Bill McKibben — Embracing Our Emergency
Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org and Third Act, speaking at the Embracing Our Emergency webinar on 22 May 2024. Free.
Courses & Seminars
Ecology & the Polycrisis
Subject grouping in the Essays & Articles archive.
Courses & Seminars
Nate Hagens — Embracing Our Emergency
Nate Hagens, director of the Institute for the Study of Energy and Our Future and host of The Great Simplification, speaking at the Embracing Our Emergency webinar on 15 May 2024. Free.
Embracing Our Emergency
A ten-session course in regenerative leadership co-hosted with the film-maker Josh Fox, with Bill McKibben, Marianne Williamson, Michael E. Mann, Jamie Wheal, Margaret Klein Salamon and Thom Hartmann.
Jem Bendell — Breaking Together
Jem Bendell, author of Deep Adaptation and Breaking Together, presenting for Building Our Regenerative Future on 28 January 2024. Free.
Essay and Articles
Regenerative Revolution
Written for Purple’s Revolutions issue. Pinchbeck describes losing and regaining his conviction that collapse is avoidable, and argues that classical revolution is no longer the available form. Instead he proposes redirecting displaced labour toward regenerative work — wetland restoration, ocean aquaculture, retrofitting — funded by a basic income, alongside a shift from materialism to idealism. Draws on Buckminster Fuller and Oscar Wilde’s The Soul of Man Under Socialism.
Building Our Regenerative Future
More than twenty-five speakers across six modules on the path to a regenerative society — food, health, culture, community and the new professions that a planetary culture will require.
Reporting on Climate Change Is Harmful if You’re Not Offering Solutions
An interview in which Pinchbeck argues that relentlessly bleak climate journalism, including New York Magazine’s The Uninhabitable Earth and much of VICE’s reporting, serves corporate culture by breeding fatalism unless it is paired with solutions. He invokes Slavoj Zizek on mindfulness as the ideology of postmodern capitalism, faults Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now, and calls for full renewable energy within twenty years.
How Soon Is Now?
How Soon Is Now, published by Watkins Press, took ten years to write and carries introductions by Russell Brand and Sting. This 2019 post restates its thesis: initiation serves a neurological function tied to the prefrontal cortex, and its disappearance from modern Europe produced what Pinchbeck calls Kidults. The book addresses infrastructure, social systems, and consciousness.
Announcing My New Book, How Soon Is Now
Pinchbeck announces How Soon Is Now in 2016, framing ecological collapse as an initiation and an opportunity for a self-willed evolutionary leap. He argues that centralized institutions built in the 19th century cannot manage the crisis, and points readers toward a How Soon Is Now group on the HyLo network, a Salon interview with Carrie Sheffield, and his Burning Man writing for Artsy.
How Soon is Now : Initiation
Two claims drive this excerpt from How Soon Is Now: that social and technological development extends biological evolution, and that ecological catastrophe is a collective rite of passage. Pinchbeck draws on Robert Wright’s Non-Zero, Teilhard de Chardin’s Noosphere, Lynn Margulis on microbial cooperation, and Rupert Sheldrake’s Science Delusion to argue humanity is becoming a planetary super-organism.