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Permaculture
Permaculture is a creative design process based on whole-systems thinking informed by ethics and design principles that feature on this site. Permaculture is certainly going to play a major role in nature’s future. I love this way of thought because it has not only proven to be a successful principle…
Hope
There is hope, but hope is dwindling. My own hope for the future took a major hit after reading “Contribution of Antarctica to past and future sea-level rise” in one of my Environmental Science classes last year. The paper revealed that the inclusion of the melting of buttress ice shelves…
The Duke Edge
The new freshman class of 2069 had moved and the 2065 Duke school year is about to begin its Fall semester. The university was able to easily hit its goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2030 and actually achieved that goal in 2025. Under leadership of a collection of independent…
Fictional Negative Narratives Scare us towards Positive Futures
(image: Mad Max – drinking water) Fiction can positively or negatively shape our narratives of the design of nature’s future because fiction is able to make abstract, convoluted visions of the future into something, usually a story, that everyone can understand. Imagining a future earth that is radically different from…
Downtown vs. Forest
European colonialists initially were scared of and threatened by nature, but a love of nature arose once European settlers felt a distance from nature in their everyday lives. Do you feel more comfortable in the woods or downtown in a city? Why do you think that is so? Does your comfortability shape…