Equality: A Beneficial Alternative to Collapse
What future shall we choose? Equality or inequality? Deep democracy or more limited forms? Sustainability and wise stewardship of resources, or exploitation for profit?
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The Changing Narrative – A New Ontology for the Progressive Movement?
An ontology is basically a set of principles or assumption about how the world works; about the fundamental ‘nature of reality’.
Making Massive Small Change: Excerpt
The Massive Small compendium is a sourcebook of ideas, tools and tactics to help build viable urban neighbourhoods. It is a bold and ambitious project aimed at ‘changing hearts and minds’,
Pacific Climate Warriors
The emergence of the “Pacific Climate Warriors” marks a huge shift in the role of the Pacific in the global story of climate change – moving from passive victims to active leaders.
Catalonia, Spain: Building a Powerful Regional Network for Energy Sovereignty
Xarxa per la sobirania energètica (Xse) Catalonia brings like-minded groups together to fight for change in the energy sector locally, and collaborates with similar initiatives elsewhere in Spain, Europe and Latin America.
This Currency is Designed to Benefit the Local Community
The Brixton Pound (B£) was launched in 2009 by Transition Town Brixton to support local businesses with a local currency that would “stick to Brixton.”
Weaving the Path to Planetary Health
It is essential that as many local/regional “hubs” as possible be set up for regeneration of ecosystem functions that address the most critical planetary boundaries… namely geochemical cycles of nitrogen/phosphorous, land-use practices, and climate change.
Cooperation Jackson
But its that type of intended, broad, people’s participation and engagement – which is critical to making an assembly and is also critical towards reaching and politicizing people to be agents of their own self-transformation, which is what we are aiming for.
How Does Change Happen? One Man’s Journey through the Personal and the Political
I realize now that the path to social transformation is not a binary choice between personal or political change. We must live our political values within the daily routines of our personal lives and grow a new kind of politics that’s grounded in a higher quality of human relationships—unafraid of asking much more of us than our votes.
10 Stories of Transition in the US: Building Community with Transition Streets
In response to this need for clear and accessible ways to build resilience in the face of uncertainty and mounting social and environmental challenges, Transition Streets is helping to bring neighbors together to build community and take action right where they live.
Re-engaging Imagination
If we’re making political decisions around how we want to exist in the world, then we need to think about the impossible. And to think about the impossible we need to connect to this place that does not exist within your current state of mind. This is why play should be a political – to open us up to unknowability.
The Promise of Worker-Run Farming
The success of any worker-run farms will spread because it’s easier to be a cooperative entity in places where there are a lot of other cooperative entities
