Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
In Meghalaya, indigenous women are keepers of the seeds that form the foundation of their food sovereignty, a conscious choice by small food producers to define their unique food systems and culture.
A world driven by fossil fuels tends to look same-y.
Curtis Stone’s brilliant new book ‘The Urban Farmer’, is one of the most important contributions to Transition thinking over the last 10 years…
As we wrestle with the bounty of productivity as well as the displacement of employees by digital technologies, we may consider the greater operating system on which they’re all running.
As more people turn to small farming as a business, or just for fun, or both, they are going to experience some of the delight that those of us who grew up in farm barns cherish.
In a world filled with melting ice caps, war, species extinctions, and economic peril, how can I possibly argue that the small-scale actions I write about can transform the bigger picture for the better?
How, then, do we go about democratizing businesses and transforming jobs? What is worker cooperative development?
Is the way we farm animals and turn them into food part of the problem or the solution to the myriad of social and environmental issues we face today?
Take a straw poll of nearly any Western country and you’ll soon notice that a lot of people are unhappy.
What is an antifragile food system? This becomes especially important as we enter an era of rapid climate change and civil disintegration.
Simple arithmetic tells us that a few tweaks to farming could make a huge difference to Britain’s ability to cope with floods – and with the droughts we could be facing in a few months’ time.
More than a hundred years of consumer capitalism and the free labor of fossil fuels have left most of us ill-equipped to contemplate the essentials of life and the value of work.
