Empowering Young People and Nurturing Equitable Food Systems
The Massachusetts Avenue Project in Buffalo, New York, is fostering healthy food access opportunities and social change education for young adults.
Act: Inspiration
Introducing Turn 21
Turn21 is a group of committed and concerned citizens of the planet dedicated to preserving the only world we have, here in the 21st Century. Our goal is to educate, inform, and exponentially grow in number those individuals who share this vision in order that we may take action as fast as possible to preserve the planet’s ability to sustain life.
Flying to the US: was it worth it?
What I haven’t yet seen is someone who did fly, writing with hindsight about whether the journey was worthwhile or not.
Building the Fashion Revolution
Fashion Revolution is a global movement that demands transparency in the fashion industry. Since its inception three years ago, this grassroots campaign has encouraged us to consider the social and environmental impact of our clothes – going viral on the internet and social networks as a way to engage directly with the brands and companies we get our clothing from and asking them “Who Made My Clothes?”.
Lessons from Syriza’s Failure: Build a New Economy and Polity
Last year SYRIZA, the left coalition party elected to lead the Greek government and face down its creditors and European overlords, lost its high-stakes confrontation with neoliberalism.
Regenerative Citizenship and the Victory Garden
In 2009, at the height of the Great Recession and an impending energy crisis, a group of friends and I co-launched our local Victory Garden Initiative (VGI), which would later contribute the winning proposal for the City of Milwaukee’s adoption of Home GR/OWN, a program for (mostly) blighted neighborhoods flipping city-owned vacant lots into pocket parks and profitable food production sites.
Urban Aquaponic Farmer and Chef Redefines Local Food in Orange County, CA
In a county named for its former abundance of orange groves, chef and farmer Adam Navidi is on the forefront of redefining local food and agriculture through his restaurant, farm, and catering business.
Habitat Loss
What happens to us as a people when the sources of knowledge are only to be found outside of our communities?
The Alley I Call Home
From one summer to the next, Montreal always gets a little bit greener. Revitalized by citizen initiatives, alleys are trading in their concrete armour for a mantle of greenery.
The ongoing Tiny House Design Chronicles: Maximising solar energy collection
Here is a brief commentary expanding on the previously mentioned idea of using the water in the indoor header tank as thermal mass and how it can be optimally configured to collect solar heat
The Strange Idea of Negative Interest
The basic idea of interest is simple. It’s a special type of rent.
Food: Trading away our future? – Part I
We may not always think about it, but the origin of trade is found in ecology and not in economy.
