Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
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.
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.
Recent research on the role of bacteria suggests we need a radical rethink about what makes us healthy
Young people use public spaces just as much as anyone else, if not more.
It’s said that money makes the world go round. But since money is a proxy for energy, it would be closer to say that energy makes the world go round. But they’re both wrong. Truth is, shit makes the world go round.
My greatest inspirations are William Shakespeare and Aldo Leopold. The key to moving hearts and minds no matter what your field of endeavor is good storytelling.
How can people in difficult circumstances build autonomous lives? The answer might be found in the Jardins de Cocagne: by cultivating vegetables.
Since pre-Islamic times, Oman’s water systems known as aflaj have brought water from the mountains and made the desert bloom.
With more than 300.000 young adults between 20 and 35 in Portugal unable to find a satisfying place in the economy of their local community…a small team of Transição Portugal have explored how to connect people and their community in a support programme for young adults.
Important lessons can and should be learned in our struggles to defend the land and commons from what took place and continues to take place in Bolivia.
The purpose of a carbon ranch is to mitigate climate change by sequestering CO2 in plants and soils, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and producing co-benefits that build ecological and economic resilience in local landscapes.
My first step onto an earthen floor (sometimes called a ‘poured adobe’ floor) awakened me.
