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We needed uncomfortable intellectuals. Instead, we got ad-engaged influencers

Solar sailing & the spirit of Walden: charging with the sun, thinking with Thoreau

Book launch dispatches: In praise of unrushed stories & Life-Changing Homes

Echoes across the water: the San Francisco Bay islands

Collapse and anti-collapse: quiet power of self-organizing to build things

Urban vs. suburban vs. countryside: family setups as kids grow older

The Asterix village in the dark: resilience in a blacked-out world

Portraits not taken: on Vargas Llosa, Pope Francis & Salgado’s gaze

When deserts were Edens: the lost children of the Green Sahara

Blackshirts and hats: the return of Agitprop in the age of memes

The last artisans: finding meaning in a throwaway world

1948 to 1984: an off-grid farm in the Hebrides & a book to read the future

Soufflé Society: online sentiment & the crumbling consensus

Manga to "Kei" minicars: Japan's cultural influence as the country's power wanes

Art of walking: a stroll in a warehouse & Bay Area’s “French village”

House in a hamlet: restoration, regeneration, and layers of a home

Visiting Lofoten’s WWII Museum: Echoes of Arctic War [video]

Free speech-palooza & kids' media access: when banalization gets pervasive

Picking one’s battles: choosing healthy introspection over doomscrolling

Formentera counterculture: pre-modern slow world on a tiny Mediterranean island

Bill Mollison & the Austral Summer: remediation in a disaster-prone world

Santa Ana Winds: a blaze through culture, memory, and resilience

Mike Oehler's last hurrah: underground living & lessons from the earth

The stuff around us: the hidden value & meaning of things old & new