SOAS — At SOAS, we use our expertise in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East as a lens through which to interrogate the planetary questions of our time.
DOUGHNUT ECONOMICS
Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL) is part of the emerging global movement of new economic thinking and doing. Our aim is to help create 21st-century economies that are regenerative and distributive by design so that they can meet the needs of all people within the means of the living planet. We call this Doughnut Economics.
NORRSKEN FOUNDATION — Startups leveraging scalable technology are the key to solving some of the world's greatest challenges. Norrsken is a non-profit impact ecosystem connecting founders with the capital, knowledge, and network they need to make saving the world their business. Because if they win, we all win.
CHRISTIAAN DE BEUKELAER — A sailor who works on how to decarbonise the shipping industry. Throughout his career as an anthropologist of policy, Christiaan has tried to understand how power and ideology influence governance and regulation. After working on cultural policy for a decade, he changed tack to help address the climate crisis and rethink the future of maritime transport by focusing on climate policy instead.
OK DOOMER — Sometimes, you want to know you’re not alone. That’s the point of OK Doomer. This newsletter talks about what’s really going on in the world with an unfiltered but empathetic perspective.
CLIMATE & CAPITALISM — Climate & Capitalism is part of the Monthly Review group of socialist websites: Monthly Review; MR Online; and MR Press. We are editorially independent— MR has no responsibility for our content, and vice versa — but we share technical resources and collaborate on common projects.
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND — Our vision is to build a future in which people live in harmony with nature. To deliver this mission, we work to conserve and restore biodiversity, the web that supports all life on Earth; to reduce humanity’s environmental footprint; and to ensure the sustainable use of natural resources to support current and future generations.
FABIAN SCHEIDLER — Fabian Scheidler studied history and philosophy at the Free University of Berlin and theatre directing at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. He works and lives in Berlin as a writer for print media, television, theatre, and opera. In 2009, he co-founded the independent newscast Kontext TV, which has since produced over 100 broadcasts on global justice issues.
THE ALTERNATIVE — This makes the difference between a localism that cannot sustain itself because it is simply too small with limited resources of skills and expertise. And one that is able to build its own regenerative economy entirely through access to the global commons. This is subtly different from the old Green slogan, “Think global, act local”. As much as we need an element of the biggest perspective in our local thinking, we now need more focus on the needs of people in their communities. Planet A offers you a place to re-orientate, pull the strands together and build—feet on the ground, mind, body, and spirit in the emerging possible. Here you can experience futures organising, future economies, and future flourishing in the present moment, ready to converge in a town or city near you.
THE BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE — The Brownstone Institute is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization founded in May 2021. Its vision is of a society that places the highest value on the voluntary interaction of individuals and groups while minimizing the use of violence and force, including that exercised by public or private authorities. This vision is that of the Enlightenment, which elevated learning, science, progress, and universal rights to the forefront of public life. It is constantly threatened by ideologies and systems that would take the world back to before the triumph of the ideal of freedom.
THE INSTITUTE FOR PEACE AND DIPLOMACY — The Institute for Peace & Diplomacy (IPD) is a non-profit and non-partisan North American international affairs think tank operating in the United States and Canada dedicated to promoting dialogue, diplomacy, prudent realism, and military restraint—principles which we believe are the four cornerstones of sustainable peace in an increasingly complex and dynamic international system.
BARENBOIM-SAID FOUNDATION USA — We are not a political organization. We cannot solve the Middle East conflict. But we believe that the destinies of Palestinians and Israelis are inextricably linked and that we can help break barriers considered insurmountable. Music makes people emotionally receptive. The very structures and forms of music are central to human interaction. The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra opens up channels of communication based on equality, cooperation, and justice for all. Our musicians don’t just listen to music; they listen to each other.
BARI WEISS — Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet Magazine.
THE FREE PRESS — A new media company built on the ideals that were once the bedrock of American journalism. With a focus on stories that are ignored or misconstrued in the service of an ideological narrative. For us, curiosity isn’t a liability. It’s a necessity.
OURWORLDINDATA.ORG — Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
WELCOME TO THE ANTHROPOCENE — Welcome to the Anthropocene is the world's first educational web portal on the Anthropocene. It aims to inspire, educate, and engage people about the interactions between humans and the planet.
SABRINA FERNANDES — Sabrina Fernandes was born in Goiânia, Brazil, in 1988. She has a PhD in Sociology and a Master’s in Political Economy from Carleton University, Canada. She is currently the Head of Research at the Alameda Institute, created to foster engaged and critical research on transitioning away from an age of catastrophe.
CARA NEW DAGGETT — Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech where I research feminist political ecology. In particular, I am interested in the politics of energy in an era of planetary disruption. My path to feminism and environmental politics began in the science classroom. After studying biochemistry as an undergraduate, I began medical school, hoping to address inequities in health outcomes.
OUR FINITE WORLD — The author of Our Finite World is Gail Tverberg. She is a researcher focused on figuring out how energy limits and the economy are really interconnected and what this means for our future. Her background is as a casualty actuary, working in insurance forecasting.
EVONOMICS — The next evolution of economics. Changes in economic thinking can change the world for the better. That’s the core belief that inspires Evonomics.
DiEM25 — Democracy in Europe Movement 2025
PATRICK LAWRENCE — a writer and columnist. He has published five books and is now at work on his sixth. He served as a correspondent abroad for many years and is also an essayist, editor, and critic.
DISSENT MAGAZINE — Dissent is a quarterly magazine of politics and ideas. Founded by Irving Howe and Lewis Coser in 1954, it quickly established itself as one of America’s leading intellectual journals and a mainstay of the democratic left. Dissent has published articles by Hannah Arendt, Richard Wright, Norman Mailer, A. Philip RandOolph, Michael Harrington, Dorothy Day, Bayard Rustin, Czesław Miłosz, Barbara Ehrenreich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Chinua Achebe, Ellen Willis, Octavio Paz, Martha Nussbaum, Roxane Gay, and many others.
ASTERISK — Asterisk is a quarterly journal of writing and clear thinking about things that matter. We’re for Bayes’ theorem, acknowledging our uncertainty, wild imaginations, and well-constructed sentences. We’re against easy answers, lazy metaphors, and the end of life as we know it.
THE LIBERTARIAN INSTITUTE — Your source for news, journalism, education, and activism from a libertarian perspective.
OPEN BUSINESS INSTITUTE — The OBI system is open source, collaborative, and distributed. Our focus is on low cost and rapidly-built structures that are modular, ecological, and energy efficient.
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN CULTURE — The Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture is an interdisciplinary research center and intellectual community committed to understanding contemporary cultural change and its individual and social consequences, training young scholars, and providing intellectual leadership in service to the common good. The Institute is part of the University of Virginia, which has consistently ranked as one of the nation’s premier public universities.
