The Big Here and the Long Now by Thomas Hylland Eriksen Holiday state agencies are partnering with

state agencies are partnering with disadvantaged communities to measure air quality

“I live for the dream that my children will be born free

and an alternative lifestyle that appeared wholesome to outsiders

a far cry from the mountain that raised her

with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks and the growing paunch

The Big Here and the Long Now by Thomas Hylland Eriksen Holiday state agencies are partnering withFor thousands of years, humanity's story was one of diversification. Across centuries and continents, our species proliferated new approaches to family and community life; to agriculture, economics, religion, artistic expression, and self understanding. Today, this process is in reverse. Culturally and ecologically, we are witnessing an almost universal drive towards homogeneity and the loss of diversity. The global forces of capitalism have created a