Think Big, Act Small: The triumph of the commons in the UK
In a time of political polarisation and tenuous trust in institutions, putting people in the driving seat has the potential to reset the balance.
Act: Inspiration featured
Why THIS GOOD EARTH was made
This film is about the reality of global warming, impoverished diets and rising hunger, disease and deaths, and also about loving the land and other living things.
Agroecology or Collapse Part II – Democratizing Food Systems and Breaking the Bonds of Food Empires
To break the bonds of dependence on capital is the objective of agriculture organized according to an explicitly oriented approach to remunerating labor and ensuring the ecological reproduction of the means of production. Agroecology is this approach.
Human Permaculture: Excerpt
To rise to the challenge and help build the newly emerging world, the field of human permaculture proposes an innovative, holistic, creative, and interactive approach. It maps the foundations of classic permaculture — a concept born over four decades ago — onto human pursuits.
Bringing disaster preparedness into resilience politics
In preparing for disaster – and re-developing after disaster occurs – we must guide the redevelopment with a new kind of political economy that is socially just AND pulls back economic activity from recreating the same problems over and again.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 21 Lynne Twist
Lynne Twist is the founder of the Soul of Money Institute and author of the best-selling book “The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life.” Lynne brings a soulful connection to the question of What Could Possibly Go Right?
Of Splitting Oak and People (and How to Prevent the Latter)
We can notice where our values have become inverted and choose instead to reassert the values known to support life. As we do, we’ll notice that we are not mere logs inverted on the stump of humanity, waiting to be split, but part of a larger, living tree.
Agroecology or Collapse: Part 1 – From Emergency Responses to Systemic Transformations
More than ever, public support for healthy food production and distribution shows itself as a win-win strategy that is indispensable for combining long-standing social and economic challenges, now aggravated by the COVID-19 outbreak.
“A Desire Rooted in Revolt”: Chileans Vote Overwhelmingly to Rewrite Pinochet-Era Constitution
We get an update from Chile, where an overwhelming majority have voted to rewrite the country’s Pinochet dictatorship-era constitution and tens of thousands poured into the streets to celebrate.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 20 Tzeporah Berman
Tzeporah Berman has been designing environmental campaigns and working on environmental policy in Canada and beyond for over twenty years. Tzeporah shares her thoughts on What Could Possibly Go Right?
Degrowth resonates: a reflection on DegrowthFest 2020
Degrowth resonated with many people in our community. That is the remarkable result of DegrowthFest, for me. I am thrilled but not surprised that so many friends and neighbors were keen on this movement and idea that is so dear to me.
The Hemp Casita of Rezolana — Rising up from the Ground
Closely weaving together habitation, community, and society, Arnie pays attention to how culture was and is created.