MODERN AGE — A CONSERVATIVE REVIEW
UNQUALIFIED RESERVATIONS — a critical re-evaluation of “democracy” from the perspective of political engineering and informed by a study of the great political thinkers of the past.
GLOBAL WITNESS — Our goal is a more sustainable, just and equal planet. We want forests and biodiversity to thrive, fossil fuels to stay in the ground and corporations to prioritise the interests of people and the planet.
DANIEL ELLSBERG — After returning to the RAND Corporation in 1967, Ellsberg worked on the top-secret McNamara study, U.S. Decision-making in Vietnam, 1945-68, which later came to be known as the Pentagon Papers. In 1969, he photocopied the 7,000-page study and gave it to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. In 1971 he gave it to the New York Times, the Washington Post and 17 other newspapers. Ellsberg’s subsequent trial on twelve felony counts, posing a possible sentence of 115 years, was dismissed in 1973 on grounds of governmental misconduct against him, leading to the convictions of several White House aides and figuring in the impeachment proceedings against President Nixon.
WAR ON TERROR FILM FESTIVAL — The War on Terror Film Festival is a month-long, public virtual event featuring 20 award-winning films made over the last 20 years that document abuses, highlight crimes, and satirize absurdities of the “war on terror.
U.S. DIGITAL RESPONSE — USDR leverages a network of pro bono technical expertise to address common, systemic challenges facing public servants.
OTHER WORLDS — OtherWords is a free editorial service published by the Institute for Policy Studies. Each week, we publish a package of op-eds and columns, plus an original cartoon, and distribute them to readers, editors, and publishers through our website and newsletter. Hundreds of newspapers and websites reaching millions of readers use this work each year.
THE EMANCIPATION PARTY — Money corrupts politics, and politics corrupts money. An electorate driven to cynicism by the corrosive effect of money in politics either becomes disengaged or radicalized.
Both of which are poison to democracy.
THE SCHILLER INSTITUTE — Schiller writes in his 4th letter: It can be said that every individual human being carries in their disposition and nature a pure ideal human being within themselves, and it is the great task of each person’s existence, through all their changes, to harmonize with this unchangeable unity.
THE BISMARCK BRIEF — Bismarck Brief sends out a new report every week with analysis of an important institution, industry, or live player, to equip subscribers with navigation-grade information about the state of the world.
EDWARD BURTYNSKY — Nature transformed through industry is a predominant theme in my work. I set course to intersect with a contemporary view of the great ages of man; from stone, to minerals, oil, transportation, silicon, and so on.
NATE HAGENS, THE GREAT SIMPLIFICATION — The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens is a podcast that explores the systems science underpinning the human predicament. Conversation topics will span human behavior, monetary/economic systems, energy, ecology, geopolitics and the environment. The show aims to inform more humans about the path ahead and inspire people to play a role in our collective future. Guests will be from a wide range of scientists, leaders, activists, thinkers, and doers.
LifeItself — In this blog, I continue to write about the environment, ecology, energy, complexity, and humans. Of particular interest to me are human self-delusions and mad stampedes to nowhere.
HUMAN ENERGY — We envision a global human society that recognizes itself as a meaningful unity—a new kind of superorganism, or Noosphere. The noosphere began forming with early human culture and has accelerated with modern technologies of interconnection. It represents a vision of global integration for the immense variety of human beings and communities that continue to create it. The healthy Noosphere we envision will have respect for the biosphere from which it emerged and with which it continues to share the Earth.
THOMAS FUCHS — Dr. Thomas Fuchs, psychiatrist and philosopher, is head of the section Phenomenological Psychopathology and Psychotherapy at the University of Heidelberg. He is the coordinator of the Heidelberg Marsilius-Project “Embodiment as a Paradigm of an Evolutionary Cultural Anthropology,” and chairman of the German Society for Phenomenological Anthropology, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (DGAP). He was coordinator of the European Marie-Curie Research Training Networks “DISCOS – Disorders and Coherence of the Embodied Self” (2007-2011) and “TESIS”—Towards an Embodied Science of Intersubjectivity” (2012-2016), and of the Joint National Research Project “The Brain as an Organ of Interrelations” (2008-2011).
NAOMI KLEIN — Canadian writer and activist Naomi Klein has been one of the most forceful and even lyrical voices for social justice for decades. Today, this transformative program has a name: the Green New Deal.
CRAIG MURRAY — Craig Murray is an author, broadcaster, and human rights activist. He was British Ambassador to Uzbekistan from August 2002 to October 2004 and Rector of the University of Dundee from 2007 to 2010.
NYM PROJECT — We’re here to build the next generation of privacy infrastructure
ALAN WATTS — The Alan Watts Organization is dedicated to preserving Alan’s legacy through archival efforts and creative partnerships. Our goal is to make his work accessible digitally as well as through traditional media, and to help spread his message to future generations.
THOMPSON REUTERS FOUNDATION — We are the corporate foundation of Thomson Reuters, the global news and information services company. As an independent charity registered in the UK and the USA, we work to advance media freedom, foster more inclusive economies, and promote human rights. Through news, media development, free legal assistance, and convening initiatives, we combine our unique services to drive systemic change.
PEOPLE’S DISPATCH — an international media project with the mission of bringing to you voices from people’s movements and organizations across the globe. Since its establishment three years ago, it has sought to ensure that the coverage of news from around the world is not restricted to the rhetoric of politicians and the fortunes of big companies but encompasses the richness and diversity of mobilizations from around the world.
RETHINKX — RethinkX is an independent think tank that analyzes and forecasts the speed and scale of technology-driven disruption and its implications across society. We produce impartial, data-driven analyses that identify pivotal choices to be made by investors, business, policy and civic leaders.
UNCTAD — Globalization, including a phenomenal expansion of trade, has helped lift millions out of poverty. But not nearly enough people have benefited. And tremendous challenges remain.
We support developing countries to access the benefits of a globalized economy more fairly and effectively. And we help equip them to deal with the potential drawbacks of greater economic integration. To do this, we provide analysis, facilitate consensus-building, and offer technical assistance. This helps them to use trade, investment, finance, and technology as vehicles for inclusive and sustainable development.
HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION — We consider our mission essential given that today more than 4 billion people live under tyranny. That’s 54% of the world’s population in 95 countries from Cuba to Russia to Saudi Arabia to North Korea.
CULT OF MONEY — Cult of Money is about personal finance for the crypto-curious. We're making it our mission to simplify the complex world of cryptocurrency, DeFi, NFTs, and other emerging financial technologies so that you can apply these new tools to help you build wealth.
CENTRE FOR COUNTER HEGEMONIC STUDIES — The Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies (CCHS) was formed in early 2016 after concern that many western academic bodies constrain, censor and marginalise counter-hegemonic or anti-imperial research and discussion, due to their close ties with government and corporate sponsors.
