City and Soil: How Food Waste Can Feed us
It may seem counter intuitive, but the greatest single tool we have to reconnect to our soils is this waste itself.
Act: Inspiration
Mutual Aid Networks and Local Solidarity
Stephanie Rearick and her friends and co-workers have been constructing a solidarity-based economic network in Madison, Wisconsin and beyond:
The Sustainable Farm — New Monastery?
As I try, without sounding like an idiot, to define the kind of economy best suited for sustainable farming, I think of the old monastic farm and then I do sound like an idiot.
Beekeeping Challenges and Changes
U.S. beekeeping is undergoing changes and challenges.
Ecomodernism: a Response to my Critics
George Monbiot, bless him, has recently been tweeting his enthusiasm for my critique of the Ecomodernist Manifesto (‘Dark thoughts on Ecomodernism‘)
Transition in Australia: an open letter to Transitioners
The outcomes of our work are uncertain, but the way we approach Transition in each moment will contribute to the quality and nature of the outcomes.
Dispatches From the Edge of Change: Why Montana’s Fossil-Fuel Resistance Gives Me Hope
Indigenous is a quality of mind and a form of culture that does not belong to any one group.
Refugees are Welcome Here – Seize the Moment!
Compassion for refugees is spreading across Europe. Could it lead to a saner ‘open borders’ policy?
Grassroots Efforts Target Food Insecurity in San Bernardino County, CA
Thanks to people like Arthur Levine, local and urban agriculture in San Bernardino County is experiencing a burgeoning grassroots movement.
The Permaculture City: Cities as Complex Systems
The general “messiness” of cities has been irritating urban theorists and planners for centuries, but it wasn’t until recently that urbanists truly understood that it is just that messiness that gives cities their life.
Got Food? How Local Food Systems Can Build Resilience for Turbulent Times
In these turbulent times, we need to make our food supply systems more resilient. Producing and distributing food on the local level could help us weather disruptions of all kinds.
Migrants and Refugees
One of the elements of the Twitter conversation this week, after the body of the three year old Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi was found on a Greek beach, was an attempt to shift the language about the Syrian tragedy and those fleeing it, from “migrants” to “refugees.”
