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.
Act: Inspiration
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.
Social Justice and Climate Justice Movements Merge in New Orleans 10 Years After Hurricane Katrina
Marguerite Doyle Johnston, a resident of New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward, did not take part in the multitude of events surrounding Hurricane Katrina’s 10th anniversary that celebrated the city’s resilience.
From Concrete to Green: Urban Agriculture Initiative Seeks to Transform LA River into Ag Oasis
“How do we get into schools to help bring children up to be good stewards?”
Top 10 Reasons to Read “Vermont Dollars, Vermont Sense”
Whether or not you live in Vermont this new handbook presents 28 specific tools for promoting local investment, and presents examples of people, initiatives, and programs in Vermont carrying out each of them.
Alternatives to Capitalism
It is said that capitalism believes in competition but hates competitors. With this thoughtful book, Robin Hahnel and Erik Olin Wright aim to strengthen the resources of anti-capitalist politics against the charge that ‘there is no alternative’.
Connecting Placemaking and Resilience in New York’s Coastal Areas
A resilient place has traditionally been considered one that is capable of “bouncing back.”
Everything Gardens: Growing Transition Culture
Academic work on Transition can often be infuriating rather than illuminating.
Two Peachy Economies
I cheer for the local food movement every chance I get, but I’m a little uneasy with the word “local.” Just as all politics are local, as someone famous has said, all food is local.
A Willingness to Try Again: Resilience Reflections with Brian Miller
Anyone who farms experiences setbacks on a daily basis. That rate of failure and a willingness to try again seems teach a few practical lessons in being resilient.
Classical Cotton Breeding
Enhancing nature’s time-tested processes or Engineering… the difference between this phrase and word is a clear line in the sand that divides many millennia of human efforts to breed plants and animals, and the contemporary field of genetic modification.
Bee Battles: why our Native Pollinators are Losing the war
Non-native species can dramatically reshape their invaded habitats and disrupt the interactions between native species.