This conditioning of debate over imperialism, neo-colonialism and struggles for self-determination limits research and debate. It places an effective gag on academic discussion of important contemporary matters.
GREENBIZ — Can businesses create systemic change? Leading the transition to a more just and sustainable world will require fundamentally rethinking a broad range of assumptions.
JUST SECURITY — Just Security is an online forum for the rigorous analysis of national security, foreign policy, and rights.
DECLASSIFIED UK — We investigate Britain’s military and intelligence agencies, its most powerful corporations, and its impact on human rights and the environment.
TRICONTINENTAL — Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research is an international, movement-driven institution focused on stimulating intellectual debate that serves people’s aspirations.
MOTHER PELICAN — The mission of this website is to collect and curate emerging research on global social/ecological justice issues, with a special focus on fostering integral human development in an integral ecology. It will also publish monthly updates via the Mother Pelican Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability.
METAMODERNA — Metamodernism is the philosophy and view of life that corresponds to the digitalized, postindustrial, global age. This can be contrasted against modern and postmodern philosophies.
CONSORTIUM NEWS — well-reported stories and to challenge the many misguided conventional wisdom.
HOW TO SAVE THE WORLD — Dave Pollard — Responsible, sustainable, joyful work…
FULL FACT — Bad information ruins lives. We’re a team of independent fact-checkers and campaigners who find, expose and counter the harm it does.
THIS VIEW OF LIFE — THIS VIEW OF LIFE covers anything and everything from an evolutionary perspective. Founded in 2014 by David Sloan Wilson and Robert Kadar, it is the only online magazine representing the evolutionary worldview by scientists for scientists and the scientifically curious general readership. TVOL is written primarily by evolutionary biologists and scholars that expand upon, as well as critique, evolutionary thought and its implications for contemporary life.
FORCE FOR GOOD — The Force for Good Initiative's mission is to mobilise the deployment of capital as a force for good in the world at a time of profound and multi-dimensional change in the world. The initiative engages the world's leading financial institutions and other stakeholders with a view to impacting sustainable development through the deployment of capital and solutions that address the world's greatest issues and build a better future.
DIGITAL EUROPE — upgrade your consciousness from market capital to social capital.
MODERN DIPLOMACY — Modern Diplomacy is an invaluable platform for assessing and evaluating complex international issues that are often outside the boundaries of mainstream Western media and academia. We provide impartial and unbiased qualitative analysis in the form of political commentary, policy inquiry, in-depth interviews, special reports, and commissioned research.
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THE MILL SERIES — TMS advocates the free exchange of honest ideas but is otherwise non-partisan and apolitical. We seek to promote greater viewpoint diversity at Lafayette College, believing that genuine and unfettered dialogue between political and ideological opponents is necessary for the pursuit of truth and the intellectual and characterological development of students.
DAVID SWANSON — is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is the executive director of World BEYOND War and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org. Swanson’s books include War Is A Lie and When the World Outlawed War. He blogs at DavidSwanson.org and WarIsACrime.org. He hosts Talk World Radio. He is a Nobel Peace Prize Nominee.
RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT — Responsible Statecraft is the online magazine of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. It publishes outside contributors and reporters as well as staff analysis, opinion, and news to promote a positive, non-partisan vision of U.S. foreign policy and critique the ideologies and interests that have mired the United States in counterproductive and endless wars and made the world less secure.
RSA — We are the RSA. The royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce. We’re committed to a future that works for everyone. A future where we can all participate in its creation.
ANTHROPOCENE — Get the latest sustainability science delivered to your inbox every week
THE AUTOMATIC EARTH — For years, The Automatic Earth has presented the most consistently intelligent, wide-ranging, and intellectually rigorous view of the overall ongoing financial fiasco in the written blog format. – James Howard Kunstler
Skepticism & Critical Thinking:
ROOTCLAIM — Rootclaim outperforms human reasoning by correcting for the biases and flaws of human intuition. The platform integrates all available evidence, assesses it for credibility, and uses probabilistic models to reach conclusions about the likelihood of competing hypotheses. Its conclusions represent the best available understanding of the complexity and uncertainty in our world.
THE SKEPTIC’S GUIDE TO THE UNIVERSE
CARL SAGAN’S BALONEY DETECTION KIT
JOE LAU’S CRITICAL THINKING WEB
WHAT'S THE HARM? — So, what's wrong with pseudoscience anyway?
SKEPTOID — Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomena with Brian Dunning
THE CONSPIRACY SKEPTIC — with Karl Mamer
CON ARTIST — hall of infamy
FACTS AND MYTHS — FactMyth.com is a fact-checking website that presents a collection of facts and myths. It is an educational resource full of explainer videos, citations, history, logic, and science.
JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER — says he wrote The Geography of Nowhere “Because I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside that makes up the everyday environment where most Americans live and work.”
POWER SEDUCTION & WAR — Robert Green
YOU ARE NOT SO SMART — A celebration of self-delusion
JASON SILVA — Storyteller, futurist, Brain Games
ANTHONY MAGNABOSCO — Street Epistemology
LOGICALLY FALLACIOUS — the ultimate collection of over 300 logical fallacies
THE ART OF WAR SUN TSU’S CLASSIC
SKEPTIC NORTH — crapping all over bad arguments like a Canadian Goose
SKEPTICAL SOFTWARE TOOLS — Applying the power of the programmable web to the purposes of skepticism.
SKEPTIC BLOG — from some of the best skeptics in the world
SNIFF CODE — hacking into the human
MICHAEL SHERMER — the work of
SNOPES — Rumor has it… Who’s fact-checking the fact-checkers?
JAMES RANDI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
CRITICAL THINKER ACADEMY — learn how to think, not what to think
SOCIAL-ENGINEERING .org
THE SKEPTICAL TEACHER — Musings of a science teacher and skeptic in an age of woo
My name is Dr Rohin Francis and I am a cardiologist in the UK. I trained in London and Cambridge and I am currently undertaking a Ph.D. at University College London.
I make YouTube videos concentrating on topics that don't get covered elsewhere like offbeat science, understanding why modern medicine doesn't always work, or forgotten chapters of history. Then I ruin it all by crowbarring in as many bad jokes as I can. Studies have shown that watching is associated with a 400% relative risk increase of becoming a more fragrant human being (actual risk increase 0.002%).
Science, Technology & Engineering:
BBC Radio 4 — INSIDE SCIENCE. Dr. Adam Rutherford and guests illuminate the mysteries and challenge the controversies behind the science that’s changing our world.
Surplus Energy Economics — HOW THE WEAKENING ENERGY EQUATION THREATENS THE ECONOMY, FINANCE AND GOVERNMENT
EARTH.NULLSCHOOL.NET — Global map of currents, wind, and climate.
