Is the Great Transition a postcapitalist project? Yes: its core values and aims—human solidarity, quality of life, ecological resilience—contradict the individualism, consumerism, and abuse of nature fostered by societies that grant primacy to the profit motive. But postcapitalism is mere negation. Can what-we-are-for be boiled down to a single, alternative “ism”? Not easily, since a systemic transition must weave a whole cloth from myriad cultural and ideological threads.

In "Why Ecosocialism: For a Red-Green Future,” Michael Löwy explores the twining of two cardinal “isms”—socialism and environmentalism. While they have often been at odds in the past, now, Löwy argues, environmentalists need to be socialists, and socialists need to be environmentalists.

Löwy gives us much to ponder and act on. Still, it’s fair to ask: Does “ecosocialism” provide the best formulation for our times? A wide-ranging, esteemed group of commenters debates the question in our Roundtable: “Do Red and Green Mix?”

Wendell Berry has long been the poet laureate of community and the land. In “For Love of Place: Reflections of an Agrarian Sage," he reflects on the evolution of his thinking and life choices, and what now needs doing.

Carry it on,