Community-Led Solutions in Housing Crisis
Eugene is charting a new path for community outreach, using its downtown areas as places to address housing challenges, head-on.
Act: Inspiration
4 Simple Guidelines from the Fibershed Clothing Guide
Inside our own closet is one place we may begin to make changes that will have lasting impacts on our biosphere, climate and personal health, and for this reason we created the Fibershed Clothing Guide to share a menu of actions and options.
Cultivating Right Livelihood
Recognizing that the pursuit of right livelihood is a lifetime journey with no final destination, we can begin by taking the time to look deeply into our own life, asking: where does my greatest hunger meet the world’s deepest need?
Loving a Vanishing World
We can rejoin the web of life. We do not have to be its destroyer. But our last best chance is now, and countless tasks lie ahead of us.
How Could Citizens’ Assemblies be Used to Tackle Climate Change?
Not to be confused with people’s assemblies (a more informal gathering, often of existing activists) citizens’ assemblies are a way of exploring public views on a particular topic and coming up with concrete solutions.
The Wild Way to Rapid Transition – How Rewilding can Slow Climate Breakdown, Protect from its Worst Effects and Improve Biodiversity
Rewilding demands a cultural shift and this will be closely related to the shift needed for rapid transition in other areas. Sharing space with messy, complex nature and predators with large teeth is something to which we can and must adapt.
Excerpt from The Patterning Instinct: Can We Transform Our Society for a Flourishing Future?
The easily identifiable forces propelling humanity on its current course are the special interests that gain financially and politically – at least, in the short-term – from continued economic growth and use of fossil fuels.
Young People and Climate Change: Why it’s our Time to Take the Reins
In this post, I’m going to run through some of the key things that make this moment in history so unique when it comes to young people and climate change.
Democratising Agricultural Research for Food Sovereignty in West Africa
The West African part of the action-research programme – Democratising Agricultural Research for Food Sovereignty – has made a conscious effort to include members of both advocacy and practitioner movements.
Climáximo: Climate Jobs Campaign
The goal of these jobs will not be [just] the jobs in themselves – or the wages, but rather what these jobs produce. So we decided to put up the idea of jobs where the main objective is to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Seeing your Community with New Eyes through a “Walking Audit”
There’s no better way to understand the place you live than to simply get outside and walk its streets. You see how your neighbors go about their needs, how they interact with each other, and where they face difficulties in negotiating the environment.
A Green New Deal beyond Growth
The main issue with the current Green New Deal narrative is that it banks on the feasibility of decoupling economic growth from carbon emissions and material throughput.