WORLD OCEAN ATLAS — The World Ocean Atlas (WOA) is a collection of objectively analyzed, quality-controlled temperature, salinity, oxygen, phosphate, silicate, and nitrate means based on profile data from the World Ocean Database (WOD). It can be used to create boundary and/or initial conditions for a variety of ocean models, verify numerical simulations of the ocean, and corroborate satellite data.
PETER BRANNEN — Deep Time. Peter Brannen is an award-winning (and often losing) science journalist and contributing writer at The Atlantic. His work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Wired, Aeon, The Boston Globe, Slate, and The Guardian, among other publications. His book, The Ends of the World, about the five major mass extinctions in Earth's history, was published in 2017 by Ecco.
REGENERATION — Regeneration is a radical new approach to the climate crisis, one that weaves justice, climate, biodiversity, and human dignity into a seamless tapestry of action, policy, and transformation that can end the climate crisis in one generation. It is the first book to describe and define the burgeoning regeneration movement spreading rapidly throughout the world.
DAVID BRIN — David Brin's Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California at San Diego (the lab of Nobel List Hannes Alfven), followed by a master’s in optics and an undergraduate degree in astrophysics from Caltech. David Brin's non-fiction book, The Transparent Society: Will Technology Force Us to Choose Between Freedom and Privacy?, continues to receive acclaim for its accuracy in predicting 21st-century concerns about online security, secrecy, accountability, and privacy.
DR BJØRN EKEBERG — BJØRN EKEBERG writes and creates high-end scripted drama and has a special affinity for thrillers with contemporary relevance.
He co-wrote the award-winning drama series VALKYRIEN for NRK and Channel 4, named on both New York Times and BBC's Top 10 list in 2017, and currently in remake in the UK as Temple, for Sky.
EVOLUTION NEWS — Evolution News & Science Today (EN) provides original reporting and analysis about evolution, neuroscience, bioethics, intelligent design, and other science-related issues, including breaking news about scientific research. It also covers the impact of science on culture and conflicts over free speech and academic freedom in science. Finally, it fact-checks and critiques media coverage of scientific issues.
GENETIC LITERACY PROJECT — the Genetic Literacy Project is a nonpartisan media-based outreach and educational nonprofit charity committed to aiding the public, journalists, and policymakers to improve the lives of our global community by promoting science literacy. The GLP challenges misinformation and supports transparent, ethical, science-based regulations of biotechnology and related sciences that are revolutionizing medicine, advancing sustainable farming and food practices in the face of increasing climate disruption, and limiting dangers posed by disease-carrying plant, insect, and rodent pests. We stand by two principles: ‘Science Not Ideology’ and ‘Fact-Based Science to Serve the Public Interest.’ To fulfill our mission, the GLP partners across ideological and political lines.
PROTOCOL — Technology is no longer just an industry; it’s a global power center with the sweep and impact of any nation’s capital. At Protocol, we cover it like one.
We focus on the people, power, and politics of tech, with no agenda and just one goal: to arm decision-makers in tech, business, and public policy with the unbiased, fact-based news and analysis they need to navigate a world in rapid change.
A FINE LIST OF FREE SCIENCE BOOKS
HERITAGE DAILY — HeritageDaily is an independent publisher of the latest scientific discoveries, research, and travel news.
CLOSER TO TRUTH — Closer To Truth presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.
CLIMATE FEEDBACK — Accurate information is the foundation of a functioning democracy
LATEST THINKING — LATEST THINKING is an independent Open Access Video Journal providing summaries of research findings covering all academic fields from anthropology to physics, from biology to philosophy.
THE INSTITUTE FOR ETHICS AND EMERGING
THE NAKED SCIENTISTS — Award-winning science podcasts and science radio shows
THE FEYNMAN LECTURES — Caltech and The Feynman Lectures
SMARTER THAN THAT — When in doubt, try it out!
BAYES' RULE: GUIDE — Bayes' rule or Bayes' theorem is the law of probability governing the strength of evidence - the rule saying how much to revise our probabilities (change our minds) when we learn a new fact or observe new evidence.
THE OPEN NOTEBOOK — The story behind the best science stories.
THE ROYAL SOCIETY — The Royal Society is a Fellowship of many of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.
THE INFINITE MONKEY CAGE — science/comedy
MARTIN REES — cosmology & astrophysics
DR. BERIL SIRMACACEK — Computer Vision and A.I. I have been merging my computer vision background with the power of AI, for the early prediction of diseases of crops as well as human tissues. I am hoping that early prediction can do a lot for the prevention of worrisome situations.
BAD ASTRONOMY — Phil Plait
NATALIA REAGAN — Where science, comedy, and unsettling love of primates collide.
STUART HAMEROFF MD — The nature of consciousness remains deeply mysterious and profoundly important, with existential, medical, and spiritual implications.
SLATE STAR CODEX — Welcome to Slate Star Codex, a blog about science, medicine, philosophy, politics, and futurism.
ARBITAL — Arbital is a hybrid blogging and wiki platform. To see what kind of content you can create, take a look at the math and AI alignment sections.
THE HUMAN EVOLUTION BLOG — Professor Nathan H. Lents and His Students Discuss Human Origins
ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY — writes about the fine art of human rationality
DAVE LEVITAN — Science Journalist
GINGER CAMPBELL, MD / THE BRAIN SCIENCE PODCAST
DAVID DEUTSCH — quantum computation
STEPHEN WOLFRAM — Stephen Wolfram is the creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha, and the Wolfram Language; the author of A New Kind of Science; the originator of the Wolfram Physics Project; and the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research. Over the course of more than four decades, he has been a pioneer in the development and application of computational thinking—and has been responsible for many discoveries, inventions, and innovations in science, technology, and business.
STERIO - SPACE BASED OBSERVATORY amazing images
CULTURE OF SCIENCE – Sheril Kirshenbaum
AL BARTLETT — professor emeritus, physics
LESS WRONG — a community blog devoted to refining the art of human rationality
DAN ARIELY — I do research in behavioral economics and try to describe it in plain language. These findings have enriched my life, and my hope is that they will do the same for you.
THE NEW SCIENTIST — topic evolution
THE RICHARD DAWKINS FOUNDATION — for reason and science
OFFICE FOR SCIENCE & SOCIETY — Separating sense from nonsense McGill University
PHARYNGULA — evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE — for kids
ON INTELLIGENCE — Jeff Hawkins & Sandra Blakeslee
LIST OF FREE SCIENCE BOOKS — physics database
EVOLUTION — 7 lectures
PHARYNGULA — PZ Myers blog/biology and evolution
HELIOPHAGE — OLIVER MORTON'S BOOKBLOG FOR EATING THE SUN
ERIK VANCE — science writer extraordinaire
COCKTAIL PARTY PHYSICS — serving up science and culture with a splash of wit
QUANTA MAGAZINE — Illuminating science.
INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE IN SOCIETY — Great stuff about science, society, and sustainability.
