Fairness in Transition
What is Fairness? Could we agree on a definition? And is it something that’s learnt or instinctive?
Act: Inspiration
Food Justice Truck Serves Up Fresh, Healthy Food to Asylum Seekers
A mobile fresh food market, the truck offers locally sourced fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes, tea, and bread to asylum seekers at a 75% discount.
What Goes Around Comes Around at the Bicycle ReCyclery
ReCyclery founder Chauncey Tudhope-Locklear and Board President Kees Kolff explain how opportunities exploded when the Recylery became a non-profit organization.
Cities are Finally Treating Water as a Resource, not a Nuisance
Memorial Day barbecues and parades were thwarted this year in Houston when a massive storm dumped more than 10 inches of rain in two days, creating a Waterworld of flooded freeways, cars, houses and businesses, leaving several people dead and hundreds in need of rescue.
Little Normals
Resilience means seeking out the little normals – the constants in human nature, including the behaviors, institutions, and durable scales, that have stood the test of time – and reengaging with them meaningfully.
Hundreds Rally in Alaska to Tell Obama ‘Climate Leaders Don’t Drill the Arctic’
Climate groups rallied in Anchorage, Alaska to demand that the U.S. government, President Obama and Alaskan leaders take the urgent action needed to stop climate change. The “Rally to Confront the Glacial Pace of Political Action” took place as President Obama met with ministers from around the world for the “GLACIER” conference.
The Dearth of Grass
Just three grass family plants – wheat, rice and maize – furnish about half the energy we eat worldwide.
Why Not Start Today: Backyard Carbon Sequestration Is Something Nearly Everyone Can Do
To make it simple as a crayon sketch, there are two ways to mitigate climate change that, in tandem, could work.
Community is Created by Filling the Cup: Talking Resilience with Lynn Benander
I think that if you haven’t built connections with other people when good things are happening, they probably won’t be there when bad things are happening. Community is created by filling the cup that you share with other people…
New Report Outlines Strategies for Community Wealth Building
A new Democracy Collaborative report summarizes lessons learned from 11 case studies of organizations including the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative.
Creating Livable Spaces
Architect, scientist and author Jana Revedin champions sustainability in architecture and urban development. Her work makes a case for unhurried design and lasting quality.
Mushrooms to the Rescue
Tradd Cotter and his mushrooms are stepping up as pharmaceutical giants like Pfizer and Merck abandon the responsibility to test and develop new antibiotics to keep up with new, dangerous bacteria.
