What is Wealth?
For a lot of people with money, they have wrapped their identity up in it. That is their narrative.
Act: Inspiration
So What about Beauty?
We can focus on building beautiful places but, as we say here at Strong Towns, financial solvency is a prerequisite to doing good.
Peak Oil Ass-Backwards: Forget Austerity and Grexit – it’s Time for a Gretaway!
Austerity and "Grexits" are only going to result in more and more people getting triaged from the industrial economy and, no less, from such basics as food. The alternative? Gretaway!
Finding the Land that’s Right for You
At some point almost every permaculturist thinks about getting onto a piece of land.
Scaling This Stuff Up: Resilience Reflections with Rob Hopkins
I see so much remarkable stuff happening in so many places, and meet so many focused, committed people, that I really believe that a new economy, a new culture, is possible, indeed it is already here.
The Emergency Climate Movement
We are living in a state of planetary emergency.
A Remarkable Day in Ungersheim, a Village in Transition
I am often asked the question what it might look like if a local government really took Transition by the horns, initiated it, and acted as the catalyst for the community to start a meaningful and impactful Transition process.
A Beacon in the Sand
It is this force, this idea of progress, with which we need to contend.
Dressing for comfort in a minimally-heated residence
In which I reveal how to dress to stay comfortable when it’s cold inside.
Growing Soil
When talking about Growing Soil in the British Isles, we have long depended on the cow and its dung, whether dropped in the field or made into manure through composting with straw in the barn.
Sustainable Development: Something New or More of the Same?
For thousands of years we have grown — in population, in energy consumption, in land under cultivation, in bits of data, in economic output.
Surfing Serendipity
Mary Pettis-Sarley is primarily concerned with knitting herself into the fabric of her world, and her world is anything but ordinary.