AGRICULTURAL BIODIVERSITY WEBLOG — Agrobiodiversity consists of info. about crops, livestock, microbes, pollinators, wild relatives
RUSS GEORGE — The reason to do all this is about working to pioneer new methods to save the world - one ocean plankton bloom, one forest, not one discovery at a time.
CARBON COMMENTARY — Chris Goodall writes about the many options the world can use to move away from fossil fuels.
BIOLOGY FORTIFIED — Stronger life, stronger science, and stronger communication
ANTHROPOCENE JOURNAL — peer-reviewed science articles about humanities impact on the Earth
BAD SCIENCE / BAD PHARMA — with Ben Goldacre
Dr Güneş Taylor — is a postdoctoral research scientist at The Francis Crick Institute. As a molecular biologist, she uses many cutting-edge technologies to understand how reproductive systems are built. She is in the process of establishing her own independent research program, unravelling details of ovarian function, with the ultimate hope of developing solutions for women’s health and fertility.
BOAS — A space for anthropologists to share their work.
CLASSICAL WISDOM — Most people today don’t realize it. They don’t understand that we are perched on the shoulders of giants. Shoulders that have shaped our culture, our myths, and our literature. Shoulders that are the very foundations of Western Civilization. They look at their iPads and forget that the view from where we stand is because of all those who came before us. And while the vista from our elevated position is wonderful, we need to take a moment to appreciate and learn where we came from.
BBC Radio 4 — A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN 100 OBJECTS.
NATIONAL TRUST COLLECTION — National Trust Collections make up, as a whole, one of the world's largest and most significant holdings of art and heritage, a living cultural resource accessible to everyone.
STEVEN PINKER — Language, Cognition, and Human Nature
LAPHAM’S QUARTERLY — A Magazine of History and Ideas
BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE
THE AMERICAN EMPIRE PROJECT — great books you want to read!
STEPHEN KOTKIN — Professor Kotkin has been teaching in the department since 1989. He holds a joint appointment in the Princeton School for Public and International Affairs at Princeton. He is also a Research Scholar at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Book by Stephen Kotkin
DAN CARLIN — hardcore history
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
MARINA AMARAL — History in Color: Color has the power to bring life back to the most important moments.
YUVAL NOAH HARARI — Author of Sapiens, Homo Deus, and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
ANACYCLOSIS INSTITUTE — The Anacyclosis Institute (formerly The Institute for Anacyclosis) is a non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to the study of historical patterns, with a special focus on the lifecycle of democracy. We also design policy solutions that, if implemented, would rehabilitate the American middle class and revitalize American democracy. Our name is derived from ἀνακύκλωσις, the ancient Greek word for the cycle of political revolution.
Let’s be friends and collaborate.
LIZZY BELLE — sailor/filmmaker David Welsford
Connect with each other—loneliness is a social disease that kills.
Miscellaneous
RESILIENCE .org — building a world of resilient communities
CHARLES ORMAND EAMES JR. — Charles Ormand Eames Jr., a nearly-licensed architect born in St. Louis in 1907, and Bearnice Alexandra “Ray” Kaiser, an abstract painter born in Sacramento in 1912, are cemented into the canon of 20th-century design. Since uniting in 1940, these partners in life and work have been internationally recognized at the forefront of the design, architecture, filmmaking, and furniture communities.
UMAIR HAQUE — on global prosperity
ATLAS OBSCURA — The definitive guide to the world’s hidden wonders.
OVER GROW — The System
LibriVox — free audiobooks
PROJECT GUTENBERG — Free Book Downloads
READ PRINT — Book Club
SURVIVAL NEWS ONLINE — Self-Reliance for Everyone
COURSERA — courses online
TIDES — what’s possible
THE WORLD'S FAVORITE CURRENCY CONVERTER
WOLFRAM — computation meets knowledge
LOCAL TOWER FARMS — grow your food vertically
FIVE INVITATIONS — Coming to terms with death.
GLOBAL INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CENTER
Education
SPONGELAB — a global science community
THOUGHTCO — ThoughtCo is a premier reference site with a 20+ year focus on expert-created education content.
CODE .org — learn, teach, promote
WILL STORR — Will Storr is an award-winning writer. He’s the author of six critically acclaimed books, including the novel The Hunger and The Howling of Killian Lone and the Sunday Times bestseller The Science of Storytelling.
COURSERA — take the world's best courses online for free
Diane Ravitch blog — historian of education
DR. ZACHARY STEIN — I’ve published two books. Social Justice and Educational Measurement was based on my dissertation and traces the history of standardized testing and its ethical implications. My second book, Education in a Time Between Worlds, expands the philosophical work to include grappling with the relations between schooling and technology more broadly. I also write for peer-reviewed academic journals across a range of topics, including the philosophy of learning, educational technology, and integral theory. My work has appeared in a variety of journals, including American Psychologist, New Ideas in Psychology, Mind, Brain, and Education, Integral Review, and the Journal of Philosophy of Education.
THE THIRTY YEARS WAR, 400 YEARS LATER — We'll learn a bit about the constitution of the Holy Roman Empire, meet the Habsburg family, and take a gander at some other related issues in Europe at the time of the outbreak of the conflict in 1618.
Psychology & Cognitive Science
PSYCHE — Psyche is a digital magazine from Aeon that illuminates the human condition through psychology, philosophy, and the arts.
ROBERT SAPOLSKY — He is the John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Professor of Biological Sciences, Neurology, and Neurological Sciences, at Stanford University. Dr. Sapolsky is the author of several informative and comical books that present cutting-edge psychoneurobiological knowledge in an enjoyable, easy-to-read format. He's also a renowned researcher and award-winning professor at Stanford University.
GREGG HENRIQUES — For over 20 years, I have been passionate about the possibility of developing a more integrated and coherent way of approaching the field of psychology and the work of psychotherapy. I first published my approach for developing a theoretically unified view of the field in 2003, and I have been expanding on that view and its implications ever since. In 2011, I outlined my approach in the book, A New Unified Theory of Psychology.
CARBON COPIES — Promoting Research and Development for Whole Brain Emulation
JORDAN SHAPIRO PH.D. — He is an international speaker and consultant whose fresh perspective combines psychology, philosophy, and economics in unexpected ways.
HUBERMAN LAB — The Huberman Lab podcast is hosted by Dr. Andrew Huberman, a neuroscientist and tenured professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. The podcast discusses neuroscience and science-based tools, including how our brain and its connections with the organs of our body control our perceptions, our behaviors, and our health, as well as existing and emerging tools for measuring and changing how our nervous system works.
BRUCE E. LEVINE — Bruce E. Levine writes and speaks widely on how society, culture, politics, and psychology intersect. His latest book is Resisting Illegitimate Authority: A Thinking Person’s Guide to Being an Anti-Authoritarian: Strategies, Tools, and Models (2018). Earlier books include Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite (2011); Surviving America’s Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (2007); and Commonsense Rebellion: Taking Back Your Life from Drugs, Shrinks, Corporations, and a World Gone Crazy (2003).
