Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Placemaking, a collaborative process by which we (residents, architects, activists, community leaders and planners alike) shape our public realm together, is fundamentally about inclusion and shared community ownership.
One of the most interesting autonomous projects associated with the Catalan Integral Cooperative (CIC) is Calafou, the self-proclaimed “post-capitalist colony” which settled in 2011 in the ruins of an abandoned industrial village in the Catalan county of l’Anoia, about 65km away from Barcelona.
In 2011, a community of farmers, designers, developers, engineers, architects, roboticists and open source thinkers came together in Boston, Massachusetts, to explore a simple yet radical idea – that great improvements in agriculture could be achieved by reducing barriers to knowledge exchange.
In this interview with Joel Salatin, Joel talks about how the regeneration of his family farm utilized the patterns discovered from observing natural grazing and migration of wild animals in native plant communities.
Carbon is the most important element on Earth and the best way to begin explaining its significance is with the terribly important carbon cycle.
SHED is Doug’s and Cindy’s local food-focused modern grange – hosting a market, cafe and fermentation bar.
When you think of the work that needs to be done in order to transition to a restorative society, one that solves problems rather than creates them, one that regenerates living systems – what do you think of?
In Colorado, rivers flow not only down mountain slopes but beneath them, across them, and through them.
At last, a way to document the value of what we do to the bean counters who make decisions!!
It was as if people recognized that this was the high point of the Clean Energy Summit.
The transition to 100% renewable energy raises profound questions for the future of our communities and infrastructure.
The concept of convivialism has attracted some attention in recent years.
