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In an age of an ecological crisis, we must transform culture’s relationship to Nature. We strive to capture attention, relevance and capital from the cultural sector and steer these resources towards protecting the natural world.

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The meaning of OVERSTORY is the layer of foliage in a forest canopy.

2024年10月17日 · With Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering, he revisits the conclusions of that work, expanding and adapting them to current trends and mindsets.

2024年10月1日 · A classic work of Gladwellian pop-nonfiction. As such, it rightfully deserves 5-stars and a wide readership. The book investigates extraordinarily prescient issues in contemporary society, all bundled under the themes of overstories, social engineering, and superspreaders.

2018年4月3日 · In The Overstory, Powers twits those critics by presenting — with his usual scientific brio — trees that live, breathe, and signal to each other, exist in a “social” relation with other trees and the biosphere that depends on them.

2024年10月1日 · In this provocative new work, Malcolm Gladwell returns for the first time in twenty-five years to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points, this time with the aim of explaining the dark side of contagious phenomena. Through a series of riveting stories, Gladwell traces the rise of a new and troubling form of social engineering.

2021年2月17日 · Netflix’s The Overstory is based on the Pulitzer-winning novel by author Richard Powers, published in 2018. The novel is about five trees whose unique life experiences with nine very different people bring them together to address the destruction of forests.