By Helena Norberg-Hodge, Local Futures
I believe economic localization is the most strategic solution to addressing the woes of the disenfranchized. The localized path would involve a 180-degree turn-around in economic policy, so that business and finance become place-based and accountable to democratic processes.
By Daniel Christian Wahl, Medium.com
By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog
By Simon Evans, Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief runs through the 2018 BP Statistical Review of World Energy, which, for the first time, covers all sources of electricity and the key materials needed for electric vehicles.
By Patrick Noble, Feasta
Culture is what people do. It decays when people stop culturing. Changing a culture means changing what we do. Often, that will need a step by step transition as we negotiate obstacles.
By Piyali Banergee, Asian Correspondent
A recent review of Malaysia’s “stone, sand and gravel” exports to Singapore and Singapore’s purchases of those resources over two decades suggests that Mahathir’s sand ban, initiated to protect a fragile Malaysian environment, was seemingly ignored, including by his own government.
By Ingrid Elisabet Feeney, Climate Justice Project
The diverse founders of the First Ecosocialist International explicitly adopted a pluricosmovisionary perspective which establishes the conuco, or small farm, as the base unit for an emergent, future society founded upon the recovery of historical memory, territorial organization by bio-region, the rights of Mother Earth, the decolonization of the mind, and the reconfiguration of indigenous nations.
By Rowan Gard, The Conversation
It has become one of the fastest growing political campaigns in human history, surpassing similar battles against the tobacco industry and the fight against apartheid in South Africa. Its logic is simple: the only way to avoid climate change and dangerous levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is for most fossil fuel reserves to stay in the ground.
By Thomas H. Greco, Jr., Open Democracy
Whatever they are called—vouchers, scrip, credits, certificates or coupons—sound private and community currencies can be spent into circulation by any trusted producer or reseller who is ready, willing, and able to reciprocate by redeeming the equivalent amount as payment for real value.
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
To love the farming in a global economic context that writes its economic bottom line in diesel is not only a hard thing, but a conflicted thing. I can’t claim to have extracted myself from those dismal economics but my good fortune is that, on the ground and on the page, at least I’ve found some opportunities to try.
By Gurpreet Bola, STIR to Action
Progressives reference the ‘new economy’ in order to describe a system that is based on social and environmental justice. Yet type these words into any search engine and you’ll find that we don’t own it, neoliberals do.
By Jake Marble, Resilience.org
With over a decade-and-a-half of American schooling under my belt, I feel that I can assert with absolute certainty that there are some fundamental flaws in how we have chosen to structure education.
By Matt Weiser, Water Deeply
The Santa Cruz River was once the lifeblood of Tucson, Arizona. Due to heavy development and groundwater overdraft, it hasn’t seen year-round flow in 70 years. The city plans to revive the storied desert river with recycled effluent.
By Jenny Pickerell, Grassroots Economic Organizing
The buildings of eco-communities shape many communities’ functions. As Jan Martin Bang argues, “we are what we live in. When we plan our buildings, we are also planning what kind of society we want to create…we make the buildings and the buildings make us.”
By Sharon Kelly, DeSmog Blog
Under the updated SEC rules, which went into effect in 2009, drillers can count oil and gas from wells that won't be drilled or fracked for up to five years as part of their proved reserves. Those as-yet-untapped wells can be put on a company's books as a subset of their “proved” reserves, listed under the label “proved undeveloped” reserves.
By Rex Weyler, Greenpeace
We may benefit if we simultaneously hold two extremes of action; both the huge, universal movements for ecology and justice and the daily, personal actions that help slightly and make us better examples to others.
By Karen Lynn Allen, Musings blog
Health. Energy. Climate. Crime. Education. Happiness. Water. Housing. What if it were possible to make headway on all these issues with simple changes to our neighborhoods?
By Danielle Nierenberg, Island Press
In Nourished Planet, the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition offers a global plan for feeding ourselves sustainably. Drawing on the diverse experiences of renowned international experts, the book offers a truly planetary perspective.
Bullfrog Films
A QUEST FOR MEANING tells the story of Marc and Nathanaël, two childhood friends who take an impromptu road trip attempting to uncover the causes of our current global crisis and to discover a way to bring about change.
By Ted Trainer, Resilence.org
Thanks to Rob for his reply to my recent thoughts on the Transition Towns movement. Here are some brief notes in response.
By Aaron Vansintjan, Uneven Earth
Radical municipalism is the idea that we can build popular assemblies and neighborhood councils, where people learn to manage their common life through face-to-face politics and develop the skills and the power to seize control: to take the city.
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
A leaked U.N. climate change report warns that the Earth's climate could endanger economic growth in the decades ahead. I think the problem is the other way around.
By Thomas M. Hanna, Joe Guinan, Open Democracy
Both the Cleveland and Preston Models represent a reinvention of a longstanding political tradition that played a significant role in the development of mass socialist politics in Europe and North America.
By Oliver Sylvester-Bradley, Open Coop
Resonate is a music streaming co-op and a great example of a platform co-op which is changing the way business works. In the run up to the OPEN 2018 Platform Co-op conference we interviewed Peter Harris, Resonate Founder and CEO.
By Robert Raymond, Shareable
If people can create their own livelihood, I won't say business, because it's more than just business — but if we can create and control own livelihoods, it eliminates the long legacy of exploitation, of abuse, that people — particularly black people — have suffered in this community.