Picturing a Way Forward
An interview with Kim Stanley Robinson: Climate change, science fiction, and our collective failure of imagination
Picturing a Way Forward
Anthropocene Stories
The Anthropocene: Paul Crutzen’s Epochal Legacy
The Anthropocene: Paul Crutzen’s Epochal Legacy
He came to science late in his life, helped to preserve the Earth’s protective ozone, and fundamentally changed our views of nature and ourselves
Are We Approaching Peak Stuff?
Are We Approaching Peak Stuff?
Almost imperceptibly, we are stepping off the consumption treadmill
How to Die in The Anthropocene
How to Die in The Anthropocene
Death is inevitable, but its
environmental toll may not have to be.
A View from Everywhere All the Time
A View from Everywhere All the Time
Tech companies are rapidly networking the environment in ways that will transform our perception of nature—just as social media reshaped our relationships with each other. What could possibly go wrong?
Blurring Life’s Boundaries
Blurring Life’s Boundaries
Darwinian theory is based on the idea that heredity flows vertically, parent to offspring, and that life’s history has branched like a tree. Now we know otherwise: that the ‘tree' of life isn’t that simple.
Cutting Loose the Climate Future from the Carbon Past
Cutting Loose the Climate Future from the Carbon Past
Geoengineering demands a new way of looking at the world—one that can be troubling.
Science Fiction in the Anthropocene
Science Fiction in the Anthropocene
The ultimate literature of the imagination calls upon us to do more than merely invent or imitate the apocalypse
The Circular Economy Made Real
The Circular Economy Made Real
In more and more pockets of the industrial landscape, the byproducts of one process are becoming the raw materials for another, trash is getting a useful second life, and waste is becoming a thing of the past.