Let’s Create a Fair and Joyful Society for All
Why do humans, full of good qualities and wishing for happiness, not manage to live together in harmony?
Act: Inspiration
Sailors and Solomon Islanders: Working together to take on Climate Change
After two weeks of workshops and meetings, this group had come up with their Climate Change Adaptation Plan for the village.
Progress in an Uncertain World
Strong Towns vision is heavy on experimentation and small-scale risk-taking (with potentially great rewards). It is heavy on civic engagement and grassroots action. And it is notably light on technocratic policy interventions: to the extent we talk about policy, it’s often about what policy makers should NOT do, not what they should.
Figuring Out Your Role: Talking Resilience with Sarah Byrnes
The challenge is always what’s the particular role of an individual person or of an individual organization. The discernment process is something that everyone is working on, figuring out my role in this systems change.
Ex-cons at LA Kitchen Feed the Hungry with Food Waste
“Neither food nor people should ever go to waste.”
Resilience Imperative
In Extraenvironmentalist #88 we discuss the Resilience Imperative: Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-State Economy with co-authors Michael Lewis and Pat Conaty. We talk about ways to create a decentralized, cooperative steady-state economy that can work as an alternative to the highly globalized and financialized economic paradigm of today.
Farms and Food in an Era of Climate Change: Resilient Agriculture
Our current state is hazardous and our impending reality is escalating intensity.
Dairy Farmers Betrayed
The dairy industry does not need a massive injection of taxpayers’ money, such as was given to the banks; it just needs some price stabilisation, as was provided to some extent by the Milk Marketing Board before it was abolished by an earlier Conservative government.
Skoros, the ‘Give What You Can, Take What You Need’ Store in Exarchia, Athens
This is a collaborative ethnographic film about Skoros, an anti-consumerist collective in Exarcheia, Athens, that run a space where people could come and give, take, or give and take goods and services without any norms of reciprocity.
On the Value of Water and the Pain of Drought in the American West
Agriculture and rivers. These are two of the chief contestants on the West’s water stage.
From Blight to Opportunity: Detroit Woman Puts Kids to Work in Community Garden
Riet Schumack not only has a heart for gardening and kids, but also for the city she loves and calls home: Detroit.
Dignity, Democracy and Food: An Interview with Frances Moore Lappè
What is the balance between crisis and progress? Can food activism possibly keep pace with the food industry’s destructive swath?
