Decolonizing our Minds and our Lands: Reviving Seeds, Culture
The wars [of conquest of Africa] have not actually ended – the artillery has just transformed into a different type against us farmers today. All of us are fighting.
Act: Inspiration
Touching the Earth
It feels to me that we find ourselves in a new world.
#SolidarityCities: Upstate New York
We visited Ithaca to attend an event which we also helped organize, the Mobilizing the Cooperative Economy in NY State Summit. This meeting built on momentum from summits held in Syracuse in 2012 and 2013.
The Fungi Thing about Soil
When we pick up a handful of soil, it is hard to imagine all the activity that is happening at a microscopic scale within it and the powerful impacts this has.
Goldilocks in the Highlands: Some Notes on Scaling Resilience
A recent visit to the Scottish Highlands prompted some thoughts on several favoured themes of mine: the resilience or otherwise of local economies grounded in small-scale agricultural production, problems of migration as featured in a recent post, and questions concerning ‘modernization’ and economic development.
COP21 and “4 per thousand” – Storing Carbon in the Soil
It would have been a remarkable oversight, had not our use of the land and its soils featured among the discussions about climate change mitigation in Paris at COP21.
Wealthiest One Percent, Come Home!
Chuck Collins believes that extreme wealth inequality and our global ecological crisis are bad for everyone, including those with great wealth.
Post-Paris Analysis: 1.5 degrees and Mobilization
The Paris climate talks are over, and the postmortems on the final agreement are flooding in. Here’s our take…
For a Resilient Future, Put Community First
Both The Transition Towns (Transition) and Intentional Communities movements facilitate secession, to varying degrees, from the exploitive culture that surrounds us, and build alternatives that are supported by broad networks.
Reinventing Banking: From Russia to Iceland to Ecuador
Global developments in finance and geopolitics are prompting a rethinking of the structure of banking and of the nature of money itself.
The Beginning Farmer’s Guide to Success
If you are seriously contemplating a full-time career or even a side business in yardfarming, Curtis Stone’s upcoming book, The Urban Farmer, is definitely the place to start.
Filming the Change in New Zealand
As this year wraps up and the footage for our feature-length documentary, A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity, goes away to the editor, I’m planning a trip to New Zealand to make a series of short films about all kinds of inspiring people and projects.
