This #ProgrExit Starts with your Longing
So, shine on you crazy Transitioners, and Changemakers of all Hues and Persuasions. Shine harder than you ever shone before…
Act: Inspiration
I Trust Cows More than I Trust Chemists
How is it in this country we are so willing to look at technology and say that it will solve all of our problems?
The Breakdown of Nations
I suppose I have no option but to write about Brexit, adding my own small voice to the torrent of verbiage that’s already been devoted to the current extraordinary events.
The European Union and the Misery of Bigness
Years ago, the great Austrian economist Leopold Kohr argued that overwhelming evidence from science, culture and biology all pointed to one unending truth: things improve with an unending process of division.
The Magic of Trees
So when you talk about “complete streets” and “active transportation” be sure to mention the importance of canopy trees.
Breaking the System: A Review of Surviving the Future
The three-century-long reign of the market economy is nearing its end whether we like it or not, wrote late British economist David Fleming in Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy.
A New Chapter of Agricultural Practice
Although to a degree the soil remains and perhaps always will be a dark and mysterious world – the phrase from the hymn comes to mind “in light inaccessible, hid from our eyes” – the microbiome revelation has definitely brought about a shift in my approach to soil management.
Looking for Food in All the Wrong Places
Thus far, the government of Mozambique has dutifully reformed its seed laws to conform, creating obstacles to the kinds of real solutions – to hunger, poverty, and climate change – farmers in Marracuene are creating for themselves.
Buying Local Is the Key to Strong Regional Economies
In the leaky bucket analogy for local economies, money flows into a region to circulate through local businesses like water into a bucket.
Feeding Cities from Within
Urban agriculture is sprouting up all over the world.
Inside the Little Free Pantry
Created by Jessica McClard, the Pantry is an easy way for people to share surplus food and household goods, and access items they may need.
Requiem for the Imperial City
Might it be time for policymakers to start thinking about ways of trimming back the hyperdevelopment of large cities like London in service of wider interests?
