“We’re Amateurs, but we’re Going to Grow Food!”
“This space will be somewhere where everyone will find something to do, whether developing a heating or watering system or finding innovative ways to grow fruit and vegetables.
Act: Inspiration
“No Single Project is the Magic Acorn…”
We need to think more like a forest than a single tree!
Decrypting Cryptocurrency
Do digital currencies like Bitcoin have the ability to change the global economic order?
Hard-Pressed Rust Belt Cities Go Green to Aid Urban Revival
Depending on how you look at it, Gary, Indiana is facing either the greatest crisis in its 110-year history, or the greatest opportunity.
In Argentina, an Innovative Traditional and Natural Medicine Initiative Sprouts from Urban Agriculture
This garden—where medical students are learning about medicinal plants they grow with their own hands and may later prescribe—is part of Rosario’s pioneering new Traditional and Alternative Medicine Program.
Out to Pasture: A Better Way to Produce Milk
Mat Boley’s dairy farm in Somerset seems to be achieving the impossible.
Harvesting Liberty: A Short Film
Harvesting Liberty is a film that captures a story of a vision made manifest, a creation process that somehow made it through the veritable tsunami-like conditions created from the aftermath of the changing of antiquated laws, and the tour de force of promises brought forth by many-a-businessmen that followed this political change.
Sheep have Devoured the People
If firstly, we glance around us, and then secondly into history, we’ll not escape the problems of sheep.
Saving our Bacon: What Price for a Life-Saving Antibiotic?
How much would you pay for an antibiotic to save your life, or that of a close family member or friend, £10, £100, £1,000, £10,000, even more?
What if: ATMs Issued Local Currencies?
Banks. We can’t live with them, we can’t live without them. Yet.
Tribes Create Their Own Food Laws to Stop USDA From Killing Native Food Economies
From blue corn to bison, narrow federal food-safety codes impact tribal food systems. But advocates are writing their own food laws to preserve Native food sovereignty.
Beyond the Footprint
To be sustainable as a global village — to be able to keep all of our human and ecological systems healthy — we also need to aggressively identify and bring to market a wide range of affordable, ecologically-sound development strategies in the highly-populated, emerging nations.
