Knowing what ‘just enough’ is
One of the most extraordinary books I have read in recent years is Just Enough: lessons in living green from traditional Japan by Azby Brown.
Act: Inspiration
Wild Seeds
For a decade now, I have been a seed saver.
What is Community Wealth Building and Why is it Important?
CWB builds on local talents, capacities and institutions, rebuilding capital to strengthen and create locally-owned family and community owned businesses.
Market Match: Making Fresh and Healthy Food Affordable
Started by Roots of Change in 2009 and now administered by the Berkeley-based Ecology Center, Market Match is a statewide healthy food incentive program that aims to improve the health of low-income communities by incentivizing shoppers to buy produce at farmers markets.
Permaculture, a Vision of the Post-Oil World
More than an agricultural technology, permaculture is a vision of the societies of tomorrow, ours, which will be confronted with the evolution of energy and climate systems.
Hope For Imagining a World Beyond Corporate Control
The commons is not just a battlefield between corporate predators and those who resist them – it is also a source of hope for those willing to imagine a world beyond capitalism.
What Makes a Market?
The Netherlands is not known for its food culture but it’s now keen to play catch up with its European counterparts.
A Decade After Asian Tsunami, New Forests Protect the Coast
The tsunami that struck Indonesia in 2004 obliterated vast areas of Aceh province. But villagers there are using an innovative microcredit scheme to restore mangrove forests and other coastal ecosystems that will serve as a natural barrier against future killer waves and storms.
Food Safety Modernization Act – An Assault on Sustainable Agriculture?
We are not ready to be again a nation of farmers, each growing our own, but we are potentially on the edge of a major shift in public consciousness in favor of sustainable local food chains, moving us toward independence from corporate agriculture, and that much less dependent on fossil fuels.
Democratic energy beyond neoliberalism
Our relationship to energy needs to change.
One Minute Review: Incredible! by Pam Warhurst & Joanna Dobson
Incredible!: Plant Veg, Grow a Revolution is the story of Incredible Edible Todmorden (IET), the food-growing project in Yorkshire which has inspired people around the world to look at their urban spaces in a very different way.
Can a Complementary Currency Help End Poverty?
A Q&A with John Boik founder of the Principled Societies Project and author of the book Economic Direct Democracy: A Framework to End Poverty and Maximize Well-Being.
