A new landscape for skill-sharing emerges from pandemic aftermath
The pandemic has created many challenges for skills exchanges and other sharing initiatives that rely on person-to-person contact.
Act: Inspiration
Racism in finance has sparked a grassroots response. Meet the Boston Ujima Project.
Economic racism is a real issue that denies people the opportunity to support themselves and their families, start businesses, or build financial legacies — such as homeownership — that pass from one generation to the next.
Hot off the press: New Open Access Book on Transformations Towards More Just and Sustainable Food Systems
This new open access book develops a framework for advancing agroecology in transformations towards more just and sustainable food systems focusing on power, politics and governance.
Putting the Heart Back in the Valley by Putting the Fire Back in the Ground
Repairing the land is directly linked to repairing a way of life. Not just an ecosystem is being restored, but “home.”
Why My Older, Smaller Library Was Better
Only by reaching out to the community at large can we fully understand how a neighborhood connects with the key resources in its midst.
The Hardest Work Can Be a Blessing: Grief Work in Transition
There are two stories here, interwoven: the story of a project called “All Things Mortal,” and the story of the dying and funeral of our friend and colleague in Transition. They are two sides of the same coin, like life and death, and joy and grief. Neither one would have happened the way they did if it hadn’t been for Transition.
From Pornography to Agriculture: Challenging Hierarchy
Whatever the future of this broken world, today we can attend to the work of repair and restoration. That does not require hope in what is to come but, rather, a belief in our ability to manage our lives without hierarchy and a faith in each other’s capacity for mutuality.
Saving Farmland, Supporting Young Farmers
It’s a bit odd that land reform is barely mentioned in most progressive agendas. Maybe that’s because it is seen as challenging the presumed virtues of private property and capitalist markets.
Covid-19 has shown us that good health is not just down to biology
Our society’s recovery from this disease should be centred on building more equal, resilient societies, where people in all parts of the world have access to both protection from the disease and access to research developments.
Bill Vitek: In Pursuit of Better Agriculture (and a Better Society)
About 40 years ago, Wes Jackson at the Land Institute in Salina, Kansas asked this radical question: Why can’t we have perennial grains? Since grains make up about 65% of worldwide calories, why not develop perennial versions?
Musings on a soufflé dish or why capitalism has no space for love
That is why there is no room for love in capitalism. You cannot love a thing and at the same time be indifferent to its demise.
Gaia is Responding to our Actions. Will We Act Differently in Time?
It does not much matter if you devote yourself to deep adaptation or to slowing the collapse—both are essential and both are part of our bigger collective struggle. The only thing we cannot afford is no corrective action at all.
