The Top 6 Wins for the Save Seed Sharing Campaign
In January, Shareable, the Sustainable Economies Law Center (SELC), and the Richmond Grows Seed Library launched the U.S.-based Save Seed Sharing campaign.
Act: Inspiration
Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage: Living Abundantly on 10%
Almost 20 years later, Dancing Rabbit (DR) is a fully functioning ecovillage with around 60 full-time members who live happily on just 10% of the resources the average American consumes.
Serving Up the Food Industryâs Darkest Secrets
Swallow This is the latest book from Britain’s leading investigative food journalist, Joanna Blythman.
Exploring Slow Money
Woody Tasch, Marco Vangelisti, Mary Berry and Joel Salatin from the Slow Money 2014 gathering.
The Venezuelan Food Sovereignty Experiment
Today, some of the most promising efforts toward food sovereignty in Venezuela are coming from citizen-run social institutions known as comunas, which are forging relationships and carrying out innovative projects across the urban–rural divide.
âEpic Failâ: Feminism and Ecological Crises
Homo sapiens’ domination of Earth is coming to an end, not in some imagined science-fiction future but as the result of today’s processes of resource extraction and waste generation.
The Roots of your Health: the Science of Soil
Earlier this year, US soil microbiologist Elaine Ingham, of Soil Foodweb Inc. fame, caused several gasps at the Oxford Real Farming Conference with her controversial lecture, ‘The Roots of your Profits’.
Seattle Community Farm: Growing Veggies for the Neighborhood
The veggies all go to people who have a hard time affording fresh vegetables.
The Sum is More Than the Parts
Can leading alt-economic and social movements find ways to work more closely together?
Can Public Banks Become America’s New Engines of Prosperity?
The campaign for public banking was launched more than six years ago by Ellen Brown, a lawyer, researcher and writer who was surveying the ruins of the U.S. economy – nearly every state and countless municipalities drowning in red ink – and observed that North Dakota was getting along swimmingly.
Barcelona en ComĂș: the City as Horizon for Radical Democracy
…there is a new cycle of struggles for democratic governance unfolding at the level of the city.
Perennial Rice: In Search of a Greener, Hardier Staple Crop
Scientists have long sought to create a perennial rice that would avoid the damage to the land caused by the necessity of planting annually.
