The Homeless Garden Project Is Opening New Doors to Helping the Unhoused
This one-year program provides transitional employment, job training, and housing resources for people experiencing homelessness.
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Prospects for Degrowth 2025
These are difficult times indeed, with terrible news on many fronts. What are the prospects for the degrowth alternative as we move through 2025?
Crapitalism: Psychoanalysis and the Profit Motive
Moving from cultures of greed to cultures of gratitude requires institutional change, but it also requires that we look inwards, gently put our infantile wishes to bed, and wake up to this rich earth, with its soils made healthy by shit and decay.
How Worker-Owned News Outlets Are Changing the Media Industry
For growing numbers of media companies, employee ownership offers journalistic freedom and job stability.
Beyond Community Currencies: Strengthening Your Local Economy
In recent years, there has been a growing interest in Renewable Energy Communities (REC), legal entities that collectively manage energy, promoting economic, social, and environmental benefits for their community. This model of citizen management over an essential resource has been widely accepted — so could a similar principle be applied to money?
A Different “Abundance Agenda”: Avoiding Delusions and Diversions
Our choices are clear: We can drill more, which will simply get us to a cruel end game even sooner. We can pretend that technology will save us, which might delay that reckoning. If we can abandon the delusions and diversions, there’s no guarantee of a happy future. But there’s a chance of a future.
They’re Breaking the Economy
The economy is not a force of Nature or an act of God. It is a set of human-made systems that we tweak and change all the time. Humans invented the economy, which means we could re-invent it.
The Mad Scramble for Power: Global Superpowers’ Strategies for Energy, Economics, and War
In this discussion, Nate is joined by Art Berman, Michael Every, and Izabella Kaminska for a broad exploration of the complex relationship between energy, geopolitics, and economic strategy.
What the world can learn from radical queer aid collectives in East Africa
Since their inception, The Trans and Queer Fund and UmaUma Buy Nothing group, both based in Kenya, and an untitled queer collective in Uganda have organised themselves to be independent from foreign donors, which they say do not understand the realities of the communities they serve.
Commoning the flax/textile industry: Dil Green of Mutual Credit Services
In the end, building a commons economy is the only way to deliver systems change. The way it turns into an economy is when people have bought rent vouchers, flax vouchers, kWh vouchers etc, that they begin to be able to exchange for other things, and not need pounds. If people need fewer pounds, they don’t have to work so much.
Participatory Budgeting Includes Community Members in the Public Funding Process
As governmental authoritarianism intensifies, citizens “double down on democracy” through the participatory model.
Housing justice beyond consumerism – an excerpt from Defying Displacement
The struggles around urban displacement are some of the clearest fractures emerging from what has been called the New Economy, the Knowledge Economy, or the Fourth Industrial Revolution, an economic arrangement within contemporary capitalism that we might as easily name the Gentrification Economy.
