Team Human: The Book

Taking back reality with the original digits: the fingers on our own two hands

Towns and cities are human places; nations are just ideas

Free-market fanatics, racist bullies, and techno-elites all see nature as a cruel competition

Learn how to listen, and how to represent

Solidarity begins with place

We don’t yet have a great way to talk about a new spirit of collectivism

The myth of individuality made capitalism possible and has sustained it to this day

Success in the future depends on bringing forward the values of previous ages

How we can trade a mere digital revolution for a truly dimensional shift

By pitting science against nature and human experience, we rob it of its moral power

Meaningful discoveries happen from the bottom up

Like the builders of doomed Fukushima, we envision the future without respecting the past

Permaculture embraces the complexity of both

From Pharaoh to Big Agra, it’s always been about monopolizing the harvest

We cannot dominate nature for much longer, but neither can we retreat from civilization

The logic of productivity or capitalism is not enough

Human beings are not the problem; we are the solution

How Russians, robots, and dolphins spawned a movement at Esalen

How the counterculture surrendered communal well-being to individual enlightenment

On encountering the destructiveness of European colonialists, Native Americans concluded that the invaders must have a disease

We drive forward with our eyes on the horizon, ignoring the devastation we create in our wake

There’s a difference between awe and excitement. These days, we mostly get the latter.

Social stigmas are used to keep us from finding our collective power

How anomalous behavior defeats the systems of social control