A Run on the Planet
And the banks? Well, they further undermine the planet’s environment, upon which all else depends. Including the economy—which is a subset of the earth, and not the other way around.
Act: Inspiration
A Tale of Two Garden Books
There are all types of gardens. I think Silver does a better job of teaching this important lesson even as he restricts his list of plant allies to a few that work for him. That is the point.
Deadly train collision in Greece reveals the dysfunctionality of State and capitalism – time for self-management
A major social change is urgently needed, one based on total political equality and direct participation, that requires moving beyond statecraft and capitalism
Achieving 30×30: Percentages Matter, We’re All in This Together, and What You Do to Help Counts Big-time
The “Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework” (GBF), approved by the 15th Conference of Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity clearly states the goal of protecting, conserving, and restoring 30% of Earth’s lands and waters by 2030.
A love letter to a regenerative community
The labour of love that is Camp Habiba Community (Habiba does mean love after all), has risen out of the Sinai sands as a result of elevating and empowering local communities and their collective will to regreen the desert.
On the Other Side of Separation: Individual and Collective Steps Towards a Post-Patriarchal Way of Living
I offer, here, a feminist vision of a global maternal gift economy and describe pathways to moving towards it from exactly where we currently are, both collectively and individually.
Philadelphia Passes Public Banking Law
From It’s A Wonderful Life, we can see the advantages of community and cooperative banking where the people, and not corporate bosses, are in charge.
How climate adaptation plans for European cities are gradually getting better
We hope that our study – and the accompanying online tool – can help practitioners and policymakers reflect on what they can include in future plans, and thereby contribute towards improved resilience in cities across Europe and elsewhere.
Women in Agriculture
So if the community’s health is dependent on the ability of women to provide for themselves, the question is how do we make it easier for women to do so?
The supersedure state revisited
Supersedure situations in which the zombie state fails to deliver welfare locally and people have to start innovating their own local solutions can take many forms and by their nature are always going to be locally specific and deeply contextual.
Worried about fruit & veg rationing? Let’s grow our own, in our communities.
But we need to start considering food production as normal as housework. We could start with our gardens, but better is to club together in networks and press for participation and support from organisations with resources and power, including local authorities.
Seventh Generation vs. (sigh) ‘Longtermism’
The intention of Seventh Generation thinking, as I see it, is to better relationalize our world – as in recognizing and pouring life into the organic links that connect everything to everything. The intention of longtermism, on the other hand…. Well, I really wonder.