Democracy Rising 15: Getting Started with Dialogue and Deliberation, Part 4
Even as an ordinary citizen you can begin engaging and facilitating change by starting with dialogue right where you are, and building from there.
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The Radical Open Access Collective: Building Better Knowledge Commons
The Radical Open Access Collective is one of the key forces trying to show how commoning in scientific and scholarly publishing can actually work.
A note on land value tax
So while an LVT might be a slight improvement on the present situation, I can’t get hugely excited about proposals to end human misery either through an LVT charged by the central state or through overthrowing the centralized state to create … another centralized state.
Our struggles are your struggles: stories of Indigenous resistance and regeneration
Standing Rock was a pivotal moment in regards to Indigenous resistance — but it was just one in a long line of battles that Indigenous peoples have been fighting against the twin forces of colonialism and capitalism since first contact.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 73 Stephen Dinan
Stephen Dinan is an author, speaker, and the founder and CEO of The Shift Network, an organization that delivers virtual summits, courses, and trainings on spirituality, peace, holistic health, psychology, parenting, enlightened business, shamanism, indigenous wisdom, and sustainability. He addresses the quetion of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
The toxic cloud called ‘Internet’
“If we’re fortunate,” Crary dares to hope, “a short-lived digital age will have been overtaken by a hybrid material culture based on both old and new ways of living and subsisting cooperatively.”
The Bright Ages: Review
To understand racism and misogyny — or any kind of thing-ness — and the violence entrained in these ideas, you must understand the history of the Middle Ages, what we pejoratively label the Dark Ages and what Matthew Gabriele and David Perry have renamed The Bright Ages.
Revolutionary threads in feminist art
Protesting textile workers of 1800s Paris share ideological threads with garment industry strikers from India to Lesotho today. Like them, in the face of injustice, we should recognise the value of crafting resistance and sewing dissent.
Ukrainian Conservation Organizations Shift Missions to Humanitarian Support
Ukrainian conservation organizations have largely shifted their efforts to support refugees and other citizens in need, even as the environmental toll from the Russian invasion continues to loom over the country’s future.
An alternative energy strategy to stimulate rapid transition
Now’s the opportunity to insist – fiercely and unapologetically – that we want a rapid transition and we want the benefits to be shared by all.
The Parable of the Truss
The future will be a series of shifting baselines, where perhaps the gift of a spare bedroom will be an incredible act of generosity. But without members of a community working together, supporting one another, future wellbeing will collapse like a poorly made bridge.
Hemp – Overgrowing the Regime part 1
Hemp is an ‘ecological wonder plant’ with almost endless potential as a sustainable raw fibre material, not to mention its intriguing nutrient profile and therapeutic benefits.
