To Monopoly, Reasoned Argument is Lost Amongst Meaningless Cries of Sea Birds
We converse with each other, but to the monopolies, we are a noise – a sea bird colony at nesting time…
Act: Inspiration
Macro and Climate Economics: It’s Time to Talk about the “Elephant in the Room”
Economic growth…in macroeconomic models is the so-called elephant in the room that, unfortunately, almost no one talks about or seeks to improve.
Unused Capacity: The Secret Stash that Can Fuel the Next Generation of City Food Entrepeneurs
Thanks to entrepreneurial ability to find and use the resources hidden by mass stupidity, food advocates can almost set the world in the right direction by making use of unused capacity.
Can the ‘New Economy’ and Labor Movements Come Together Again?
As capitalism continues to undergo economic and environmental crises, more common projects between the new economy and labor movements may lead to a revival within mainstream labor of the old cooperative commonwealth concept.
Capital Questions
The University of the District of Columbia is leading the charge in transforming the food system in a city challenged with high levels of poverty, obesity, and population growth.
Flight Path — On Reading David Fleming’s ‘Surviving the Future’
The man you might not know. And yet if you know anything about the Green Party, Tradable Energy Quotas, the Transition Movement, New Economics Foundation or the Soil Association you would have met his ideas and his vision many times.
Degrowth and the Global Ecovillage Network
Can degrowth be considered a movement? Does degrowth embrace all kinds of movements struggling for a sustainable future?
Exchanging Autonomy
This article is aimed on one hand at defining some dimensions of individual autonomy, on the other at proposing exchanges of values and metavalues as a possible way to promote such dimensions.
Trumped and Stumped: A Cure for Political Polarization?
A book called I’m Right and You’re an Idiot: The Toxic State of Public Discourse and How to Clean It Up sounds like it was written just for the 2016 US presidential race.
The Big Difference at Standing Rock Is Native Leadership All Around
This year’s massive buildup of resistance to the Dakota Access pipeline follows closely on the heels of the victory over Keystone XL pipeline, something often credited to feverish organizing by 350.org.
The Great Tear-Down
So I feel a particular sadness watching old barns fall into disuse or being torn down before their time, the wood destined to deck a second home on the lake or, more often, simply bulldozed and burned.
Nutrition in Neo-Peasant Wessex
In my last post I presented a picture of the production on an ‘average’ 10 hectare holding in the future Peasant’s Republic of Wessex. Here I’m going to update that picture slightly in the light of some of the comments I received and then take a look at what sort of diet such a holding would turn out for its inhabitants.
