Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
A loose confederation of animal welfare activists, human health activists and environmentalists have popularised the view that globally we need to produce less meat and livestock, and it’s not a view I’ll quarrel with for the most part.
But what I and my neighbors do share is a respect for the land, work, and community and the pleasure that comes from doing for yourself.
Unlike a UBI, a Job Guarantee (JG) is not an untested policy in our country.
Boomers, he said, are “those who pillage and run,” who want “to make a killing and end up on Easy Street,” whereas stickers are “those who settle, and love the life they have made and the place they have made it in.”
I feel inordinately lucky to be able to do this work – despite the fact that it often feels overwhelming or frightening.
The moment that you arrive at Blaenffos Market Garden in Pembrokeshire you can see that there is an artist’s hand at work…
The same principle that makes urban devolution so attractive and plausible—that governance is most responsive and responsible when it is as close to the people it serves as possible—can just as easily be applied to even smaller scales of self-government.
Woodcraft Folk members are inspiring individuals giving their energy week after week to educate the next generation of scientists, teachers, artists and activists.
What makes a broad mass of people generally be supportive of speculative public projects like new highways, stadiums, reconditioning the downtown or building an “entertainment district”, sold to the public as “growth”?
At a time of widespread corruption of governments by powerful moneyed interests, we don’t need to give mega-corporations yet another tool to override the will of “we the people.”
Trade is not only a response to market demand, it creates demand and therefore recreates the need for it; trade becomes its own justification.
With the climate emergency now breaking upon the world, some may wonder whether human society is going to be capable of an effective response.
