Building Urban Food Resilience
Central to Permaculture is the idea of creating resilient systems.
Act: Inspiration
Laboratory for Microclimates
Under what circumstances would we become mindful stewards of living systems, not just their expoiters?
Placemaking and Place-Led Development: A New Paradigm for Cities of the Future
What’s the difference between "public space" and "place"?
Women Over 65 Own Nearly a Third of Iowa’s Farmland—Can They Prevent the Next Dust Bowl?
“Being invisible does two things: You think you don’t have any responsibilities [and] you’re just left out.”
Get Growing Breightmet: Bolton’s food growing revolution begins here!
If you have a fairly spacious garden like many of the people we work with have, growing your own food in times of extreme economic uncertainty is a practical and direct solution that many people are just opening their eyes to…
Mali: Agroecology Is in our Hands!
“I decided to come here because we are building a necessary movement, that will claim back what was always ours: our peasant knowledge of doing agriculture”, said a woman farmer from Mali, as she was running to attend the women caucus, this afternoon.
Have You Done the Transition Health Check Yet?
Interestingly the similarities between a healthy human body and a healthy Transition group are both about taking an holistic view of what is happening in order to prevent problems by checking that all the different parts are working well.
These Neighbors Got Together to Buy Vacant Buildings. Now They’re Renting to Bike Shops and Brewers
While the investment cooperatives that have formed in northeast Minneapolis and in Sangudo have relied primarily on the resources of the communities starting them, both initiatives have also benefited from favorable state and provincial policies.
Planning: the untapped power of community consent
When planning consent is given for a development which local people bitterly oppose, is that the end of the story?
The Master Comes Home
Our system and our expectations for what it must provide are such that losing power is a form of powerlessness. That in itself seems a form of slavery
Can We Earn a Living on a Living Planet?
It has been a tough couple of years in the effort to unite labor, community, and environmental groups, an alliance that has always been strained.
What Singapore Can Teach All Cities About Using Urban Green Infrastructure To Mitigate Megadroughts
NASA’s new report on the likelihood of megadrought in the Central and Western United States is a harsh yet timely wake-up call for cities.
