Resilience in Action!
Our thoughts go out to all those affected by the earthquake in central Italy – as we post this 241 people are known to have died, dozens are still trapped, many are homeless and aftershocks continue to rock the area.
Act: Inspiration
What is a Platform Co-op
The good news is that there is an alternative — one that places control and ownership of digital services into the hands of its users. It’s called a platform cooperative, or platform co-op.
The Democratized Economy: Big Boxes, Urban Centers, and Placemaking
The Democratized Economy is an economy in which there are many small-scale owners of the means of production with local or regional influence.
Alleycat Acres Puts New Twist on Community Gardens in Seattle
Alleycat Acres has survived the immense challenge of losing farms to development and recommitted to their mission to reconnect people, place and produce.
Rural Sociology
For mutual interests to come to the fore, each city and each rural area surrounding a city needs to become intertwined and re-entangled.
Declaration of La Via Campesina Delegation to the 2016 World Social Forum
"We not only believe that another world is necessary, the members of La Vía Campesina are already building a better world."
Watching the Watchers
The exercise is based on the notion that we could, if collectively we so chose, organise ourselves into more localised and labour-intensive polities and economies, and that if we did so we might better secure our health and general wellbeing at a lower energetic and carbon cost.
On Flimsy Ladders, or Flimsy Ain’t Nothing. Flimsy is All.
We float above living Earth in a life supplied by fossilised life.
Five Things Americans Don’t Understand about Politics
At the height of America’s most bizarre presidential election campaign in decades, a careening spectacle largely due to the nutcase ramblings of an epic uber-narcissist, a contemporary, real-world He Who Can’t Be Named, I’ve come to realize just how little the American people understand about politics in its nuts and bolts.
Protect the Earth. Live Simply… Our Future Depends On It.
In November and December of 2015, I visited a couple of places in India that inspired some questions and thoughts about what is involved in protecting the earth.
Wild Democracy: A Biodiversity of Resistance and Renewal
With characteristic insight, the great American philosopher, John Dewey, once wrote: ‘Every generation has to accomplish democracy over again for itself.’
Helsinki Timebank: Currency as a Commons
In October 2009, while expecting another futile climate summit in nearby Copenhagen, a small group of friends in the Kumpula neighborhood of Helsinki got together to discuss practical alternatives.
