New Age Farming Is Not About “Going Back” To the Land
All that a contented life requires on these farms is the ability and knowledge to enjoy life without having a lot of money to spend.
Act: Inspiration
Planting a million trees for Malawi
We will continue to plant the trees together with Malawi’s communities, and we have a joint responsibility to see they survive.
How to Grow a Local Job-Rich Economy
At a time when huge debates are raging over all the subsidies required by the 1 per cent of the business elite, Michael Shuman is working to shift public attention to the other, ultimately more positive, side of the picture…
Drinking water and Democracy: Tale of Two Cities
The tragic situation in Flint is in many ways a cautionary tale of democracy subverted, one that ties directly to the United States’ refusal to recognize basic human rights such as the right to water.
Transition Streets: Local Government, Renters, and the Magic of Meeting Your Neighbors
A couple of weeks ago, Transition US convened a handful of courageous and inspired community leaders who are implementing Transition Streets in neighborhoods across the US: Sacramento and Berkeley CA; Bozeman, MT; Charlottesville, VA; and the Catskills, NY. We were very excited to hear about their successes and innovations, and wanted to share some of our takeaways with you.
In Istanbul’s Ancient Gardens, A Battle for Future Harvests
Development pressures are threatening Istanbul’s centuries-old gardens, which have produced food for the city’s markets since Byzantine times. A coalition of gardeners and environmentalists is fighting to preserve them.
Review: The Age of Consequences by Courtney White
White strives to show how small, practical steps like these, rather than ever-more-grandiose advancements in industrial-age technology, are the real answer to meeting the calamities before us.
Why Family Farms Must be Protected
With the UK rapidly losing its traditional farming culture, groups like the FFA and the Land Workers Alliance (LWA) see protecting smaller farms as a priority.
How Amazon Debases our Language, and How we can Take it Back
As regular readers here will be aware, when left to determine their own futures, local town economies, neighbourhood economies in urban areas, can be ‘fulfilment centres’ in the good meaning of the word, meeting their needs in the round, while doing so with virtually no public funding, and paying their taxes.
A Farming Guide to the Political Season
I find that as the years go by, the rhetoric of conservatism and liberalism mean less and less to the life we live. Rhetoric aside, no candidate or party speaks for the rural farms or communities.
Why Cooking Matters
How does the food we eat affect us as people?
Understanding Tribal Agriculture
The predominant attitude of agriculture officials towards tribal communities is to try to convince them to give up their ‘backward’ agriculture and adopt more ‘modern’ and ‘high productivity’ agricultural practices.