JOSEPH HENRICH — What drove human evolution? How did our species go from being a relatively unremarkable primate a few million years ago to the most successful species globally?
ELISABETH Kübler-Ross M.D. — a Swiss-born psychiatrist, a pioneer in Near-death studies, and the author of the groundbreaking book On Death and Dying (1969). These Five Stages of Grief are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
THINKER — a cognitive psychology resource
ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
ROBERT KURSBAN — 'Why everyone else is a hypocrite...'
GEOFFREY MILLER — evolutionary psychology
DR. HECTOR A. GARCIA — Hector is a clinical psychologist specializing in combat-related PTSD
DR. JAMES GILLIGAN, M.D. — Solving Violence Violence Expert
DR. LISA FELDMAN BARRETT — How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
JOHN VERVAEKE — John Vervaeke, Ph.D. is an award-winning professor at the University of Toronto in the psychology, cognitive science, and Buddhist psychology departments.
ATHANATOS FOUNDATION — The Athanatos Foundation is dedicated to promoting interdisciplinary dialogue and collaborations inspired by The Immortality Key. We aim to explore the hidden realms of human history through both a scientific and humanistic lens, uncovering the meaning-making practices of our ancestors that have endured for millennia.
THE RED HAND FILES — The Red Hand Files began in September of 2018 as a simple idea – a place where I would answer questions from my fans. Over the years, The Red Hand Files has burst the boundaries of its original concept to become a strange exercise in communal vulnerability and transparency. Hundreds of letters come in each week, asking an extraordinarily diverse array of questions, from the playful to the profound, the deeply personal to the flat-out nutty. I read them all and try my best to answer a question each week. The Red Hand Files has no moderator, and it is not monetized, and I am the only one with access to the questions that sit patiently waiting to be answered. Thank you all for being a part of what has become, at least for me, a life-changing, soul-enriching exercise in commonality and togetherness. Love, Nick Cave
MIZAN — Mizan is a digital initiative dedicated to encouraging informed public discourse and interdisciplinary scholarship on the culture and history of Muslim societies. The word ‘Mizan’ means balance.
HUGO MENDEZ, Ph.D. — I have sustained research interests in the Gospel and Epistles of John and the reception of biblical texts, figures, and images in late antiquity.
NEW HUMANIST — a quarterly culture and science magazine published since 1885. “New Humanist” is for anyone who wants to understand the ideas, conflicts, and systems shaping our world - climate, capitalism, technology, fundamentalism, struggles for equality, and more. We publish a beautiful edition once every three months full of serious, intelligent essays and reportage.
MARSHALL McLUHAN — After Manitoba, graduate work at Cambridge University planted the seed for McLuhan’s eventual move toward media analysis. Looking back on both his own Cambridge years and the longer history of the institution, he reflected that a principal aim of the faculty could be summarized as the training of perception. This phrase aptly summarizes his own aim throughout his career.
SLATE STAR CODEX — Welcome to Slate Star Codex, a blog about science, medicine, philosophy, politics, and futurism. SSC is the project of Scott Alexander, a psychiatrist on the US West Coast.
GIO PENNACCHIETTI — writer, impressionist painter, gonzo philosopher, and graduate (M.A. in Philosophy/M.A. in Political Science) from The first “post-national” country, as described by the current regime of Trudeau the junior. Most political labels I find unsatisfactory, so I identify as a “traditionalist” in the philosophic sense.
WES CECIL — When I was first old enough to ride my bike around freely, I would ride to the library in my hometown. I thought there was nothing better in the world, and I feel the same way today. I received my BA from Fresno State University in English after taking classes in a wide variety of disciplines. I then studied literature and critical theory at Indiana University, where I earned my MA and PhD. My dissertation adviser was the brilliant Professor Dianne Elam. I have lived and worked in Port Townsend, Washington, for the last twenty years. Besides gardening and generally wandering about in the woods, I have written a few books and plays and delivered a series of well-received public lectures under the auspices of Peninsula College.
MATTHEW B. CRAWFORD — Matthew B. Crawford attended the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he majored in physics. Later, he earned a Ph.D. in political philosophy from the University of Chicago, specializing in ancient political thought. Currently, he is a senior fellow at the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture but lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
JAMES POGUE — I’m a Contributing Editor at Harper’s, and write about national politics for Vanity Fair. I’ve written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and the London Review of Books, among many others. I was a 2022 Alicia Patterson Fellow and have received support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. I live in Los Angeles, where I help run a native plant nursery. My first book is called Chosen Country: A Rebellion in the West.
STEPHEN HICKS, PH.D. — Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, Illinois, USA, Executive Director of the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship, and Senior Scholar at The Atlas Society.
JAY DYER — Jay Dyer is an author, comedian, and TV presenter known for his analysis of Hollywood, geopolitics, and culture. Jay is a reader of Orthodox Christianity.
ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY — UK’s largest independent charitable foundation devoted to sharing philosophical thinking as widely as possible. Addressing fundamental questions across the whole breadth of philosophy, we aim to bring these questions to the curious of every age and background and empower them to address them for themselves.
THE ATLAS SOCIETY — Promotes open Objectivism: the philosophy of reason, achievement, individualism, and freedom.
DAVID EDMONDS — He’s a Distinguished Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. He is an ad hoc columnist for the Jewish Chronicle and a former contributing editor to Prospect Magazine.
CARROLL QUIGLEY — I have told my students that I have been trying to train executives rather than clerks for years. The distinction between the two is parallel to the distinction previously made between understanding and knowledge.
GEORGE CASE — I’m the author of several books and numerous articles that have appeared in newspapers, magazines, anthologies, and online. My titles include Silence Descends: The End of the Information Age, 2000-2500 (1997), Jimmy Page: Magus, Musician, Man (2007), Arcadia Borealis: Childhood and Youth In Northern Ontario (2008), Out of Our Heads: Rock ‘n’ Roll Before the Drugs Wore Off (2010), Led Zeppelin FAQ (2011), Dumbing Down Dissent: Fads and Fallacies in Political Discourse (2011), Calling Dr. Strangelove: The Anatomy and Influence of the Kubrick Masterpiece (2014), Here’s To My Sweet Satan: How the Occult Haunted Music, Movies and Pop Culture, 1966-1980 (2016), and Takin’ Care of Business: A History of Working People’s Rock ‘n’ Roll (2021).
DR. AARON ADAIR — Aaron Adair is a scientist trained in physics and education theory and a scholar in history, ancient science, and religion. He has worked at various colleges and K-12 schools, done research at CERN and the SETI Institute, and has publications cited and discussed by scholars around the world.
