If the World’s Soils Keep Drying Out that’s Bad News for Microbes (and People)
Deep beneath our feet, out of sight and out of mind, millions of tiny communities of microbes are working together to perform key functions for the ecosystem.
Act: Inspiration
A Farmers’ Guide to the Senses
A celebration of farming through the senses.
Does your City have a Future?
In the past, as in the future, local ecosystem resources were the key to the economies of cities.
If There Are No New Farmers, Who Will Grow Our Food?
Farming as an occupation has been graying steadily for more than three decades
Welcoming Night
These are people who found a tiny and overcrowded raft, floating on the open ocean, safer than their homes. See what you can do where you live — you probably can’t do much, but you might be able to do a little.
The unstoppable rise of ‘Demain’
The film ‘Demain’ (‘Tomorrow’) is proving to be one of the most remarkable catalysts for Transition and other bottom-up approaches that has ever been made.
How Breaking Down Government Silos Empowers Placemaking
At PPS, we often say, “When you focus on place, you do everything differently.”
Democratic Energy and Climate Change
The environmental crisis, provoked by human activity, is of much bigger magnitude than any of the other crises we have known up till now.
Small Scale Farming Really Isn’t Small
Economists sanctify expansion in agriculture as the way farmers survive but in the very act of saying that, they are also pointing out why farmers don’t survive.
The Yardfarmers Trailer is here!
t’s here! After our successful call for contestants this summer, we produced a trailer with five budding yardfarmers. Watch it now! And then share the video with your friends!
Beyond the Oregon Protests: The Search for Common Ground
Thrust into the spotlight by a group of anti-government militants as a place of confrontation, the Malheur wildlife refuge is actually a highly successful example of a new collaboration in the West between local residents and the federal government.
Food in a Not Too Distant Future
For the last few months, I’ve been working closely with three very different groups, each keen to hitch their wagon to a regional food system.
