Rapid transition to beat the heat: Community Resilience
Under the right conditions society, with all its structures and systems, can change as rapidly as the mercury in the thermometers is rising.
Act: Inspiration
Gaians as (Civilization’s) Death Doulas and Birth Midwives
But I think ultimately, I’m hoping/working toward encouraging Gaians to play an active role in serving as death doulas for our current civilization and as midwives for the next one to come.
You’re on a Beach and See a Tasty Critter. Can You Eat It?
This week I’m looking at foraging local plants and animals. Vancouver is a coastal city with beaches littered with Pacific mussels and varnish clams, and lush parks overrun with rabbits and Canada geese.
Stone Age Economics
By examining the lives of ancient peoples, Stone Age Economics questions the Western paradigm of ‘economic progress’ because, in terms of the individual, things may not have improved so radically after all.
Foraging for City Fruit on Bike Routes and Up Trees
Integrating Indigenous food systems like forest gardens into today’s urban setting will take some work. But we can look at models of food sharing and community building in Indigenous societies to help us reimagine what is possible in non-Indigenous urban centres…
Tuning Into The Future
As Carver, Kimmerer, Stamets, and many mystics and shamans have written, life (god, plants fungi, trees, and grasses) sings all around us. The question is, are we listening?
How free stores fight waste, connect communities and foster resilience
Free stores are exactly what they sound like: Physical places where people can donate items they no longer want and others can shop among these items and take what they want or need without paying cash for them.
Urban Farms, Community Gardens and Local Produce at Your Doorstep
So I’m setting off on a quest to find fresh and affordable food here in Vancouver and documenting my findings in a four-part series.
‘A flame was lit in our hearts’ — How Ukrainians are building online networks for resistance and mutual aid
After witnessing how powerful Ukrainian civilians can be in the face of adversity, people can be hopeful that what kept them together in times of war will work in times of peace.
Can Transformative Change Come to America?
Perhaps sooner than most think, major legislative action regulating greenhouse gas emissions will finally be possible. But that moment will not arrive without deep struggle, organizing, and collective persistence.
Timothée Parrique: “Degrowth: Slow is the New Cool”
What is degrowth, and how will it help define our future?
Parrique explains how the path to societal degrowth might unfold and the social and physical obstacles we may encounter on our way there.
Rural Europe Takes Action | Creating Alternatives, Creating Community
Cargonomia officially was launched in 2015. It came out of the idea: how can we connect the farm, bike messengers and a bike workshop?
