Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
It behoves us as Transitioners to try to diffuse a message to invite people to consider how we’re moving towns and villages and hamlets towards resilience to create that space, because we bump up against so many different types of people here.
Last October, the Sustainable Economies Law Center (the SELC) created an event to discuss the opportunities that our local clothing economy can create…
Have you ever saved seeds, joined a local seed swap or contributed to a seed library?
Principle Six (P6) provides a pathway for everyday people to use our cooperatively owned community institutions to move money into the hands of small, local, and cooperative businesses.
Sharing with others is one of the positive stories to tell in the face of a harsh future, but how we tell that story is paramount.
Five years ago today, the Supreme Court dealt a devastating setback to those working to reform our food and farm system.
Access to land and the cost of that access are essential to the provision of affordable housing. Likewise, access to money, and the cost of that access, are issues fundamental to economic health.
One of the things my readers ask me most often, in response to this blog’s exploration of the ongoing decline and impending fall of modern industrial civilization, is what I suggest people ought to do about it all.
Today Cleveland boasts over 200 community gardens. I am proud to say I get to work with a handful of them in a unique way.
Experiencing at first hand the economic impact of the climate in which dairy farmers are operating gives the issue a whole different meaning.
As consumers, we are taught to be dissatisfied with what we have.
What does it mean to live in this time, and how might we keep some sanity?
