ROSCAs: A Model for Sustainable Economic Development
Women in small communities across the world are building resilient economic systems that nurture solidarity, equity, and trust. A project in Toronto aims to bring their wisdom to the public realm.
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Cultivating Generative Communities
A generative community is a highly intentional community of practice with members that cultivate inspiring practices and aim for growth and change within their field.
The People vs. Petrocracy
Whether it’s carried out by a local movement such as the L.A. Bus Riders Union or continent-spanning drives like the Native campaigns against Big Oil and Gas, no single effort can snuff out fossil fuel extraction and consumption on its own. The mulitplication of such efforts is therefore essential.
Sustainable Food Trust plan for national food security
The Sustainable Food Trust’s new report, Feeding Britain from the Ground Up, finds that, if we change the way we farm and what we eat, we could improve our health, protect nature, combat climate change and be more food secure as a nation.
Sacred Earth: Gathering the voices of the protectors of Amerikua
The different speakers in the Sacred Earth series are deeply active and involved in addressing many of these issues and thus have an important message to share regarding the way that their culture, and indigenous culture in general, play a key role in generating solutions to environmental collapse.
Climate Policy in a Republican World
It now appears that Republicans can at least talk about climate change in non-derisive terms. However, as evidenced by the proposed policy platform, the GOP has hardly changed its tune. Only the lyrics are different.
The high cost of speed
Marohn argues that the questions of whether traffic should move slow or fast, and whether all existing traffic should be accommodated or instead should be restricted, are not technical issues – they are questions of values, questions of public policy.
Work harder, not smarter: the struggle of young workers
When employees understand their rights, and know how to protect themselves, they are primed to battle decrepit employment conditions.
Revealed: Policing bill was dreamed up by secretive oil-funded think tank
The UK government’s legislative crackdown on protest in England and Wales was dreamed up by a secretive right-wing think tank that had been funded by US oil giant ExxonMobil, openDemocracy can reveal.
Book Review: The Quantum Biosemiosphere by Michael Charles Tobias & Jane Gray Morrison
Michael Charles Tobias and Jane Gray Morrison have, once again, broken through into a new realm of environmental research with their latest mind-bending work, The Quantum Biosemiosphere.
How Corey Hagelberg is using art, culture and collaboration to help heal his community
Numbers and notable accolades aside, Hagelberg says his biggest motivator in continuing his work is to change the status quo by shining a light on the uncomfortable, systemic truths that have shaped his community — and many like it.
Rural Europe Takes Action | Much More Than Our Daily Bread
We want to preserve our sovereignty and credibility as food artisans. We want our craft
to be suitable for our grandchildren – a creative, meaningful cultural technique.
