A dazzlingly precious gift from the future
The Vauban, a district of Freiburg which is home to about 3000 people, is one of the most ambitious and best-known car-free neighbourhoods in Europe.
Act: Inspiration featured
Green Road of Ecovillages, Six Months into War
The project showed its resilience in conditions of the hard war times and will be able to share this knowledge after the victory.
Land Change, Failures of Omission, and the Renaturing of Climate
Land change is a scientific term you’re not likely to hear in mainstream climate conversation, which is a shame, because what it refers to, the climatic effects of human damage to living landscapes, is a big part of the climate crisis.
The Politics of Overconsumption and Getting the Scale Right
No matter how difficult the transition may be, in the not too distant future we will have to live in far smaller and more flexible social organizations than today’s nation-states and cities.
The Year in Which I Grow Our Food Pt. 1
Can I convince you how miraculously cool seeds are? They are a tiny packet of genetic information, for nothing more than some warmth, light (usually), and some water, will unfurl in time and produce a plant that will net you so much food in volume, that your return on investment would be astronomical.
No need to reinvent the wheel: The settlement house as a time-tested model for community resilience
Communities can build resilience to climate change within the heart of their neighborhoods through incorporating the settlement house model within climate action plans.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 86 Kinari Webb
Kinari Webb, MD, is the founder of Health In Harmony, an international nonprofit dedicated to reversing global heating, understanding that rainforests are essential for the survival of humanity, and a cofounder of Alam Sehat Lestari (ASRI). She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
The rights of nature movement cannot be stopped
From the Navajo Nation to a small town in Pennsylvania to Ecuador, then across the world, the idea of enshrining the rights of nature is only growing.
Rural Europe Takes Action | The Sámi Environmental Programme
I am proud of the Sámi parliament for creating the Environmental Programme – called Eallinbiras in Sámi. It is more of a life programme. We are trying to convey the Sámi culture to inspire others to have a more sustainable view on life.
How to escape the slow cancellation of the future
We have to dare to dream. To conceive and build different futures is central to being human. We cannot let the real ‘cancel culture’ steal our future.
Winter Fluff
Perhaps many of you are already floundering around trying to figure out how to keep the house warm despite unaffordable fuel costs. So I thought I might share my down home ways…
A Review of ‘The Age of Low Tech’ by Philippe Bihouix
The Age Low Tech is a funny, informal, practical, angry, and subtly deep book. Released in 2014, its discussion of energy crisis and supply chain fragility feel prescient to 2022.
