Urban Farms, Community Gardens and Local Produce at Your Doorstep
So I’m setting off on a quest to find fresh and affordable food here in Vancouver and documenting my findings in a four-part series.
Act: Inspiration featured
‘A flame was lit in our hearts’ — How Ukrainians are building online networks for resistance and mutual aid
After witnessing how powerful Ukrainian civilians can be in the face of adversity, people can be hopeful that what kept them together in times of war will work in times of peace.
Can Transformative Change Come to America?
Perhaps sooner than most think, major legislative action regulating greenhouse gas emissions will finally be possible. But that moment will not arrive without deep struggle, organizing, and collective persistence.
Timothée Parrique: “Degrowth: Slow is the New Cool”
What is degrowth, and how will it help define our future?
Parrique explains how the path to societal degrowth might unfold and the social and physical obstacles we may encounter on our way there.
Rural Europe Takes Action | Creating Alternatives, Creating Community
Cargonomia officially was launched in 2015. It came out of the idea: how can we connect the farm, bike messengers and a bike workshop?
Protect This Place: Italy’s World Heritage Beech Forests
Stories about these forests and villages can help connect people to these old-growth systems and their irreplaceable worth and inspire people to continue to work to protect them.
Top Economists Hail Chilean Constitution as ‘New Global Standard’ on Climate, Inequality
A group of world-renowned economists and social scientists published an open letter Wednesday hailing Chile’s draft constitution as a transformative document…
Essential services
Why can’t we quit fossil fuels tomorrow, and what implications does that have for our way of life given that we are already in a climate emergency?
Our imaginations can help create new climate possibilities
Though fictional, the book raises a very real question: Can the human capacity to imagine alternate climate futures actually help generate new, more hopeful realities?
A Better Brand of Pessimism
Yes, our society is better off with the IRA having passed than we would be without its passage. But if we don’t find a way to snuff out fossil fuels, directly, on a crash schedule, the climate emergency will only intensify.
Be (grateful) here now: Deep Adaptation Gratitude Month
“Gratitude is liberating. It is subversive. It helps us to realize that we are sufficient, and that realization frees us.”-Joanna Macy
Democracy Rising 24: Scaling Deliberation—Austrian Citizens’ Councils
Citizens’ Councils can also be part of a broader range of processes used within a given region to support a larger “deliberative system.”
