City Pattern, Life Pattern
By Tiffany Owens, Strong Towns
All meaningful change in our cities requires choosing better patterns, but, more importantly, it begins by rethinking the values and vision of life that are informing our imagination.
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How private corporations stole the sea from the commons
By Guy Standing, Open Democracy
My new book, ‘The Blue Commons’, argues that the only way to stop – and reverse – the destruction and depletion of marine resources and ecosystems is to revive the ethos of the sea as a commons, managed for the benefit of all by those whose lives and livelihoods depend on it.
The Home-Scale Forest Garden: Excerpt
By Dani Baker, Resilience.org
What is a forest garden, and why would you consider developing one instead of planting a traditional vegetable garden, a row of berry bushes, or an orchard?
Review: Boys and Oil by Taylor Brorby
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
Above all, Boys and Oil is a glorious tour de force of narrative nonfiction: a memoir that reads like the best kind of novel, with a gripping story and an astonishing sense of place, time and character.
To Swim in the Seine
By Jeremiah Jones, Gaianism
As I daydream during this thunderstorm, I’m thinking of the spring rains in Paris, where every raindrop is an opportunity to heal, restore, and recognize the rights of the Seine.
Democracy Rising 23: Scaling Deliberation—the Maclean’s Magazine Experiment
By Tom Atlee, Resilience.org
Despite their differences, the intense time pressure, and being continuously filmed by a crew from Canadian TV (for an hour-long public affairs program) these ordinary citizens by the end of their third day had all signed a detailed, co-created, visionary agreement charting a course to greater mutual understanding by all Canadians.
Mexican Farmers and Scientists Share a Mission: Saving a Wetland
By Lourdes Medrano, Undark
Eslava and Sumano are working together to preserve the region’s chinampas, remnants of the branch and reed rafts that Mesoamerican farmers covered in nutrient-rich lake mud to grow fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
Holy Sh*t, Overshoot! Don’t Dither; Do
By Vicki Robin, Vicki Robin blog
July 28 was EARTH OVERSHOOT DAY. On July 29 we went into ecological deficit. Humans have used the entire annual budget of resources that can replenished by nature.
An Activist’s Guide to Reclaiming, Restoring, and Redirecting Your Attention: Part 2
By Anna Ostermeier, Resilience.org
Environmental psychology offers practices we can build into our daily lives that manage and restore a precious mental resource we all have: ‘directed attention’.
The nitrogen fertilizer monkey trap
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
Nitrogen fertilizers are like so many other things our modern industrial civilization requires, absolutely necessary to maintain our current trajectory of continuous growth and increasingly threatening to a sustainable future.
Why the climate justice movement should put decoloniality at its core
By Winne van Woerden, Resilience.org
A true climate justice agenda will need to be about demolishing the imperial arrangements enshrined in the global economy that are today leading to an ecological abyss.
Farm Stops: A New Way to Enhance Local and Regional Food Systems
By Katie Barr, Resilience.org
A Farm Stop is a mission-driven entity that supports small-scale farmers by sourcing agricultural products from nearby producers, and by operating on consignment.