Rethinking Food – Out of Our Own Backyards!
Buying local these days can be difficult, as most of the food in supermarkets travels thousands of miles.
Act: Inspiration
Reviving the Lost Art of Fixing
At the Repair and Service Center in Vienna, the long-term unemployed retrain to be "mechatronic engineers" and repair electronic devices.
First Strawberries
No sight is more glorious to me than the first strawberries of the year.
The Transition Will Not Be Smooth Sailing
It is clear that the transition to a post-capitalist, sustainable economy will not happen overnight, or even in a few years.
Resilience Reflections with Rahul Goswami
What keeps me going is the desire to put this accumulation of experience, however rude and mis-shapen it might be in parts, to good use, so that one less field becomes pavement, so that one less stream dries up, that one less meaningful cultural practice fades away in an urban slum, and so that one less barrel of oil is burned just because a way of life deems that burning as inevitable.
Building Hope in Times of Crisis
‘There is a big need for the solidarity movement in Greece. It started in late 2011 and has nearly doubled now to around 400 groups – even more if you add the more loosely networked ones,’ Christos Giovanopoulos says.
Supermarkets: Is it the End of Empire?
News that the ‘Big Four’ major British supermarkets are experiencing massive losses has become so ubiquitous in recent months it hardly seems newsworthy anymore.
From Occupying Banks to City Hall: Meet Barcelona’s New Mayor Ada Colau
A longtime anti-eviction activist has just been elected mayor of Barcelona, becoming the city’s first female mayor. Ada Colau joins us to discuss her victory.
Divestment from fossil fuels: Tips for Activists
Divestment is the opposite of investment: you can think of it like “uninvesting.”
The Edible Calendar
If summer and autumn supply most of the garden’s bounty, though, spring offers the best foraging, when The Girl and I rummage through the bog-country and return with bushels of foodstuffs, ready to be dried, pickled, frozen and made into wine for the coming year.
Bologna, a Laboratory for Urban Commoning
Anarchist anthropologist David Graeber argues in his recent book, The Utopia of Rules, that bureaucracy is the standard mechanism in contemporary life for coercing people to comply with the top-down priorities of institutions, especially corporations and government.
Farming: A Not-For-Profit Enterprise?
What if the economics of money profit and loss, under capitalism, or socialism, or a monarchy or any other system, doesn’t really work for farming.
