Beyond Trump: The Path to Real Change
This webinar serves as a hopeful antidote to the paralysis felt by many following the election of Donald Trump as the 45th US President.
Act: Inspiration
Patterns of Commoning: A Journey Through Time to the Irrigation System in Valais, Switzerland
In Valais, Switzerland, a network of “artificial canals” was rediscovered in the 1980s.
At Standing Rock, No One Goes Hungry: The Kitchen That Serves Traditional Lakota Food and Values
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.
In Conversation: Our Economy After Fossil Fuels
As our energy sources change, our economy will likely evolve and adapt—perhaps in surprising ways.
Make Your Life Less Oily in 2017: Part I, Taking Stock
Americans are literally and figuratively in the driver’s seat of world oil consumption.
Community Currency Classroom
Today there are compelling echos drawing social, environmental and spiritual movements into shared fields of understanding and activism.
How to Convince Your Neighbors Climate Change Is Real? Stop Calling Them Idiots, Says DeSmog Founder Jim Hoggan
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?
Is Being “Punk as F*ck” Really Where it’s At?
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.
Resilient Las Vegas?
The ability to band together to take collective action for the common good is a key to resilience in human systems.
Tapping the Power of Place to Keep Us All Healthy
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
Island Culture Rising
Local lean economies are emerging that can be described quite accurately as ‘island cultures,’
Make Connections, Make Food
Seventeen simple sayings for scholar-activists.
