Today’s challenges can ignite a bold new era of progress. Throughout human history, we can see recurring cycles of crisis and collapse but also, critically, resilience and renewal. Today, when we face environmental degradation, climate change, social fragmentation, and existential risk, it is important to remember that our ancestors have weathered dark times before, and […]
Sutera, a village in Sicily, has since 2014 increased its mostly elderly population of a few hundred inhabitants with dozens of refugees. The town in the 1970s had over 5,000 people, but most had left to seek better job opportunities in larger cities. By 2012, this out-migration caused homes to be abandoned and shops to […]