Why Sociocracy Helps Organizations to Thrive
The serenity, inclusivity, and gratification experienced within sociocracy has to be encountered first-hand to be fully appreciated.
Is Degrowth an Academic Field or a Mass Movement? Taking Degrowth to the People!
Degrowth, I believe, is at a critical cross road – advocates must now choose to continue to regard degrowth as an unending thought experiment, or to take degrowth into communities of ordinary folks.
How a Neighborhood Co-op Started by Teens Helped Communities Around the U.S. Adopt Solar Power
The nonprofit Solar United Neighbors (SUN) is one group working to help communities move away from fossil fuels toward solar power.
What Liberal Elites Don’t Know About Rural Americans Can Hurt Us
The truth is that when this nation chose to eliminate four million farmers (with their families, hired help, buildings, and boundaries) on the advice of the colleges of agriculture, the agricultural bureaucracy, and the agribusiness corporations, it committed a sort of cultural genocide.
Remembering peasants, anticipating peasants
The land wisdom of peasants and indigenous people is ultimately the land wisdom we moderns have to learn, not by some magic process of technology transfer but by long cultural development, starting now.
Making way for Justice in each community – Transition Alive 1
What is clear to me is that to be ‘just’ we need to be acting alongside people and with awareness of our connection to all others, human and otherwise. Justice is lost when we lose sight of the bigger picture.
You are Formally Invited to a Livable Future (Empty chairs will be noted.)
While Mayor Bowser, like so many officials, declines her constituency’s invitation to become a part of building a livable future, the growing movement behind this vision will fight on, with or without her.
A world in crisis requires we recover the common good beginning in the places where we live
A political strategy that builds a future based on the common good beginning in the places where we live can meet this need, and potentially help avert worst case scenarios.
Pella Thiel: “Criminalizing Ecocide: The Rights of Nature”
On this episode, Nate is joined by maverick ecologist Pella Thiel to discuss the legal frameworks behind the Ecocide and Rights of Nature Movements. Our current economic and legal systems have no mechanisms to consider nature in our decision making – much less to make systemic planetary stability a priority.
Sustainable Food Systems | Feeding Ourselves Across Europe
Local communities in rural and urban areas are leading on the transformation of local and regional food systems, even when policies and politics at national and EU levels fall way short.
Looking for hope
We need to believe in people if we, the people, are to have any hope for ourselves and for humanity.
Summoned by the Earth: Excerpt
Our identification with a separate sense of self will no longer be the organizing principle for life on Earth. Our evolution as a species and as a planetary culture depends not only on our realization of this, but our embodiment of it. Living our lives in a profoundly transformed way and connecting our communities in service to Mother Earth is where hope can be found.
