Community-Led Solutions in Housing Crisis
Eugene is charting a new path for community outreach, using its downtown areas as places to address housing challenges, head-on.
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4 Simple Guidelines from the Fibershed Clothing Guide
Inside our own closet is one place we may begin to make changes that will have lasting impacts on our biosphere, climate and personal health, and for this reason we created the Fibershed Clothing Guide to share a menu of actions and options.
Loving a Vanishing World
We can rejoin the web of life. We do not have to be its destroyer. But our last best chance is now, and countless tasks lie ahead of us.
How Could Citizens’ Assemblies be Used to Tackle Climate Change?
Not to be confused with people’s assemblies (a more informal gathering, often of existing activists) citizens’ assemblies are a way of exploring public views on a particular topic and coming up with concrete solutions.
Excerpt from The Patterning Instinct: Can We Transform Our Society for a Flourishing Future?
The easily identifiable forces propelling humanity on its current course are the special interests that gain financially and politically – at least, in the short-term – from continued economic growth and use of fossil fuels.
Climáximo: Climate Jobs Campaign
The goal of these jobs will not be [just] the jobs in themselves – or the wages, but rather what these jobs produce. So we decided to put up the idea of jobs where the main objective is to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
For the Love of Winning: An Open Letter to Extinction Rebellion
Would it be ridiculous to believe that not only the third runway will never get built but that one day our children will be able to hear a nightingale in Harmondsworth again because we had learnt to fall in love with the world, in love with life rather than money.
Understanding Where our Bread is Really Buttered
My overriding (and underlying) point is that Agriculture and Land Use (/abuse) are fundamental to everything else and they are not given a fraction of the attention they deserve
Something New to Preserve the Old in Charleston, SC
In a city like Charleston, with deep cultural roots and more historic buildings than you can count, the effects of development on neighborhood preservation and the growing impacts of climate change demand a new approach that can address both issues simultaneously.
A New, Collective Business Model for Traditional Crafts in Oaxaca
La Casa de las Artesanias is a cooperative in Oaxaca that aims to empower craftspeople and preserve the rich traditions of Mexican folk art.
“The Story of Soil Is the Story of All of Us”
For as long as humans have engaged in agriculture, and even before, we’ve relied on healthy soil and the organisms it supports.
Duck Hill, MS, is on the Rise
Flood mitigation is what you see on the surface in Duck Hill, but the tides of change in the community began well before the physical work, and are continuing to swell.
