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Who Owns the Night? The Risks of Selling Sunlight After Dark

Can orbiting mirrors sell sunlight after dark? Investigating Reflect Orbital’s plans and the risks to wildlife, climate, astronomy and the night sky.

Give What You Command: Christianity and the Love that is Ordered

Christianity commands love, including love of enemies, and forgiveness without limit. Then it says none of this can be done by effort alone. From the Good Samaritan to a Charleston courtroom, an essay on a command that follows a gift

What Is Owed: Judaism, Islam and the Debt of Kindness

In 1943 a Muslim family in the Albanian mountains hid a Jewish family from the German army, and the whole neighbourhood knew. The code they kept took no interest in what they felt. Judaism and Islam build kindness the same way: as a debt, owed before it is felt, and tested at its edge.

Accra: The Metabolism of Health and Heat

To understand Accra’s ecological metabolism is to trace the flow of water, air, and humanity through a rapidly shifting coastal topography. Positioned on the Gulf of Guinea, Ghana’s capital is a delta city grappling with the intersecting forces of breakneck urbanisation, compound flooding, and a warming equatorial climate.

The Attention Trap: Social Media Addiction, Behavioural Design, and the Architecture of Digital Wellbeing

The digital landscape of the mid-2020s is defined not by the information it provides, but by the relentless competition for the human focus that...

Personal Rewilding: An Antidote to the Unquiet Cage

We are animals built for the wild, yet we live in a state of profound containment. The glow of the screen is our new sunrise....

The Continued Relevance of the United Nations

The UN remains vital: a universal forum enabling peace, aid, climate action and global rules, despite veto limits, funding gaps and needed reforms

Ecotourism: A Critical Assessment of Its Promise, Perils, and Pathways to Sustainability

Executive Summary Ecotourism has emerged as a dominant and rapidly growing segment of the global tourism industry, presented as a sustainable alternative to the often-destructive...

Transcending Humanity: An Exploration of Transhumanism’s Core Concepts and Implications

On a quiet morning in the not-so-distant future, a human being wakes to the soft hum of a neural implant seamlessly delivering the day’s...

Environmental Racism and the Struggle for Climate Justice

Way back in the early 90s when working with the Technology and Environmental Strategies Group at the University of Wollongong, I co-authored a...

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