How Standing Rock’s Divest Campaign Can Stop Future Pipelines
Sasja Beslik, head of sustainable finance at Nordea, one of the largest banks in Europe, recently traveled to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation on a fact-finding mission.
Act: Inspiration
Lean Logic and Surviving the Future: Review
NOTE: Images in this archived article have been removed. LEAN LOGIC: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It Edited by Shaun Chamberlin (Chelsea Green Publishing, September 2016, 623 pages, Hardcover $50.00) and SURVIVING THE FUTURE: Culture, Carnival, and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy A Story from Lean Logic Selected … Read more
Live Without Dead Thyme: A Photo Tour of a Garden
I spent Saturday night under a 100 year old pear tree with David Holmgren, Su Dennett, and a spirited gathering of Victorian permaculturalists, for their annual summer solstice party. My household’s urban homestead doesn’t compare…
Housing and Community in a Megacity
In South Korea’s capital, space is limited and housing expensive. Sharehouse Woozoo has found a way to provide young people with affordable housing – and a sense of community.
Wendell Berry, Wes Jackson, Mary Berry in Conversation
The problem of sustainability is simple enough to state. It requires that the fertility cycle of birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay—what Albert Howard called “the Wheel of Life”—must turn continuously in place, so that the law of return is kept and nothing is wasted. For this to happen in the stewardship of humans, there … Read more
All Money Should be Used for Public Good
We have empirical evidence that extreme options never win in this procedure. They always lose.
Baby Trees on the Winter Solstice
I planted them with the hope
That my foolish culture will soon desist in its
Suicidal efforts to sever the ties
Between humans and the Earth
Proof Positive
That’s my topic for this newsletter — why proof is important in today’s social and political environment, what kinds of points need to be proved, and how the process of argumentation and evidence-gathering needs to proceed.
A Voice from the Field: Margaret Nakiguli’s Story
My name is Nakiguli Margaret, and my story is now filled with hope.
Testing a Different(iation) Approach to Permaculture Design Process – Part Three: Another Example
On the afternoon of June 30, 2016, we talked, walked and worked with a friend, Adam, on the overall design of the five hectare (12.5 acre) block of land Adam shares with his partner Tink.
Towards the Tipping Point: Understanding Trump in a Larger Historical Context
Every day, the news seems only to get worse.
Cities in Transition
CommonsPolis— a civil society initiative to create dialogue between progressive municipalist movements and city governments, and European citizens — held an encounter described as “a common space for exchange; cities in transition and citizen struggles” in Paris on November 24, 2016…
