A Not So Small Ecocritique of the film “Downsizing” in Five Concepts
School Days in 2040: Beatriz’ Day at the Freire School of Activism
Erik explores an activist high school in São Paulo, Brazil, where students are activists first, students second.
Capital Questions
The University of the District of Columbia is leading the charge in transforming the food system in a city challenged with high levels of poverty, obesity, and population growth.
School Days in 2040: Arivan’s Day at the Garden City Eco-engineering Academy
Erik imagines an eco-engineering high school in Singapore that is training highly moral scientific leaders to guide investigation of the world’s most controversial environmental technologies.
School Days in 2040: Lakshmi’s Day at Bunker Hill High
Erik explores a high school in India specializing in training future social entrepreneurs, farmers, and even midwives.
School Days in 2040: Saikou’s Day aboard the Tigerfish Floating School
Erik describes a school of the future: one that provides a holistic as well as flood-proof education to its students
School Days in 2040: Rima’s Day at École Gardiens de la Forêt (Montreal, Canada)
What might education look like in 2040 if it were to be truly Earth-centric? That is to say, teaching a deep connection to—and obligation to care for—the planet that sustains us? Over the course of the summer, as I work on the upcoming State of the World 2017: EarthEd: Rethinking Education on a Changing Planet, I will post five visions…
Futureproofing America with a Yardfarming Revolution
Erik Assadourian, co-director of State of the World 2013 and creator of the reality TV show Yardfarmers sat down with Cullen Pope, editor of EATT Magazine, a few weeks back for an interview. We wanted to repost the interview here as Erik offers some insights into his strategy to get us to a more sustainable, more resilient future. Recently, we…
Escaping Fido’s Cave
How do we break the cycle of consumer socialization and perhaps even survive the coming climate crisis?
Learning from Icarus
A reflection on how making society more resilient may be worse than doing nothing at all.