Another Reason for a Carbon Tax
How do we create a marketplace that will pay landowners and others to double the carbon content of their soil?
Act: Inspiration
What Does the Power to Convene Look Like in Stroud?
What does the Power to Convene look like in the work of Transition Stroud?
Seed sharing in US threatened by regulation
Local regulators in the US are starting to apply laws meant for big, corporate seed producers to the approximately 300 community seed libraries in the US. Unless regulators are stopped soon, these seed libraries may be quickly regulated out of existence. State regulators are copying one another and, unfortunately, this trend is gaining momentum.
Is “resilience” the new sustainababble?
Suddenly, “resilience” is everywhere. It’s the subject of serious books and breezy news articles, of high-minded initiatives and of many, many conferences. After Superstorm Sandy, it was triumphantly plastered on city buses, declaring New Jersey “A State of Resilience.”
Utility 3.0: How to Democratize Energy in the U.S.
In a December 2014 report from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, John Farrell makes the case for a more radical shift, which he calls "Utility 3.0" or "energy democracy."
Urban Farming Guys
Anyway sometimes something pops up in one of your streams that breaks through all the nonsense and shines a powerful beam of hope..
Renowned Chef Dan Barber Offers Radical New Way to Farm
After researching farm communities throughout the world for more than a decade, Barber concluded America’s food needs a radical transformation to ensure the future of our health, food and land.
Engaging Communities in Decisions after Complex Disasters: Lessons from Fukushima
As a starting point for the sustainable recovery of communities affected by disasters, decision-makers must meet the needs of the affected population while being mindful of the local context.
Nebraska’s Community-Owned Electricity Generation
In Nebraska, 121 publicly-owned utilities, 10 cooperatives, and 30 public power districts provide electricity to a population of around 1.8 million people.
Journalist launches online archive to document diversity of rural India
Although Sainath is known for his forceful critiques of people in power and the inequality built into contemporary economics and politics, just as often his newspaper work focused on the dignity of ordinary people in the face of injustice.
Securing Water for Urban Farms
A surprisingly large share of the world’s cropland is found not in rural areas, but within cities and their immediate surroundings.
This Rust-Belt Town’s Survival Strategy Is All About Giving Workers Control
This localist agenda is part of Mayor Spencer’s ambitious program to create a fairer and more sustainable local economy whose businesses stay put and where money spends more time circulating locally among networked enterprises.
