By Lornet Turnbull, YES! magazine
Over the past year, more than 20 food supply organizations have contributed in one form or another to providing hot meals to residents through the community center.
By Rich Wilson, Claire Mellier , New Internationalist
In case you’ve not come across citizens’ assemblies, they are gatherings of people (usually 100-150), selected to be a true snapshot of the place in question (say, a country or city) based on demographic criteria such as gender, age, income and education level.
By Lucia Monje-Jelfs, Sustainable Food Trust
The Sengwer have lived in the Embobut Forest for centuries, but they lost a vast proportion of their territories to British colonial administration in the early 1900s. Since, their land rights have been limited and precarious...
By Sergio Ruiz Cayuela, Uneven Earth
Autonomy refers to the capacity of a given system to self-manage. In other words, the more autonomy that a commons has, the less dependent it will be on external inputs.
By Rosemary Harrison, Resilience.org
It's just one point of view of one morning of one rebellion, it's just one drop in the narrative ocean, but my blood ran so cold when I saw the bill recently proposed to further strengthen the police and weaken the people during protests that I had to warm it up again somehow.
By Tom Whipple, Steve Andrews, The Energy Bulletin
The markets posted their worst week since mid-March amid concerns that rising global coronavirus cases slowed economic recovery.
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
Our systems do not meet our needs. None of them are designed to do so. It is time to make new systems.
By Vicki Robin, Trae Crowder, Resilience.org
Hailing from Celina Tennessee, Trae Crowder is a standup comedian, writer, and self-proclaimed “Liberal Redneck.” Trae addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” through his socially aware comedic view...
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
Acceleration is a common theme in contemporary culture and generally tinged with the connotation of "progress." But acceleration shows itself to be a two-edged sword when applied to the alarming trends in our climate.
By Randi Kaeufer, Medium.com
Because there is no other option and no better deal for the natural capital, soil, biodiversity and climate. Our task is to accelerate this transition and to avoid doing even more damage.
By John Michael Greer, Ecosophia
Once again, only a handful of people are warning that petroleum is a finite resource and that fracking was a temporary fix at best, and all right-thinking people dismiss them as cranks.
By Jonathan Morris, Waging Nonviolence
Last month, the University of Michigan became the latest to accept the obvious — that investing in the destruction of society is fundamentally counter to the mission of higher education.