PARALLAX MAGAZINE — Parallax is a European online media platform offering constructive and fresh perspectives for the post-postmodern age. We publish essays, podcasts, webinars, and lectures and are a hub for original and heterodox thinking.
CADELL LAST — anthropologist (M.Sc.) and philosopher (Ph.D.) with an interest in biocultural evolution, mind-matter relations, and speculative futures.
DAVID GRAEBER — We believe that a different social narrative has emerged, unleashing the political imaginary and reshaping public common sense. It is leading many people throughout the world to challenge the status quo through concrete actions, projects, or structures that are making our societies socially and ecologically just and sustainable.
RICHARD CARRIER — Richard Carrier is a world-renowned author and speaker. As a professional historian, published philosopher, and prominent defender of the American freethought movement, Dr. Carrier has appeared across the U.S., Canada, and the U.K., and on American television and London radio, defending sound historical methods and the ethical worldview of secular naturalism.
RATIONALLY SPEAKING | RATIONALLY SPEAKING PODCAST | Scientia Salon | a webzine about philosophy and science
PHILOSOPHIZE THIS — with Steven West
DR. PETER KREEFT PH.D. — Peter Kreeft, Ph.D., is a professor of philosophy at Boston College.
ROBIN FAITH WALSH — Robyn Faith Walsh is an Associate Professor at the University of Miami (UM). She earned her Ph.D. at Brown University in Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean, focusing on early Christianity, ancient Judaism, and Roman archaeology.
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF — Named one of MIT's “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT, " Douglas Rushkoff is an author and documentarian studying human autonomy in a digital age. His twenty books include the just-published Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, as well as the recent Team Human, based on his podcast, and the bestsellers Present Shock, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, Program or Be Programmed, Life Inc, and Media Virus. He also made the PBS Frontline documentaries Generation Like, The Persuaders, and Merchants of Cool. His book Coercion won the Marshall McLuhan Award, and the Media Ecology Association honored him with the first Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity.
DENNIS R. MACDONALD — Dennis R. MacDonald received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1978. He taught New Testament and Christian Origins at Goshen College, the Iliff School of Theology, and the Claremont School of Theology.
COV&R — COV&R is a dynamic, international association of scholars and practitioners from many disciplines who are dedicated to developing, critiquing, and applying René Girard’s mimetic theory. Colloquium members are energized by the potential for renewal in the social sciences and humanities that mimetic theory makes possible. As scholars and practitioners have applied Girard’s insights about the connection between imitation and violence to religious studies, biblical hermeneutics, philosophy, literature, film studies, sociology and anthropology, economics, psychology, and political science, exciting discoveries, and research avenues have become available.
THE BART EHRMAN BLOG — The history and literature of early Christianity.
COGNITIVE EDGE — We celebrate and liberate human potential and embrace the importance of being human in uncertainty. It’s in this potential where the true power of sustainable success lies. It just makes sense, doesn’t it?
THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT LOGICAL FALLACIES
ALEX KASCHUTA — Alex is a writer, cultural critic, and podcast host from Romania.
MICHELLE NICKERSON — Michelle Nickerson is an Associate Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago. She teaches courses on the history of women and gender, U.S. politics, social movements, cities and suburbs, and American religion.
HOW TO BE A STOIC — an evolving guide to practical Stoicism for the 21st century by Massimo Pigliucci
SPENCER KLAVAN, The Young Heretics — With a PhD in Classics, Spencer Klavan is the assistant editor of The Claremont Review of Books and The American Mind at the Claremont Institute.
STANFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA of PHILOSOPHY
ICBS Everywhere — Knowledge, science, reason, education, philosophy, behavior, politics, religion, and B.S.
CRITICAL THINKING ACADEMY — resources that can help people think critically about important issues.
REASON AND MEANING —The meaning of life: Philosophy, evolution, death and transhumanism
ROBERT JENSEN — Journalism
MARY HARRINGTON — political and cultural side-effects of globalization, the replacement of class politics by identity politics, the joy of limits, and women’s rights in the biotech age, which is the subject of my forthcoming book Feminism Against Progress.
QUILLETTE — is a platform for free thought.
EDGE — To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves.
OPEN YALE COURSES — PLSC 114: INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY Professor Steven B. Smith
DALE TUGGY — philosophy of religion
REASONABLE DOUBTS — your skeptical guide to religion
HOWARD BLOOM — the philosopher at the end of the universe
STEPHEN BACHELOR — Buddhism scholar and teacher from a secular perspective
ROBERT N. McCauley — Robert McCauley is a professor of philosophy, psychology, religion, and anthropology who is a pioneer in the cognitive science of religion. In his view, our minds are better suited to religious belief than to scientific inquiry because the explanations that religion provides make intuitive sense to us and engage our natural cognitive systems. At the same time, science involves abstract thinking and forms of reflection that require a lot of mental work. He is currently examining the relationship between the cognitive and cultural foundations of religion and science.
ROBERT M. PRICE — theology with a twist and without the spin
THE CHRISTIAN DELUSION — Hector Avalos, Ph.D., Edward Babinski, Dan Barker, Richard Carrier, Ph.D., David Eller, Ph.D., John W. Loftus, M.A., M.Div., Th.M., Jason Long Ph.D., Robert Price, Ph.D., Valerie Tarico, Ph.D., Paul Tobin
SLATE STAR CODEX — DISPATCHES FROM WEIRD PLATONIC SPHERICAL COW PERFECT RATIONALITY OUTSIDE VIEW WORLD
EPICURUS — epicurean philosophy
PHILOSOPHIZE THIS! — Stephen West
NOTHINGNESS .org
A.C. GRAYLING — when Socrates said, "The unconsidered life is not worth living."
PROSPECT — "The Leading Magazine of Ideas"
BRAIN PICKINGS — (one of my personal favorites)
THE SCHOOL OF LIFE — Emotional intelligence through the help of culture.
MARKET MEDITATIONS — Charles Chu's Blog (great ideas)
SINGULARITY HUB — We help leaders adapt to a world of accelerating change and empower them to leverage tech to improve the lives of one billion people over the next five years.
Established in 2006 by Wendy and Eric Schmidt, The Schmidt Family Foundation (TSFF) works to advance the wiser use of energy and natural resources and to support efforts worldwide that empower communities to build resilient systems for food, water, and human resources. Through community-, market- and technology-based approaches, TSFF promotes an intelligent relationship between human activity and the planet’s natural resources. TSFF pursues its mission through three innovative and thoughtful strategies: 1) The 11th Hour Project, 2) the Mission Investment Program, and 3) Schmidt Marine Technology Partners(SMTP).
Philosophy, Free Thought, Ideas & Critical Thinking, Heterodox Perspectives, Religion, History
BARKING UP THE RIGHT TREE — Great advice, don’t miss it.
