Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
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.
Numerous medical leaders have also shown that Placemaking can play a huge role in promoting better health for all Americans.
I sense that everyone involved in REconomy, and in Transition, knows this feeling of being empowered to act.
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.
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.
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.
Instead of starting from the perspective that the crises are paralyzing and we are “done for,” let’s try something else.
In my work every day I’m trying to listen to Nature and intuit how to better fit into Her systems.
First of all, everything you do will be wrong, at least according to someone, and that’s okay.
Here’s an idea: employ a farming or ranching practice that is known scientifically to increase levels of glomalin and get compensated financially!
Since the crackdown on seed libraries by some U.S. states last year, organizers (including Shareable) around the country have been working to protect seed sharing. In both Minnesota and Nebraska, bills that specifically exempt non-commercial seed sharing from commercial seed laws were recently signed into law.
This is a true challenge. If the story is told as one of avarice, private gain and exceptionalism, the human race will go extinct.
