How do we know what is true?
So, how do we know what is true in today’s world? The answer is with great difficulty; and by being sceptical, tolerant, open-minded, vigilant, and determined.
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The London Transition Gathering: 4 days of Transition delights
It was such a delight to connect with Transitioners old and new, from far and wide, and to visit projects on the ground.
Between a Yoga Mat and a Hard Place
While there are striking parallels between both countries, India appears to have ventured further down the road of far-right violence. Its experience could potentially offer Americans some valuable, if grim, lessons.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 102 Alisa Gravitz
For over 35 years, Alisa Gravitz has led Green America, the national green economy organization that develops marketplace solutions to social and environmental problems with a key focus on climate, regenerative agriculture, labor justice and responsible finance. She answers the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Seeing More Clearly
How have we tolerated the dissonance between our comfortable lifestyles and the deadly costs trailing along behind them?
Community Radio and Social Power
As small-scale stations whose airwaves spread over short distances, community radio stations deal with local issues and problems, while at the same time they examine the multiple threads that exist between nature and culture.
Goodbye to the American Century
However uncomfortable the leaders of China, India, and the United States might be when it comes to collaborating with their counterparts, they will have little choice if they are to escape an increasingly calamitous future.
Post-growth Europe: 400+ experts call for wellbeing economy
As political leaders gather for a second conference at the European Parliament on how to move “beyond growth”, we, the undersigned academics and civil society organisations, see the geopolitical crisis as an opportunity to disengage from the socially and ecologically harmful growth competition and instead embrace a wellbeing cooperation.
Zapatista Knowledge: Theoretico-political ontoepistemic alter-natives in times of war and civilisational collapse
What we are experiencing today on planet Earth has been called in different ways “World War IV”, “slow, silent and lethal social holocaust”, “systemic crisis”, “global crisis of capitalism”, “polycrisis”, “crisis of Western capitalist (hetero)patriarchal civilisation”, “crisis of the hegemonic civilisational pattern”.
Can studying cooperative housing in Sweden teach the U.S. how to overcome the moderate-income family housing crisis?
Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives (LEHC) — a cooperative corporation that owns the entire site of the cooperative, including all the apartments and buildings on the site — could be a supplier of much-needed, permanently affordable housing for moderate-income households.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 101 Anne Stadler
Anne Stadler is a pioneering elder and board member at Sourcing the Way. Her specialty is offering services that support self-organizing individual and collective leadership. She answers the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Between Education and Catastrophe
I do tend to think of education in a very broad, open contextualization. I don’t think it is wise to isolate the concept of education into schools and schooling.
