Good evening everyone! Welcome to tonight’s Long Now Talk featuring Abby Smith Rumsey on Hijacked Histories, Polarized Futures. As authoritarianism rises globally, the stories we tell about our history become battlegrounds for competing visions of the future. Historian Abby Smith Rumsey draws on 20th century Russian history to create a framework that situates current socio-political […]
Just as beavers build dams and termites construct mounds, humans manipulate our environments. The urge to reshape our environment is no transient social pressure. Instead, it’s a set of behaviors with deep evolutionary roots stretching back millions of years. Conservation Geneticist Andrew Tighe argues that controlling nature might be in itself part of our nature
We’re excited to share the Whole Earth Index, a new project from our friends at Gray Area and the Internet Archive that brings together more than 30 years of Whole Earth publications, freely available for your perusal. Read more from Gray Area Executive Director Barry Threw: When this happens, it’s usually because the owner only
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What can old trees tell us with our own relationship with time? Next Tuesday: Join us for an evening with geohumanist and historian Jared Farmer, who will share his multi-faceted approach to understanding our human relationship with trees over millennia. When this happens, it’s usually because the owner only shared it with a small group
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What can old trees tell us about our own relationship with time? Good evening everyone! Welcome to tonight’s Long Now Talk featuring Jared Farmer on Chronodiversity: Thinking about Time with Trees. The talk will be followed by a Q&A. Geohumanist and place-based historian Jared Farmer has studied trees in the context of human society for
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Maintenance matters. Here at The Long Now Foundation, we know that maintenance is about preserving possibilities for the future – something to celebrate, not to dread. Long Now’s mission is to foster long-term thinking and responsibility. That work means carefully maintaining the things that matter most. We’d be honored if you would consider making a
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Join us at 7:00 pm PT for Rick Prelinger’s LOST LANDSCAPES 02023 City and Bay in Motion: Transportation and Communication. Watch on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liHpw789GRs
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Happy 85th Birthday to Long Now Co-Founder and President Stewart Brand. Here’s to many more.
The Bureau of Linguistical Reality is a participatory artwork facilitated by artist Alicia Escott and Heidi Quante which collaborates with the public to create new words for feelings and experiences for which no words yet exist. Recognizing the climate crisis is causing new feelings and experiences that have yet to be named, the project was
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“What really interests me is how long-lived plants allow humans to think about—and emotionally relate to—long units of time. They provide a bridge between human time and geological time.” — Jared Farmer Join us for an evening with geohumanist and historian Jared Farmer, who will share his multi-faceted approach to understanding our human relationship with
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