Light Posting from September 27th to October 15th
By Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
There will be light posting from September 27th through October 15th due to editorial holiday. In the meantime, why not sign up for our webinar, We Nee…
7 Paths to Development That Bring Neighborhoods Wealth, Not Gentrification
By Marjorie Kelly, YES! magazine
In cities across the nation, a few enjoy rising affluence while many struggle to get by.
Toward a generative economy
By Marjorie Kelly, Open Democracy
What kind of economy is consistent with living inside a living being? This question is being answered in experiments across the globe, from community forests in Mexico to "industrial symbiosis" in Denmark.
The economy: Under new ownership
By Marjorie Kelly, YES! magazine
Something is dying in our time. As the nation struggles to recover from unsustainable personal and national debt, stagnant wages, the damages wrought by climate change, and more, a whole way of life is drawing to a close. It began with railroads and steam engines at the dawn of the Industrial Age, and over two centuries has swelled into a corporation-dominated system marked today by vast wealth inequity and bloated carbon emissions. That economy is today proving fundamentally unsustainable. We’re hitting twin limits, ecological and financial. We’re experiencing both ecological and financial overshoot.
A different kind of ownership society
By Marjorie Kelly, Shanna Ratner, YES! magazine
Drive across southern Minnesota near the city of Luverne, and you’ll see clusters of wind turbines poking up through the cornfields. Climb into one of these sleek, gleaming, white towers, and you’ll find sophisticated computer controls monitoring dozens of factors every moment (wind speed, pressure on the blades, and so on). Yet the way the turbines are funded and owned is just as innovative as the technology that runs them.