A New American Dream
Jeremiah (my partner) and I don’t dream of getting rich, or owning a big house with a white picket fence and a two-car garage, or driving a fancy car.
Act: Inspiration
Launching the Grassroots Directory!
The Grassroots Directory is a new source book that aims to showcase the most innovative, practical and exciting community-led projects in the UK.
Joel Salatin: The Promise of Regenerative Farming
Front man for the sustainable/regenerative farming movement, Joel Salatin, returns to the podcast this week.
Sustainable Growing for Social Good
It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking about sustainable growing in strictly environmental terms.
Introducing ‘International’ – and Some Reflections on Brexit/Bremain
Our theme for the next 2 months is ‘International’. With the Transition movement now being active in over 50 countries, it feels like a good time to pause and reflect on how that is working, what it looks like, and the many wonderful things, and the challenges, that arise from that.
The Agrihood Project
An agrihood is a housing development built around a market garden and food forest.
The Farm that Grows Climate Solutions
High in the mountains of Veracruz, Mexico, a small cooperative is “farming carbon” — practicing agriculture in a way that fights climate change while simultaneously meeting human needs.
Two Important New Books
The Carbon Farming Solution: A Global Toolkit of Perennial Crops and Regenerative Agriculture Practices for Climate Mitigation and Food Security and Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life.
An Alliance in the Spirit of Egalitarian Practice
The alliance of the Mid-Atlantic Transition Hub (MATH) and the cooperatives movement through the Grassroots Economic Organizing (GEO) Collective offers tremendous possibility for cross-pollination and mutually beneficial movement-building.
An Evening at La Recyclerie
In which I visit an extraordinary venue in Paris and find myself painted on a window.
New Equations of Regions, People, Nature and Food Chains
We usually think of geologists as going deep, but when it comes to working through the layers of meaning behind local food, geographer Terry Marsden knows how to dig very deep.
Visit McCaskill Street — Forging Community through Resource Sharing
It all started with neighbors meeting to save money and share information around energy, water, food and more. It has grown into shared projects, shared tools and deepened friendships.
