Uncivilising the Table
This is a story about food and powerdown. It could seem like a personal story except that it is not: it is a social story about how everything changes when you break the illusions your civilisation is wrapped in.
The London Transition Gathering: 4 days of Transition delights
It was such a delight to connect with Transitioners old and new, from far and wide, and to visit projects on the ground.
Rural Realities | Testing Grounds for Wellbeing
The countryside is a nice place to live. Farmers are happy. That’s what we heard on the ground in the cooperative farms we visited in France in 2021 and 2022.
Crazy Town: Episode 74. Prepping for the Apocalypse: Elites’ Foolish Fantasies for Surviving a Collapse of Their Own Creation
Meet Barrett Moore, the bunker-building bullshit artist who helps capitalists survive the apocalypse with beans, bullets, and bravado. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.
Climate Change: Can Blue Cities Be Stopped by Red States?
There’s every reason to believe that the battles between red state (conservative) legislatures and blue (progressive) cities will increasingly find their way onto state and local ballots—changing the shape and complexity of future advocacy strategies.
Between a Yoga Mat and a Hard Place
While there are striking parallels between both countries, India appears to have ventured further down the road of far-right violence. Its experience could potentially offer Americans some valuable, if grim, lessons.
“Not growing but thriving”: The Beginning of a Paradigm Shift
Limits is a transformative word, because it tells us that somebody has drawn that economy in their mind and they have drawn it as part of the biosphere. That is the beginning of a paradigm shift.
Making Shift Happen: Momentum Grows for New Thinking About River Restoration
Process-based restoration is about restoring functions, and its scope expands beyond the channel to include the floodplain and valley bottom — the whole riverscape.
How to rapidly reduce fossil fuel use
Using rationing to reduce fossil fuel use—especially in the Global North—has already come close to political reality.
Reflections on ‘Beyond Growth’
In the context of this growing and relevant conversation, Nate unpacks what the degrowth movement is getting right, but also what is missing from the conversation.
‘Regenerative’ Agriculture is Disunifying, and that is Okay
It is time for “regenerative food systems” to radicalize or get out of the way, to step aside and allow human-scale, disruptive, actually diverse and localized collectives to emerge and feed the world, one community by one community at a time.
A Portable Hospitality
Hospitality isn’t charity. It is belonging. Only those who belong with soil, people, animals, plants and fungi are ever truly at home.
