The Case for a “Jazz Revolution” Against Corporate Capitalism
Should checkerboard revolutionaries let their preference for incremental, open-ended process get in the way of opportunities for concrete, society-wide progress?
Act: Inspiration
Reclaiming a Public Space
Active citizens in West São Paulo have revitalized a square to create a small oasis in the middle of the city.
Harvest Season
Regardless of the “when,” a careful harvest, with work and planning, is renewable, an object lesson in resource use we would all be wise to learn and relearn.
Designing the World we Want
How can we connect our passion for food with a systems-based approach to changing the world? Permaculture claims to be one such way of doing it…
The Community Energy Revolution
Impact investing is investing to achieve a return in something you also believe in and wish to support.
Gleaning: an Ancient Custom that May Return in the Future
Gleaning is an ancient tradition, deeply embedded in the agricultural world.
Local Currency — Money for Us, Not the Bankers
The biggest challenge is changing our mindset from the scarcity built into the existing monetary system to one based on relationships, cooperation and plenty.
Gardening for Victory: One Battle for Urban Food Security
While food insecurity often brings to mind global issues and struggles in developing countries, there are many examples in developed countries of local gaps in food security.
Beyond Resilience
Restoring land to health means trying to return it to something like normal ecological conditions. But what if the definition of normal changes in the meantime?
Powering Community: Talking Resilience with Timothy DenHerder-Thomas
Our whole economy is built on financing things for privatized benefit.
Cooperative/Solidarity Economics and Advancing the Development of Worker Co-ops
Let’s try to get both a firm grasp and a large perspective on "regional co-operative/solidarity economic development," and what it has to do with “advancing the development of worker co-operatives.”
The Ecological Land Co-op
The ELC is based on the idea that smallholdings provide an ideal context for diverse, desirable low-carbon, localised lifestyles that provide satisfying employment, a reliable, home-grown food supply, and a desperately needed model for true sustainability that is in harmony with the local ecology.
