Earth Day
Perhaps it isn’t enough to celebrate Earth Day once a year. Maybe we need to be thinking every day about what we need to do, where we go from here, and how we to face our future.
Act: Inspiration featured
Axial Shift: The Decline of Trump, the Rise of the Greens, and the New Coordinates of Societal Change
These three axial shifts, political, economic, and educational, are replacing the traditional 20th-century public discourse with a new axis of conversation and thought that supports a new avenue for societal renewal.
Sharon Adetoro: How to Make the Movement More Inclusive? Do the Work!
The Environmental movement is heavily white and middle class. Both of which we are not. There is an uncomfortableness about entering that space.
How Libraries of Things Build Resilience, Fight Climate Change, and Bring Communities Together
Libraries of Things are both starting to expand to multiple locations, and also connecting with other similar or complementary organizations to form local and regional networks.
Energy Equity: Bringing Solar Power to Low-Income Communities
Community or shared solar is broadly defined as a project where multiple participants own or lease shares in a mid-sized solar facility usually between 500 kilowatts and 5 megawatts, and receive credits that lower their monthly utility bills based on how much power the facility delivers to the grid.
A New Chance for Climate Justice?
To truly step up to the plate and play their part in a resurgent, ecologically-minded global justice movement, groups in the North will have to put meat on the bones of the system change slogan by articulating clear alternatives.
Why Don’t You Have an Electric Bike Already?
If you’re already making most of your daily trips by bike or on foot, you don’t need to read further. An electric bike is unlikely to improve your life. For everyone else, read on!
Our Actions Create the Future: A Response to Jem Bendell
I believe that hope has a crucial role in healing, and in driving our engagement in effecting the deep transformation we need.
Transition Streets Gets an Update!
This 2019 revision of the Transition Streets handbook not only captures what’s new, it includes additional information to consider in how we think about the lives we lead and the changes we want to make.Â
What is a Permaculture Convergence?
A conference, convention, gathering of grand wizards. Just some of the things I’ve heard a convergence mistakenly called over the years. If you’ve never been to one then you’re missing out – but missing out on what!? What is a convergence?
New Money Meets the Cost of Change: How Local Currencies Save Economies and Communities, and Help them Flourish
Of course the economic crisis was fundamental to the evolution of alternative economics in Greece. Although some thinkers have long advocated other ways of using and running currencies, most barter systems arise in times of upheaval where trust in the banks is eroded or they withdraw liquidity.
The Path To Liberating Humanity Is The Same As The Path To Liberating The Individual
The path to enlightenment is the process of becoming clearly aware of all the different aspects of the way you operate inside, which enables you to relate to life as it’s actually appearing
