Growing community in vacant Chicago lots
Community gardens like Harambee are becoming increasingly popular, with more than 29,000 garden plots in city parks in the 100 largest U.S. cities.
Act: Inspiration featured
A radical land occupation in Brazil shows how to reimagine our societies for the better
Resistance will always face repression if it is strong and poses a real challenge to the elites and the privileged. It will need resources and a community to survive and endure.
Business as Usual is a Failure for our Climate Emergency
Assemblies can be the way to break the business as usual logjam that is paralysing effective action. For that, they need to be given the time and range of expert input to be able to arrive at their own understanding of the level of the emergency, and the transformations needed to address it.
Farms for Tomorrow Podcast: Kathy Sample & Bill Brinkerhoff, Argus Farm Stop
Argus Farm Stop opened in August of 2014 with a mission to grow the local agricultural economy by creating a year-round market for locally produced foods. Since then, Argus has returned over $10 million in sales revenue to local producers while building a loyal community following.
Attending to the rebirth of a culture
So how can we attend to this great change that is happening among us? How can we make the birth as painless as possible? How can we ensure that the culture that results is truly healthy?
Democracy Rising 9: Facilitating Democratic Conversations, Part 1
What forms of self-governance will enhance our efforts to create resilient local communities?
The place and (place-ness) of Occupy, ten years on
[T}he legacy of Occupy Wall Street was “something that touches our deepest spiritual yearning,” in a very un-Walzerian sense; “its practice says: ‘We will no longer live in hatred and competition. We will live in love and community.'”
My Manifesto: Toward a Politics for Life
The most recent events tell us that the time has come for us to assume our responsibility as human beings who share a common destiny, and that implies the end of ideologies, not one or the other, but all of them, those of the left, center and right, and their replacement by the eco-political, generic and planetary consciousness of women and men.
Bringing Degrowth and Commoning to Fashion
Through the organization Fashion Act Now, a growing band of dissident fashionistas want to make the clothing industry more ecologically responsible, relocalized, and culturally in sync with this moment in history, especially with respect to climate change, economic justice, and decolonialization.
“The possible has been tried and failed: now I want to try the impossible”: What Sun Ra can teach the climate movement
What if, as climate activists, we were to respectfully adopt that concept of “I’ve been to the future. We won” and build on it.
January Notes: Making Peace with Our Ancestors
So how, indeed, can those of us of colonialist heritage and good will do the serious work of deconstructing, then reconstructing and healing our ancestral heritage in our own minds and lives, while sorting out and holding fast to the beliefs, attitudes, practical knowledge and skills that might be useful and beneficial?
Meet the new Transition groups
What’s it really like to start a Transition group? To stick your head above the parapet and see who in your community would like to engage in community action to build a better future? And how do you get something off the ground with all the constraints of a global pandemic?
