A Camp Amid the Ruins
Well, the Fates were apparently listening last week. As I write this, stock markets around the world are lurching through what might just be the opening moves of the Crash of 2015…
Act: Inspiration
4 Innovative Community Food Projects Empowering Low-Income Residents
There are many community food organizations working hard to create a more sustainable and equitable food system.
The Day When Change Will Come
This is the vicious circle of capitalism, which is speeding up the destruction of the commons, driven by a world economy based on consumption and growth.
LA Imports Nearly 85 Percent of Its Water—Can It Change That by Gathering Rain?
In the past decade and a half, a few local environmentalists have been collaborating with city and county officials to rewrite the plan for water here, driven by more and more urgent necessity.
Inventing the Roads of Tomorrow
Have you ever driven down a dark road, in the middle of the night, looked to your right or left, and noticed how beautiful the road’s lines were?
Retrieval, Resilience, and Wild Planning
Resilience must be a central concept for retrieval – that is, for the capacity of communities to bring something humanly habitable out on the other side of the unpredictable stresses and dangers to which climate change will (now unavoidably) expose us.
Land Literacy
How many people could recognize an ecological wound if they saw one?
Land Concentration, Land Grabbing and People’s Struggles in Europe
This report, involving 25 authors from 11 countries, reveals the hidden scandal of how a few big private business entities have gained control of ever-greater areas of European land.
Why We Farm
The giddy delight in admiring our equipment shed, the morning sun throwing a splash of color through the Victorian stained glass window in the tack room…The barn at 3 in the morning as Daisy calves….And still we get the question?
The Story of Hudson Valley Seed Library
In 2004, Ken Greene was working as a librarian in Gardiner, New York when he decided to go beyond the bounds of his own personal garden and take his passion for seed saving into a more public, community-based arena.
Becoming Indigenous: Settling a Population Adrift in an Unstable World
Who now lives fully integrated with a clan, tribe, or other group ‘emplaced’ for many generations in a particular location and fully integrated into the ecology of that place?
Review: The Great Transition – The New Paradigm
Here, I round up what I believe to be the five most significant ‘revolutions’ that constitute the positive components of this phase shift, and whose inexorable evolution and proliferation offer profound opportunities for systemic transformation that benefits humanity, and the planet: information, energy, food, finance and ethics.
