Homeless Garden Project: Cultivating Community Through Urban Farming
The Homeless Garden Project in Santa Cruz, California is one of the many community garden projects in the area, yet is unique in its mission and its everyday actions.
Act: Inspiration
Turning Waste into Wine: A Pilgrimage to the Composted Land
It seems pretty obvious that recycling, reusing, and repurposing materials we no longer need makes a lot more sense than burning or burying them, not just from an environmental, but an economic perspective.
On Convening Faith Groups
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.
Cooperatives and the Next Clothing Industry
Last October, the Sustainable Economies Law Center (the SELC) created an event to discuss the opportunities that our local clothing economy can create…
SOS: Save our Seeds
Have you ever saved seeds, joined a local seed swap or contributed to a seed library?
P6: Enacting Cooperative Values
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.
Design for a Shared Future
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.
Agribusiness and Food Corporations Are not People
Five years ago today, the Supreme Court dealt a devastating setback to those working to reform our food and farm system.
Co-operative Commonwealth: Decommodifying Land and Money, Part 1
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.
The Mariner’s Rule
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.
Composting Coop Taps into the Unbroken Spirit of Rust Belt Cities
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.
The Price of Milk
Experiencing at first hand the economic impact of the climate in which dairy farmers are operating gives the issue a whole different meaning.
