Seeds of Change
Gary Nabhan has taken the fight to the corporate seed merchants through the local food movement and seed saving community.
Act: Inspiration
How Transition Palo Alto Brings Sharing and Community to Silicon Valley
Transition Palo Alto is part of the worldwide Transition network working to build local resilience and connections. Based in Silicon Valley, the community is a great example of a growing, engaged and active Transition project.
Ali and the Sound of Beans
Ali Kawakita created NOCA?! to give a home to young people who were abused by their parents during their childhood. Working hard in farming or in crafts, they find their way to independence.
Retrofitting Suburbia: Communities Innovate Their Way Out of Sprawl
Saddled with traffic congestion and infrastructural erosion, can suburbia be retrofitted into a sustainable model of development and adapt to a post-oil world?
Agroecology Now
The primary obstacle to sustainable food security is an economic model and thought system, embodied in industrial agriculture, that views life in disassociated parts, obscuring the destructive impact this approach has on humans, natural resources, and the environment.
Participatory Economics and the Next System
What kind of “next system” would support the economics of sustainable and equitable cooperation?
Who Grew Our Clothes?
Unraveling the story behind the glamor and surface appeal of fast fashion is like Dorothy and her little dog toto pulling the curtain back on the man whose amplified voice is used to create the illusion of the Wizard of Oz.
Enter the Magical Forest of the Nayak Family!
‘We don’t want the knowledge to be cut away from the land. We don’t want to cut the connection of the product and the knowledge from the land,’ says Uday.
What is Closed Loop Agriculture?
Closed loop agriculture is farming practice that recycles all nutrients and organic matter material back to the soil that it grew in. This forms part of an agricultural practice that preserves the nutrient and carbon levels within the soil and allows farming to be carried out on a sustainable basis.
There’s No Place Like Home
Tiny houses in Eugene, Oregon, provide the formerly homeless with a sense of ownership and community.
Let’s Think About Water for Earth Day
This idea might seem all wet to some people, but I’d like to propose on Earth Day that we make a top priority of making water’s links to food, environment and city issues more dramatic, more front-and-centre, and more spirited and spiritual.
A Permaculture Guide to Choosing Cover Crops
One of my constant refrains is “Permaculture is a decision making tool for arriving at regenerative solutions.” Here I’m going to show how permaculture can help create strategies for deciding what cover crops to use.
