Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
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…
This webinar serves as a hopeful antidote to the paralysis felt by many following the election of Donald Trump as the 45th US President.
In Valais, Switzerland, a network of “artificial canals” was rediscovered in the 1980s.
Hundreds of water protectors gathered in a solar-powered 200-foot geodesic dome nestled on the plains amid tipis and waited three hours to join a traditional Lakota dinner on Thanksgiving.
As our energy sources change, our economy will likely evolve and adapt—perhaps in surprising ways.
Americans are literally and figuratively in the driver’s seat of world oil consumption.
Today there are compelling echos drawing social, environmental and spiritual movements into shared fields of understanding and activism.
Clean coal.” “Ethical oil.” How could fossil fuels that produce pollution which sickens, kills, and hospitalizes tens of thousands of Americans each year end up sounding so … desirable?
If we have to be “punk as f*ck” to be part of this revolution, then many people I know doing phenomenal things wouldn’t be able to take part. And that’s a shame.
The ability to band together to take collective action for the common good is a key to resilience in human systems.
One number stands above all others as the best indicator of good health. It’s not your blood pressure, cholesterol level, average daily calories or even the age at which your grandparents die. It’s your zip code. This fact has sent shockwaves across the county. The chief aspiration of American democracy is that everyone deserves an … Read more
Local lean economies are emerging that can be described quite accurately as ‘island cultures,’
