AI is accelerating the extractive powers of capitalism—but the earthquake it’s setting off may crack open pathways toward a transformation that once seemed decades away.

AI and Ecocivilization are both deeply transformative to our world system: one is occurring now, the other is a vision and invitation. How do they relate?

June 2, 2026 | Join me with Morag Gamble for a special DTN live eventIn early 2022, I launched the Deep Transformation Network with the tagline: "A global community to explore pathways to an ecolog...

How movements working for a life-affirming future can learn from history — and from each other

The principles of an ecological civilization start from a recognition of the fact that, as humans, it's not just that we are alive; more deeply, we *are* life.

How can we be most effective in the immense task of civilizational transformation?

History offers a grim account of how structural change occurs. But concealed within that bleakness is a window of possibility that opens just when things fall apart.

The paradigm shift that may be the most urgent revolution of our time

The crisis of democratic legitimacy is a design problem—and better alternatives already exist

Most of the world’s wealth belongs to all of us. It’s time to start collecting.

Previous articles in this series have mapped the roots of our civilizational crisis — the consensus trance that keeps us from seeing the system clearly, the structural violence embedded in capitalism’...

Why we need to recognize we're in a collective march to destruction

A discovery by Europe’s ruling class — that desperation is more effective than force — has driven five centuries of enclosure, colonialism, and financialization. It still governs our world today.

A discovery by Europe’s ruling class — that desperation is more effective than force — has driven five centuries of enclosure, colonialism, and financialization. It still governs our world today.

This Resilience and Possibility in These Times conversation features author, speaker, and systems thinker Jeremy Lent.

Indigenous wisdom offers a diagnosis of what ails our world — and understanding it is the first step toward a cure.

Water, Water Everywhere… Until It’s Taken Overnight

President Donald Trump is directing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to “provide all necessary troops” to Portland, Oregon, a city he says is “war ravaged” and protect ICE facilities he claimed are “und...

David Venturella, a veteran of private prison firm Geo Group, joined the Trump administration to help oversee an expansion of the immigrant detention system that’s benefiting his former employer.

As Istanbul's mayor remains jailed, pressure mounts on opposition-aligned media to soften their criticism, analysts say.

A NEW direct-action group named after the Home Secretary has apparently emerged, as they have claimed to have targeted a transport firm which they…

Join me on Tuesday, June 3 as we unlearn education togetherIt's widely understood here in the DTN that the destructive tendencies of the modern world are inculcated in most of us throughout our for...

Developing a network of EV charging stations is key to modernizing U.S. transportation and staying competitive with the rest of the world.