Creating Artful Community with Marin Sewing Lab
A newer garment construction project is being birthed using Community Supported Cloth (CSC), a new Climate Beneficial Wool cloth supply chain lofted by Fibershed.
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Toronto’s Black Creek Community Farm
The “community of food practice” is maturing in Toronto as people in the city link local food, global foods, urban agriculture, community development, food security, food sovereignty, multiculturalism and interculturalism.
Political Economy of Attention, Mindfulness and Consumerism: Excerpt
The process by which capitalist investment seeks to reengineer and privatize nature, government, social life and even genes and physical matter is at once breathtakingly ambitious, subtle and insidious. The great contribution of Dr Peter Doran’s A Political Economy of Attention, Mindfulness and Consumerism is to show how this process is also aimed, with systemic zeal, at human consciousness itself.
Growing My Way out of Dystopia
What would it be like to be mobilized by my government — and I emphasize “my” because as far as I’m concerned, Donald Trump’s version of it doesn’t qualify — into some collective effort to make this country a better place.
The Gift Economy of Standing Rock
In only a few months, a small encampment of a few Lakota people dedicated to protecting the Missouri River from the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) became the center of international attention, swelled to house up to 14,000 people at its peak in early December 2016, and was supported entirely by volunteers and countless donations of both money and goods.
This Massachusetts Town Shows What a Sustainable Economy Looks Like
For more than three decades, the town of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, has quietly demonstrated how grassroots, sustainable, and human-centric projects could easily become the building blocks of the next economy.
Tap O’Noth Farm, Aberdeenshire – Market Gardens, Dirty Fingernails and Politics
So being a political being doesn’t necessarily mean knowing anything about parties, about who won what and who did what to who. Being political, in my understanding, first means dreaming, imagining the society you want to live in, the interactions you want to have, and acting upon it.
Transition in the Age of Denial
Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Insitute senior fellow, will deliver a keynote address on “Transition in the Age of Denial” at the Transition US National Gathering this July 28th.
Communities and Experts Collaborate for Climate Resilience: the Resilience Dialogues
The Resilience Dialogues program provides resources and expertise to help communities build individualized plans for resilience in the face of climate change
Madrid as a Democracy Lab
For some years now, we have been witnessing the emergence of relational, cross-over, participative power. This is the territory that gives technopolitics its meaning and prominence, the basis on which a new vision of democracy – more open, more direct, more interactive – is being developed and embraced.
Flatpack Democracy Architect Peter Macfadyen’s DIY Guide to Independent Politics
In this episode we spoke with Peter Macfadyen, one of the architects behind Flatpack Democracy, a do-it-yourself guide to creating independent politics.
One-Third of BC’s Oil and Gas Wells Leaking Significant Levels of Methane, Study Finds
About 35 per cent of British Columbia’s 11,000 active oil wells, abandoned wells and water injection wells in the northeastern part of the province are leaking significant amounts of methane, according to a forthcoming new study. The report will be released later in the summer and submitted to the industry-funded BC Oil and Gas Commission.
