Teaching Resilience and Sustainability to Young People
I’ve found that teaching resilience and sustainability by these new definitions doesn’t come easily. It’s rarely about teaching information.
Act: Inspiration
Helping Forests Migrate
And without forests, innumerable other species would perish as well. The only way to save the forests now is to intervene, despite all the myriad risks that human intervention entails.
Cicero and the Summer of 45
The easy path is to downsize expectations and simplify your lifestyle. This path requires giving up certain ways of looking at the world in order to embrace other, more survival-oriented ways.
Commoning: A Different Way of Living and Acting Together
Commons are products and resources that are created, cared for and used in a shared way in a great variety of forms. The term has increasingly come into use again over the past decades – “again“ because commons as concept and praxis are ancient and exist worldwide.
From Soil to Sustainability
As most everyone interested in sustainability knows by now, the concept has been appropriated by numerous entities and used in various ways, often to achieve different objectives.
Kirk Lombard, Sea Forager: A Community-supported Fishery
As more of us are becoming aware of the dark side of the seafood industry, the locavore revolution has been moving full throttle into seafood.
New York’s Dynamic Duo Leads the Food Waste Fight with Transfernation
The result of a brainstorm between two college friends, Transfernation is now a dynamic organization fighting food waste in Manhattan and beyond with a sustainable, scalable business model.
The Mythos We Live By: Uncolonising our Imagination
Whatever we are facing now we need to have a root system embedded in weather patterns, the presences of animals, our dreams, and the ones who came before us. Myth is insistent that when there is a crisis, genius lives on the margins not the centre.
How Neighbors Turned Unused Buildings into a Real Estate Co-op
That NEIC was able to finance property cooperatively reflects Minnesota’s deeply cooperative root system, which reaches back more than 100 years to producer-owned cooperatives that invested together in grain elevators, then used those connections to form vast sellers’ cooperatives like Land O’ Lakes.
Taking Back the Streets: the Role of Planning Design for Urban Biking
The “best practice” biking infrastructure designs that have evolved in Copenhagen and other European cities result in high rates of cycling, more just societies and more convivial cities.
10 Years of Transition Network: The Early Days
Fast forward to 2017. 10 years have flown past in a blur. Transition is now active in thousands of communities around the world, in over 50 countries….It has pioneered innovative approaches to developing a healthy organizational culture, and to the balance of inner and outer Transition.
In Search of Integrity
Bright, experienced and committed folks have been developing and refining them for a very long time: solutions waiting for the general populace to acknowledge that the nature and urgency of the crises that threaten our existence requires systemic change.
