Community Supported Everything
There’s something powerful about starting where you are, with what you have, with the support of those around you.
Act: Inspiration
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.
Creating Regional Resilience in New England
While Transition and other grassroots groups focus on the vital task of local resiliency, it is becoming clear to many of us that the demands of our time, and the transition now unfolding, also require us to think regionally.
“Communities with Cooperatives, not Communities of Cooperatives”
The idea of Las Indias is that it is a community with cooperative businesses, not a community of cooperatives.
MoGro: Innovations in Health and Well-being for New Mexico’s Food Deserts
The challenge of local and healthy food access is a complex puzzle being addressed across the country, from pre-boxed home delivery companies like Good Eggs, to mobile farmers’ markets and healthy produce vans.
Amending Colorado’s Constitution: Do Communities Have the Right to Clean Air and Water?
As voters last week banned fracking in regions from Ohio to Texas to California, Colorado citizens are meanwhile attempting to reclaim their own right to a safe, healthy environment by enacting the Colorado Community Rights amendment to the Colorado Constitution.
Climate Crisis and the Pursuit of Happiness: Reflections on Community Solutions Conference
This last phrase has been sticking out in my mind all day–the pursuit of happiness, especially.
Greening Houston
The U.S. capital of the oil industry could teach other cities a thing or two about fighting climate change—in a politically inhospitable climate.
Playing the Long Game
The dominant reality we face is one of substantial ongoing political stalemate and decay, and this sets the terms of reference for those serious about long term, more fundamental change.
Land, Co-ops, Compost: A Local Food Economy Emerges in Boston’s Poorest Neighborhoods
From a community land trust that preserves land for growing, to kitchens and retailers who buy and sell locally grown food, to a new waste management co-op that will return compost to the land, a crop of new businesses and nonprofits are building an integrated food economy.
Falling Fruit: Mapping Free Food Around the World
Today, Falling Fruit is the world’s largest foraging map, and the only one (to my knowledge) to be fully open source and open data.
What We Can Learn from Fracking Bans Winning and Losing at the Polls
Whether or not a ban on fracking is favored by the American people is still up for debate after reviewing this year’s election season.
