Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Before we casually shipped warehouses of vegetables across oceans and refrigerated them, spring was traditionally a lean time in Western temperate climates, a time when our ancestors had been living on things like salted meat or grains for months.
For those who have invested substantial amounts of time and effort in founding or growing a worker cooperative, some natural questions arise.
Until relatively recently in human history, making cheese was an intensely local, home or village craft passed down and adapted generation to generation.
The particular form of prejudice masquerading as common sense that bugs me the most (probably because it is the form that has effected me most directly) is the common sense notion that manual labor deserves less monetary compensation than managerial or intellectual labor.
Mike Lott is not your run of the mill farmer. Not long ago, before making the decision to embark on a career in farming and launch his aquaponic and urban agriculture venture, Urban Food Works in Murietta, CA, Lott was a professional golfer.
Gaps are good, they invite innovation, but the odd things about this gap is that almost no one I meet from the world of learning is talking about the fact that education is no longer fit for purpose.
The global pattern of nation states’ persistent neglect of the world’s most pressing issues is the unstated background to today’s precedent-breaking discussions about cities and food.
Prosperity Parade, funded by the Barrow Cadbury Trust, includes eight tales about the new entrepreneurial spirit, where people are finding ways of kickstarting their local economic engines, often in very poor areas, and by doing so increasing their independence from central and local government.
There are many community-based programmes as well that make it possible for a variety of low-income populations to benefit by buying from farmers’ markets in the US, giving farmers a boost too.
Recoded City is filled with inspiring confirmation that, when it comes to shelter and placemaking in an age of limits, a city’s primary resource is the energy and motivation of its inhabitants.
After a string of posts on eco/modernism, it’s time for something earthier.
Emma Ben-Haouala Bernegger has established her own brand of organic products in Tunisia, reviving traditional methods.
