Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
In caring commons, autonomy and self-reliance are approached collectively. Human health is understood holistically, with a focus on promoting community solidarity in caring endeavors.
We are each and all of us playing the music of the spheres in the Big Bang Orchestra, which doubles as our hearth and home.
It’s a source of satisfaction to Jacqueline that she and her family are very much present in the fields around the village where they live.
One reason she wanted to become a farmer was to see animals in the pastures.
I recently had an extraordinary and rare experience, as an academic, activist and citizen: I participated in a victorious movement.
How will the radical regeneration of our key civilizational institutions happen? Not by delegating it to Big Money, Big Tech, or Big Gov. If it’s going to work, it will be sparked by a movement that works from EVERYWHERE
I firmly believe that we are not destined to be a destructive species. I know we have the potential of healing the Earth and her people by co-creating diverse regenerative cultures everywhere.
After three action-packed days, the Oxford Real Farming Conference 2022 ended on a positive note, forging hope from solidarity.
“What can I do?”, “How hard should I try?”, “Why aren’t we all on the streets, night after night, fighting for change?”… Perhaps, all we can say at the end of it all is that asking these questions is an important part of the process. A sign that you’re still fighting, still human. You have not given up.
The winners of COP 26 were the indefatigable voices of civil society, whose actions were loud and clear: on the final Friday, many, many organizations walked out of the COP in protest, reminded me of the walkout I witnessed and took part in at COP 19 in Warsaw in 2013.
Ending the extraction of fossil fuels from the Earth while achieving material sufficiency, equity and justice would move us a long way toward the more livable future that the people who gathered outside COP26 — along with billions of others around the world — are demanding and are standing ready to create.
“This is what the state, this is what the fossil fuel industry will do to protect this big, outdated, ancient asset — instead of protecting us, the people, and taking action against the climate crisis.”
Without missing a beat, Shapiro-Weiss boldly stated, “This is why we’re doing this.”
EcoAraguaia Farm of the Future is a former cattle ranch in the Amazon rainforest with a big mission: to show the world how producing food, restoring nature, and creating livelihoods can go hand in hand. The key to all of this? Regenerative agriculture: a holistic system for managing the land that integrates people, planet, and profit.
