1% Local Food?: Unveiling Transition Buxton’s Economic Resilience Study
One local Councillor wants to use the report’s findings to help combat a new supermarket being proposed for the town.
Act: Inspiration
Radical Democracy: Reclaiming the Commons
That theme is citizens seeing their right to decide what kind of communities they want to live in denied by faceless processes far-removed from local reality, and certainly not accountable to it.
A maverick currency scheme from the 1930s could save the Greek economy
An astonishing money creation scheme from the 1930s that could help to save the Greek economy.
The Degrowth Alternative
Both the name and the theory of degrowth aim explicitly to repoliticize environmentalism.
A Commons Grows in Frogtown
Artist Seitu Jones and neighbors create a groundbreaking park in St. Paul’s poorest and most diverse neighborhood
To Make Hope Possible Rather Than Despair Convincing
We stand at a precipice in history that demands that the human species achieve some fairly unprecedented evolutionary advances.
Own the Change: Building Economic Democracy One Worker Co-op at a Time
78 percent of Americans believe that too much power is concentrated in the hands of a few huge companies.
Beyond the Market-State: Decentralising Power in a Sharing Society
At a time when governments are failing abysmally to mitigate climate change, reduce inequality or end poverty, the key to creating a more equal and sustainable world is establishing participative forms of political engagement at all levels of society – from the local to the global.
Conflicts in the food, energy, land and water nexus
Shortage of one resource (land) can partly be compensated with another (water), but what happens if all of them are scarce? We see today that the market does not distribute scarce resources to those who are poor: if resources become scarcer the poor will be further disenfranchised. In more extreme cases the rich will drive their cars with fuels made from food crops that the poor cannot afford to buy and lack the resources to produce themselves.
What Role for Grazing Livestock?
The Sustainable Food Trust recently organised a meeting to consider the question, ‘What role for grazing livestock in a world of climate change and diet-related disease?’
Forget Venture Capitalists—This Scrappy Composting Co-Op Found Another Way to Get Startup Money
The banking system makes it tough for local businesses to get their hands on startup money. But creative entrepreneurs are finding solutions.
Getting Things Done Together: Self-Organisation Beyond Hierarchy
There’s something mysterious about how complicated things gets when other people get involved!
