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Composting Yesterday's World

Reflective and provocative texts by Alexander Crawford exploring what comes after business-as-usual — questioning old assumptions about sustainability, progress, and change to make room for new ways of seeing, being, and acting.

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  1. Issue · Sep 24, 2026

    The Four Mountains (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Positive tone

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    <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="773" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sYUG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5b17932b-38be-4e11-bed5-e82e8c0d6a7d_3401x1805.j

  2. Issue · Sep 10, 2026

    Towards an Inquiry Loom (opens the original)

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    <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="367" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1FTW!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8e34d23e-c93a-4528-ab9f-1310c23fd16d_768x367.jpeg"

  3. Issue · Sep 3, 2026

    A Citizens’ Assembly for Wicked Problems (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Positive tone

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    <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="250" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NX9q!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F812f7023-6195-4949-a91d-a74332ec4c7d_735x250.jpeg"

  4. Issue · Aug 27, 2026

    Leadership Development for Sustainability (opens the original)

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  5. Issue · Aug 20, 2026

    Seventy-One Weeks (opens the original)

    Excerpt · Critical tone

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    Seventy-one weeks ago, I published the first text on this Substack. It was called Sustainability: Why Have We Failed?I had spent more than twenty years working around sustainability, climate and systems change, and I had become increasingly dissatisfied with the usual explanations for our lack of progress. Better policy. Better science communication. More innovation. More money. More political will.I wanted to ask a harder question: what if failure was the most likely outcome all along?I offered

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