If you Care about Changing Society, Focus on Strengths
Transition groups attempt to create the change they want to see.
Act: Inspiration
I Love my Rain Barrel
I’ve been slow to the rain barrel game, but it finally happened and I’m delighted.
Death of a Neighbor
The reality is that the technology of the day distances us from what matters.
Review: Love in the Age of Ecological Apocalypse by Carolyn Baker
In her latest book, titled Love in the Age of Ecological Apocalypse, Baker surveys 16 relationships that she’s found to be basic to human well-being but sorely in need of tending right now.
An Interview with Agroecologist Jairo Restrepo
My mission now is to defend life. This is my purpose, my instinct, but also to protect the conditions that encourage perpetual and healthy life.
Joel Salatin: The Pursuit Of Food Freedom
We need to celebrate and energize the public to defend the freedom to acquire the food of our choice from the source of our choice.
Sowing Seeds of Strength: Farmers of Color Tell Their Stories
“The chosen story for people of color in agriculture seems to play out on repeat, reducing our agrarian identity to slavery or farm labor and summing up our communities as deserts in need of water and food. But I know our story is so much richer than that.”
Living Co-operatively: Everyday Dissent
Co-operatives (housing, energy, food and worker) act in opposition to the ruthlessness of capitalism, and provide security, opportunity and positivity to those involved with them.
I Live In A FarmUNtopia
If the new notion of local farming and food production is to endure, it must start with determined individuals willing to go through the hellfire of unpleasant physical work and low financial returns.
What Does Community Mean?
Community is an important buzzword these days. People recognize that social structures are deteriorating and that people want more of a sense of connection with others.
Launch of Transition Streets in the US
After more than a year in the making (with lots of expert and volunteer support) we have finally released our neighborhood carbon/water/waste reduction project, Transition Streets.
Reflecting on Today’s Market Trends: A Report from Barcelona
Is today’s public market a place to buy food, to sit and eat a meal, or to have a unique educational or culinary experience? Can it be all of these things?
