Announcing AFTERBURN: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels
Afterburn is a book of “greatest hits”, similar in that respect to an earlier book of mine, Peak Everything.
Act: Inspiration
NERT-ing Out with the New England Resilience & Transition Network
On Saturday, March 21, fifty organizers and activists from all six New England states (plus one intrepid Californian) gathered in Keene NH to discuss resilience, Transition, and the future we want to create.
Home Growing Produces Ten Times the Food of Arable Farms
So, how is it possible that low-tech vegetable plots out perform modern mechanised farms?
Agroecology: An Idea and Practice Coming of Age
In February, at the International Forum for Agroecology in Nyeleni, Mali, a turning point came in the dissemination of ideas and practices of what is called ‘agroecology’.
This Changes Everything. So Now What?
Missing from the conversation are ideas that are both practical and radical.
Playing for Time: New handbook on Transition and the Arts launches this week!
On Thursday 26th March the long awaited guide to the arts and social change, Playing for Time – Making Art as if the World Mattered will be launched at the Free Word Centre in London.
Swarthmore Students Launch First Indefinite Occupation for Fossil Fuel Divestment
Last week, 44 students and alumni of Swarthmore…launch[ed] an occupation of Parrish’s Finance and Investments Office to demand that the Board of Managers enter into good faith negotiations with students towards fossil fuel divestment.
Wendell Berry on Climate Change: To Save the Future, Live in the Present
All we can do to prepare rightly for tomorrow is to do the right thing today.
“The Creative Response to Climate Change”
Put it this way: we would never actually say "this is climate change". That doesn’t sit comfortably with us at all. We don’t like that bald categorisation of what we do.
From Miso to Mealworms, Women Cook Up Success
In 2005, La Cocina was founded in San Francisco’s Mission District to meet a growing need for support of women-owned food businesses, specifically low-income women from immigrant communities and communities of color.
How to Become a Citizen Eater: A Trip Behind the Labels of Your Ethical Cup of Coffee
The movement for ethically sourced goods goes much deeper than simply buying certain brands.
Solving Crime and Inequality, with a Seed
Is it possible for a humble seed and a patch of soil to be the catalysts for stronger, healthier, more equal urban communities?
