The Great Entanglement: Navigating Humanity’s Polycrisis at the Dawn of the AI Age

The Age of Overwhelm The feeling is now familiar, a low-grade hum of anxiety that accompanies the morning scroll. A headline announces another record-shattering heatwave, the image of a cracked riverbed searing itself onto the mind. A swipe reveals a new regional conflict flaring, its geopolitical tremors felt thousands of miles away. Another swipe: a breathtaking breakthrough in artificial intelligence that promises to remake society, followed immediately by a stark report on rising global inequality. The screen glows with a...

Western European Wilderness Lost: Rewilding the Tamed Lands

1. Historical Baseline Pre-1750 Wilderness Extent The aurochs' last bellow echoed through Poland's Jaktorów Forest...

Shanghai, China: Sponge City on the Delta

GREEN CITIES SERIES  |  ARTICLE 12 Shanghai is sinking. The city centre has subsided more...

The Large Language Model Landscape of February 2026

The Permian competition tightens: pruning, agentic browsers, and the energy bill becomes law. February 2026 doesn’t feel like...

Deepak Chopra: The Transformation of Wellness

The work and insights of Deepak Chopra have influenced my life and work and I am grateful for his contribution to human evolutionary promise....

The Science and Soul of Meditation

A personal reflection on my meditation practice and experience in relation to the insights of neuroscience- no claim to expertise, as still struggling to...

The Architecture of Inner Peace: Building a Sustainable Meditation Practice

Introduction: The Radical Act of Stillness In an age defined by perpetual connectivity and information overload, the search for silence has become a radical act....

The Tender Gravity of Kindness: An Ancient Virtue and Its Modern Science

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, the poet Naomi Shihab Nye writes, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing....

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Milan, Italy: Can Trees Cool a Dense European City?

Green Cities Series | Article 17 For a decade, the Lombard capital has captured...

Cape Town and the Watershed of Resilience: A Metropolitan Study of Post-Drought Transformation

GREEN CITIES SERIES | ARTICLE 15 The atmospheric tension in Cape Town during the austral summer of 2017–2018 was characterized by a distinct psychological phenomena...

Why Mexico City is Sinking: The Environmental History of a Modern Water Crisis

Mexico City faces sinking and water crises due to drained lakes and urban growth. Explore the environmental challenges and solutions shaping its future

The Common Table in a Burning World: Why the United Nations Must Be Revived, Not Abandoned

The chamber still looks improbably calm. Green marble. Translation headsets. Country names set out in alphabetical order, as though the world’s grief can be...

Los Angeles: Reinventing the Concrete River

Explore Los Angeles' ambitious efforts to transform its concrete flood-control river back into a living ecological corridor amidst urban and climate challenges.

Shanghai, China: Sponge City on the Delta

GREEN CITIES SERIES  |  ARTICLE 12 Shanghai is sinking. The city centre has subsided more than three metres since the late nineteenth century, while the...

The Living Marsh: The World’s Remaining Wetlands and the Intelligence of Water

The Living Marsh Feature · The Living World The world’s remaining wetlands, the work they do for the planet, and the intelligence of water At first light,...

Modern Slavery in the Twenty-First Century

Is modern slavery surging, or just better counted? Inside the contested 49.6 million figure, forced-labour supply chains and the new trade crackdown.

Shenzhen, China: Electrifying the Megacity

GREEN CITIES SERIES  |  ARTICLE 10 In 2017, Shenzhen became the first city in the world to operate a fully electric public bus fleet. In...

World Environment Day 2026: Climate Action – Why It’s Still So Hard — and What Works

Clean energy is booming, yet emissions keep breaking records. A clear-eyed 2026 look at climate action—what's working, what's failing, and what it will take.

Barcelona Superblocks: The Radical Battle for Quiet, Green Cities

Inside Barcelona's radical push to reclaim streets from cars. How the superblock grid battles noise, heat, and tourism to recover Cerdà's vision.

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Singapore: Engineered Nature in a Tropical City-State

GREEN CITIES SERIES  |  ARTICLE 4 Singapore has spent sixty years turning...

Vienna – Green Social Housing as Climate Policy

GREEN CITIES SERIES  |  ARTICLE 3 For a century, Vienna has built...

The Sapphire Empire: A Chronicle of Britain’s Blue Belt and the Resurrection of the Wild

Introduction: The Map and the Territory The ocean is a memory. It remembers the iron taste of the harpoon and the heavy drag of the...

Western European Wilderness Lost: Rewilding the Tamed Lands

1. Historical Baseline Pre-1750 Wilderness Extent The aurochs' last bellow echoed through Poland's Jaktorów Forest in 1627, marking Europe's first recorded megafaunal extinction.¹ This wild...

Marine Wilderness: The Blue Heart of Earth

Marine wilderness is vanishing fast—climate, overfishing, pollution, and mining threaten ocean life. Indigenous wisdom and bold protection offer hope.

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The Tibetan Book of the Dead in the Age of AI Translation

The Tibetan Book of the Dead stands at a fascinating crossroads where ancient Buddhist wisdom meets cutting-edge artificial intelligence. While AI has not yet...

The State of Global Fish Populations: Crisis and Conservation in the World’s Waters

The Ocean's Vanishing Wealth The world's fish populations stand at a critical juncture, caught between ecological collapse and conservation hope. With 37.7% of assessed marine...

The Algorithmic Mirror: AI, Bias, and the Fight for a More Equitable Future

Introduction: The Coded Gaze and the Question of Equality The story of modern algorithmic bias often begins with a simple, personal failure of technology. Joy...

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Southeast Asia: Biodiversity Under Siege

Southeast Asia’s forests face collapse from deforestation, palm oil, and climate change—urgent action could still save this biodiversity hotspot.

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Women’s Wisdom on Environmental Philosophy

Women have played pivotal yet often underrecognized roles in shaping environmental philosophy from its inception through contemporary discourse. From Ellen Swallow Richards' pioneering work in human ecology in...

Blessings to All Beings: A Loving Kindness Meditation Practice

1. Preparation: Find a quiet space where you won't be disturbed. Sit comfortably on a cushion, chair, or floor with your spine straight. Close your eyes gently and take a few deep...

Epitaph for the Marl: The South-Western Barred Bandicoot

News in brief — October 2025 IUCN has listed the Marl / south-western barred bandicoot (Perameles myosuros) as Extinct (EX) in its latest global Red List update announced at the...