Learning from Icarus
What if Icarus’ father—knowing his son would fly too close to the sun—had made the wings he designed more resilient?
Act: Inspiration
Want to See How Governments Are Making Real Progress? Look to the Cities Tackling Our Biggest Problems
If you’ve been looking to the federal government for action on big challenges such as poverty, climate change, and immigration, this has been a devastating decade…a more hopeful story is unfolding. Cities are taking action.
Open Sauce / Source for the Food Revolution
In opposition to corporate control and intellectual property, we need systems and processes which emphasize sharing and collaboration for food systems work.
“They Teach People Ignorance”
Remember there are just two classes of people—there are the ruling class and the ruled class.
How to Start a Bike Kitchen
A bike kitchen is a place for people to repair their bikes, learn safe cycling, make bicycling more accessible, build community, and support sustainable transportation by getting more people on bikes.
Where Do We Find Beauty in a Landscape?
A settled landscape can be beautiful only in so far as it admits room for wild nature.
Walking is Going Places
Humans’ most common pastime–forsaken for decades as too slow and too much effort– is now recognized as a health breakthrough, an economic catalyst and a route to happiness.
Review: The Art of Fermentation
“Between fresh and rotten,” says Sandor Ellix Katz, “there is a creative space in which some of the most compelling of flavours arise.”
Local Economies on the Table
The EU is seeking a massive expansion of local governments compelled to open their procurement contracts to bids from EU firms, perhaps even the unconditional access achieved in the EU-Canada trade deal. No U.S. trade agreement to date has included such broad coverage of public procurement commitments.
“Sweet Rebellion”: Reclaiming India’s Streets with Raahgiri Day
Inspired by Ciclovia, a weekly open street event in Bogota, Colombia, Raahgiri day has provided momentum for the ever-increasing Streets as Places movement.
Community Supported Everything
There’s something powerful about starting where you are, with what you have, with the support of those around you.
Back-To-The-Future Agriculture: ‘Farming Like the Earth Matters’
It is easy to forget that once upon a time all agriculture was organic, grassfed, and regenerative.