LESSWRONG — LessWrong is an online forum and community dedicated to improving human reasoning and decision-making. We seek to hold true beliefs and effectively accomplish our goals. We aim to be less wrong about the world each day than the day before.
DONALD J. ROBERTSON — Author of Stoicism and the Art of Happiness, How to Think Like a Roman Emperor, and Verissimus: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius.
QUINN SLOBODIAN — Quinn Slobodian is professor of international history at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University.
He is the author or editor of seven books including, most recently, Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World without Democracy. Forthcoming is Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ and the Capitalism of the Far Right.
JUSTIN SLEDGE — Dr. Sledge’s work engages with Religious Studies, specifically in the so-called “Western Esoteric Tradition” or Hermetic Tradition in religious and philosophical thought. In this line of research, he seeks to grasp the philosophical commitments that underpin the alleged workings of magic, esoteric influence, spirit possession, alchemy, etc. This field of inquiry brings him primarily into contact with philosophers and intellectuals regrettably disregarded by the modern philosophic canon.
GREG GRANDIN — He is the author of seven books, including The Blood of Guatemala, which won the Latin American Studies Association’s Bryce Wood Award for best book published on Latin America in any discipline, The Last Colonial Massacre, Empire’s Workshop, Fordlandia, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Award, The Empire of Necessity, which won the Bancroft and Beveridge awards in American history, Kissinger’s Shadow, and The End of the Myth, which won the Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction and was a finalist in the history category.
ANTHONY LOEWENSTEIN — independent, freelance, investigative journalist, best-selling author, and filmmaker. He’s the co-founder of Declassified Australia.
He’s worked in dozens of countries around the world and was based in South Sudan in 2015 and East Jerusalem between 2016 and 2020.
PAUL KINGSNORTH — In 2021, I began a new writing project, The Abbey of Misrule, a series of ongoing essays about the unfurling madness of the times.
SKEPTICAL SCIENCE — The primary theme is skepticism and science.
BUDDHA AT THE GAS PUMP — Ordinary people everywhere are undergoing a shift to a more awakened state of consciousness, thus transforming their understanding of themselves and the world. For some, the shift has been abrupt and dramatic. For others, it has been a very gradual process of awakening. Awakening is an ongoing process, and as such, we are not necessarily claiming to interview fully enlightened individuals. But rather, for the most part, ordinary people who are experiencing a shift in consciousness.
JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER — John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review and professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. He has written widely on political economy and has established a reputation as a major environmental sociologist. He is the author of Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature (2000), The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences (with Fred Magdoff, 2009), The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth (with Brett Clark and Richard York, 2010), and The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism: An Elaboration of Marxian Political Economy (New Edition, 2014), among many others.
JENNIFER BIRD, PH.D. — My work invites others to think honestly about the Christian Bible's role in our world. I encourage people to think for themselves about what is and is not in there!
HETERODOX ACADEMY — To improve the quality of research and education in universities by increasing open inquiry, viewpoint diversity, and constructive disagreement.
CONVERSATION INTERNATIONAL — Nature is Speaking
DAVID DISALVO — author of "Brain Changer"
THE LEAP — Building a world based on caring for the earth and each other.
PAUL BECKWITH — Abrupt Climate Change from the Arctic to the Antarctic: Facts, Opinions, and Analysis
DR. WOLFGANG STREECK — Emeritus Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies. Areas of interest: political economy of modern capitalism; institutional change; labor markets and labor relations.
350.org — We believe in a safe climate and a better future—a just, prosperous, and equitable world built with the power of ordinary people. Help us get there!
STOCKHOLM RESILIENCE CENTRE — Stockholm Resilience Centre is a collaboration between Stockholm University and the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
RELIGIOUS NATURALISM — Ursula Goodenough is one of the best-known voices in the religious naturalist orientation. She is the author of the book, “The Sacred Depths of Nature” which examines cosmology, evolution, and cell biology, celebrates the mystery and wonder of being alive, and suggests that this orientation might serve as the basis for “planetary ethic” that draws from both science and religion.
TOM HOLLAND — author of Rubicon: The Triumph and the Tragedy of the Roman Republic, which won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize; Persian Fire, his history of the Graeco-Persian wars, won the Anglo-Hellenic League’s Runciman Award in
OUR POWER CAMPAIGN — Communities united for a just transition.
ART DE VANY ONLINE — "The New Evolution Diet" (Perhaps minus the supplements.)
SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL — Global movement for Tribal People's Rights
MICHAEL POLLAN — Great stuff on nature, food, and the mistakes of modern life.
BBC Radio 4 — INSIDE HEALTH
Tim Ferriss — THE FOUR HOUR BODY
THE PROGRAM ON ENERGY AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT — Stanford University
THE BREAKTHROUGH INSTITUTE — is a pioneering research institute changing how people think about energy and the environment.
DAVID SLOAN WILSON ARCHIVE — Now, evolution is envisioned as any process that combines the three ingredients of variation, selection, and replication—including the fast-paced changes swirling around us (cultural evolution) and within us (our personal evolution). The evolution of goodness can be explained at face value. Human cultural evolution indubitably has an intentional component.
FOUND MY FITNESS — with Rhonda Patrick, Ph.D. (Aging & Health)
ART DE VANY LECTURE — (diet, fitness & health)
GUY MCPHERSON — Nature Bats Last (Abrupt Climate Change) Catastrophism.
Climate & Capitalism offers news, analysis, and commentary from an ecosocialist perspective. It features articles, book reviews, and interviews with leading ecosocialist thinkers.
International Viewpoint is an online magazine that publishes articles on a wide range of socialist and anti-capitalist topics, including ecosocialism.
REBEL is an Irish socialist website with a dedicated section on ecosocialism. It features articles and analysis of environmental issues from a socialist perspective.
Global Ecosocialist Network is a network of organizations and individuals promoting ecosocialist ideas and actions.
Clive L. Spash is an economist who writes, researches and teaches public policy, emphasizing economic and environmental interactions. His main interests are interdisciplinary research on human behavior and environmental values and transforming the world political economy into a more socially and environmentally just system.
Ecosocialism is a political ideology that combines ecological and socialist principles. It argues that the capitalist economic system, focusing on endless growth and profit maximization, is fundamentally incompatible with ecological sustainability and social justice. Ecosocialists advocate for a radical transformation of society, replacing capitalism with a system that prioritizes human well-being, ecological balance, and social equality.
"What is Ecosocialism?" by Socialist Resistance
"Ecosocialism: A Brief Description" by Mike Shaughnessy
"Ecosocialism: A vital synthesis" by Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal
System Change, Not Climate Change is a network of activists and organizations advocating systemic change to address the climate crisis.
Socialist Resistance is a British organization that promotes ecosocialist ideas and campaigns for a just and sustainable society.
Capitalism Nature Socialism is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes research on the intersection of capitalism, nature, and socialism.