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Theme

A fresh take on learning

Pathways

Study routes through Rad Schools

Each pathway is a curated sequence — films, writing, conversations — shaped by a person who has lived with the material.

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Watch

Five films to orient you

Short enough to watch in a break, good enough to come back to.

The quiet intelligence of forests

OPEN Channel

Seed keepers on the edge of a monoculture

Field Notes

Soil, in plain language

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Bioregionalism as a daily practice

Long Now

One farm, forty years

Field Notes

Resources

A small, opinionated library

Sources we return to when thinking about rad schools. Not exhaustive — each one earns its place.

About this theme

Why Rad Schools, and why now

Seeds is an invitation, not an argument. The climate conversation has been flattened into carbon math; the land conversation, into commodity prices. This theme exists because the people doing the most interesting work — rematriating seed libraries, rebuilding watersheds, holding space for slow food systems — rarely get to set the frame. Here they do. Expect pathways built by curators who have spent years in the work, not weeks on the reading list.