Review: Practicing, Not Preaching: A Helpful Guide for Resilience Practitioners
Resilience Practice ably picks up where Resilience Thinking (2010) left off.
Act: Inspiration
Oxford Real Farming Conference: power, lies, and the need for agrarian resistance
The world’s global strategy of food and farming is founded on three great untruths – lies, in effect — which between them are threatening to kill us all, and in practice are well on the way to doing so.
Seeding change
73% of seed crops are now ‘owned’ by 10 corporations – while community and grassroots initiatives are working to keep global diversity alive.
Living and Breathing in a ‘Black Swan’ World
Resilience…is the capacity to make ongoing adjustments to changing political, economic, and ecological conditions.
Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure for Urban Energy Systems
Extreme weather from climate change and growing urbanization are making cities more vulnerable to loss of electric power and damage to energy infrastructure.
Mother Nature’s Tillers
Been thinking how to grow a prairie. I am facing a steep learning curve.
Inspiring New Film, “Voices of Transition,” on the Agriculture That We Need
How will agriculture have to change if we are going to successfully navigate past Peak Oil and address climate change?
Inner Transition: Commit to Staying Awake
FULL engagement with transitioning asks us to recognize the power of goodness in others, our neighbors and most difficultly, to accept it in ourselves!
Carrots among the concrete: the role of urban agriculture
Urban agriculture is cutting edge. It’s what we need right now.
After Years Without a Grocery Store, Greensboro Neighbors Are Building One Themselves—And They’ll Own It
For more than 15 years, there were many efforts to lure a new grocery store into the space. However, while the store would be profitable, it wouldn’t be profitable enough to satisfy the demands of the shareholder-based economy of a large corporation.
Learning From Ancient Human Cultures
We are much more into securing our future based on accumulation rather than on sharing.
How a Worker Cooperative Factory is Helping bring Textile Manufacturing back to North Carolina
Opportunity Threads is a worker cooperative cut and sew factory in Morganton, North Carolina.
