By Anastasiya Volkova, ARC2020
The Green Road has seen the global and the local Ukrainian ecovillage and permaculture communities involved in ongoing emergency support for people fleeing the war.
By Mark Engler, Paul Engler, Waging Nonviolence
Those promoting co-governance describe it as a new relationship between social movements and the candidates they help win office — a partnership in which activists and elected officials work to maintain a long-term relationship, closely coordinate strategy and advance grassroots priorities.
By Jen Moore, Foreign Policy In Focus
Whether communities are fighting to address mining harms or standing in the way of these unwanted projects, their struggles are potent examples of the sort of reimagining and digging in for fundamental change that Arundhati Roy urged at the start of this pandemic.
By Daniel Christian Wahl, Medium
Many of us are already nurturing the potential of a regenerative future and regenerative cultural impulses are connecting people and communities to their places and bioregions.
By Bram Büscher, Robert Fletcher, Great Transition Initiative
Imagining conservation outside the capitalist box is a liberating exercise, countering eco-anxieties and catastrophic nightmares, while releasing positive collective energy. A movement united around a convivial conservation vision would be a powerful change agent in the Great Transition.
By Erica Gies, Hakai Magazine
In letting go, in providing space for coastal ecosystems, we acknowledge the power of waterlands—to hold water, to hold carbon, to hold life, including us.
By Eliza Daley, By my solitary hearth
Soil is not dirt. It is not a pile of fine-ground rock and biological detritus. It is not even a home for mycelium and microorganisms, annelids and insects, roots and burrowing chordates. It is the sum of all those things living together.
By Ryan Luckey, Leticia Rigatti, Grassoles
If we see the whole world as an EcoVillage, we have a new lens through which to perceive our challenges, and new possibilities to consider.
By Robert Raymond, Shareable
Studies show that a shorter workweek is healthier for people and the planet — but much of the conversation is focused on its impact on worker productivity or efficiency. This is a big mistake.
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
In this brief review, I’ve just picked out a few strands from Simon’s rich and informative narrative – I’d warmly commend anyone interested enough to have read this far to get themselves a copy of the book, where they’ll find much more to entertain and inspire them.
By Carwyn Graves, Resilience.org
The re-establishment in public discourse of a Welsh food culture, with its long history, its ingredients and methods, provides the possibility of a rooted baseline for the future of food in this country; open to change, but aware of its provenance.
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
What does it mean to truly understand the reality of humankind’s ecological predicament, and what should you do with that understanding once you possess it?