Justice Must Flow: Economic Democracy and the Water Commons
Now in the throes of artificial scarcity, U.S. cities, counties and states are running out of water even as they turn control over managing water supplies to private corporations.
Food & Water
“Honey on Tap” Beehive Smashes Indiegogo Fundraising Record
Stuart and Cedar Anderson have set the internet abuzz with their record-breaking Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign.
Food democracy South and North: from Food Sovereignty to Transition Initiatives
People seek to co-design food systems, to participate in shaping them, to recapture them. We were familiar with the slogan of workplace democracy; we must now open up our eyes to food democracy.
The New Ranch
Fortunately, a growing number of ranchers…are embracing a cluster of new ideas and methods, often with the happy result of increased profits, restored land health, and repaired relationships with others.
Eating Skint
If you’re young and hard up, eating a varied, delicious and high quality diet can seem a starry-eyed dream, never mind trying to eat consciously or sustainably. But with a little time and thought, it need not be so.
Lessons from São Paulo’s Water Shortage
It’s getting harder and harder to separate nature’s role in disasters from our own, and the dire water predicament confronting São Paulo, Brazil, is no exception.
Earth Repair – Homegrown Healing of Toxic Lands, part 1
Leila Darwish, author of Earth Repair, provides a grassroots guide to healing toxic and damaged landscapes.
Gaining ground: Senegalese agriculture relocalises
In 2015, the International Year of Soils, the West African country of Senegal can be heralded as a leading example of increased food security and improved public health.
On the River Nile, a Move to Avert a Conflict Over Water
Ethiopia’s plans to build Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam on the Nile have sparked tensions with Egypt, which depends on the river to irrigate its arid land. But after years of tensions, an international agreement to share the Nile’s waters may be in sight.
The Top 6 Wins for the Save Seed Sharing Campaign
In January, Shareable, the Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC), and the Richmond Grows Seed Library launched the U.S.-based Save Seed Sharing campaign.
Serving Up the Food Industry’s Darkest Secrets
Swallow This is the latest book from Britain’s leading investigative food journalist, Joanna Blythman.
The Venezuelan Food Sovereignty Experiment
Today, some of the most promising efforts toward food sovereignty in Venezuela are coming from citizen-run social institutions known as comunas, which are forging relationships and carrying out innovative projects across the urban–rural divide.
