Meet the Scientist Breeding More Resilient Bees (And 4 Other People Working to Save the Pollinators)
With honeybee populations on the decline, scientists, lawyers, and even artists have set out to save humanity’s most important pollinators.
Act: Inspiration
Living Within a Limit is OK: Talking Resilience with Doria Robinson
We promote systems thinking, and resiliency, which is like self-sufficiency—not "I’m an island," but more, "I’m accountable." And because I’m accountable, I can work collectively.
What Does REconomy Look Like … in the United States?
In 2014 the United States was amongst those that joined forces as an international network focusing on REconomy which is now 11 countries strong. These hubs have been assessing the potential to initiate some REconomy-type activity in each place.
Great Communities Grow at the Intersection of Health and Design
Numerous medical leaders have also shown that Placemaking can play a huge role in promoting better health for all Americans.
Reflections on 5 Years of REconomy
I sense that everyone involved in REconomy, and in Transition, knows this feeling of being empowered to act.
Grow Your Food in a Nook and Cranny Garden
A tour of Gord and Ann Baird’s edible landscape starts at the off-grid chicken house and yard, containing fruit trees that provide a protective canopy against flying predators.
After Ecuador what’s next for The Commons Transition Plan
The Commons Transition Plan is waiting for its next iteration, in which the knowledge commons are not the only commons to be considered a priority, but would be rather seen as a more general, fully physical, transformation towards a commons economy based on the commonification of land, money and labor as well.
Fermenting Change
Revived in workshops and community kitchens, fermentation has become one of the many “reskilling” projects taking place in grassroots cultures from Europe to the United States in response to economic and environmental drivers.
The Twilight of the Great Burning: What Comes Next?
Instead of starting from the perspective that the crises are paralyzing and we are “done for,” let’s try something else.
Mud is Good, a Resilience Reflection from Joanne Poyourow
In my work every day I’m trying to listen to Nature and intuit how to better fit into Her systems.
Things I Learned From my First Week as a Beekeeper
First of all, everything you do will be wrong, at least according to someone, and that’s okay.
Terra Cognita
Here’s an idea: employ a farming or ranching practice that is known scientifically to increase levels of glomalin and get compensated financially!
