The Homeless Garden Project Is Opening New Doors to Helping the Unhoused
This one-year program provides transitional employment, job training, and housing resources for people experiencing homelessness.
Peru’s ancient irrigation systems succeeded in turning deserts into farms because of the culture − without it, the systems failed
Archaeologists have an important role to play in building a climate-resilient future, but any meaningful progress would benefit from a historical approach that considers multiple ways of understanding the environment, of operating an irrigation canal and of organizing an agriculture-based economy.
Making local food production and land commons more viable with procurement hubs
So Stroud Land Commons are partnering with the Open Food Network (OFN) to try to create more markets for local food producers. OFN provide an online shopfront for small, local food producers all over the UK (and the world).
Appalachia, Country Music, and American Politics
We have much cause to worry but neither comfort nor clarity will come if we fixate on widening polarization, Constitutional crises, or warring cultures. Those maladies are symptoms of a more profound distress.
Six Reasons for Communitarian Living
Cobb Hill isn’t the only way to find these six things, thank goodness. You’ll find them in smaller groups and larger ones, in cities, in the tropics, on the coast. In this time of transition and reflection in my own family, I hope that knowing they exist in one place might make it easier for you to imagine (or create) them elsewhere, too.
The Psychological Effects of Climate Change: The Scientific Explanations — and Solutions That Can Empower Your Mind
Whether we’re talking about climate change, civil rights, politics, or anything else, you control the mediums you expose yourself to. Use your critical thinking, set limits and boundaries, resist the manipulation of media.
When Water Dries Up, Violence Thrives: The Link Between Climate, Conflict, and Migration in Africa
Security is not built with barbed wire, but with wells, seeds, and justice. As Wanjira Mathai, president of the Green Belt Movement, reminds us: “Every tree planted is an act of defiance against despair.”
Prospects for Degrowth 2025
These are difficult times indeed, with terrible news on many fronts. What are the prospects for the degrowth alternative as we move through 2025?
Reading (UK) – A Town in Transition, and Local Community Resilience
Transition needs local people to get involved, lots of us – we can all help to build the story of our future, then act together to make it real. We do this for ourselves, for our children, and for our children’s children, who will inherit our Earth.
Incoherency Is the Weakness in Trump’s Armor – Strike There!
The widespread impact of Trump’s incoherent and often conflicting policies is proving as harmful to much of his base as it is to the “opposition.” As unsettling as his policies are, they offer the climate communities an opportunity to take their message directly to Republican voters.
Ishmael: Chapter 4
One cannot consider it to be factual, in any way, that humans were made to rule the Earth. That’s a complete fabrication.
Net Zero and Other Delusions: What Can’t, Won’t and Might Happen
In this Frankly, Nate explores the limitations of using our imaginations to shape our understanding of what’s possible through the use of three categories: what can’t happen, what won’t happen, and what might happen.
