Building Economic Democracy & Radical Inclusivity
We spoke with Aaron about the transformative power of grassroots organizing and leadership development, the prison-industrial complex, participatory budgeting, and more…
Act: Inspiration
Recommended Reading for the UN International Year of Soils 2015
If you never thought ‘dirt’ could be interesting or ultra important, UNU’s Robert Blasiak recommends a fascinating book demonstrating how soil management has impacted the rise and fall of civilizations.
Climate Reckoning: My Own Private Coal Story
The takeaway: Strip-mining more than stripped the land; it stripped the traces of any human contact.
“No Ordinary Conference”: The Fourth Degrowth Conference in Leipzig
Degrowth is a movement built around a critique of the growth economy, which draws strongly on the limits to growth (cf also The Growth Illusion of Richard Douthwaite) and strong sustainability debates of the 1970s.
Building Different Relationships Before It’s Too Late
Journalist, author and activist Chris Hedges took time during his September 13, 2014 appearance at Fighting Bob Fest in Baraboo, Wisconsin, to talk about the human race’s sustainability or potential collapse in the age of unstoppable climate change, corporate domination, and perpetual war.
#MapJam 2.0 to Put the New Economy on the Map!
This October, the Sharing Cities Network will launch the Second Annual Global #MapJam to bring activists together in cities around the world to connect the dots and map: grassroots sharing projects, cooperatives, community resources, and the commons.
Free Range Child – Raising Children Connected To The Earth & Their Food (film sneak peek)
Partnering with children, parents, farmers, and professionals, we seek to better understand the contemporary circumstances that create alienation between children and the natural environment and the effects of this disconnect on their development.
Resilient Cities Through Public Spaces and Placemaking in Urbanization
Chances are, if you’re reading this, you care about your community.
Making Space for Flowers
…making space for nature goes beyond the world of nature reserves, wildlife documentaries or even pilgrimages into the wilderness.
Listen to the People, Not the Polluters
The People’s Climate March, which saw hundreds of thousands around the world take to the streets for action on global warming in New York City, was followed this week by a United Nations climate summit in which world leaders advanced an agenda devoid of binding commitments.
UN-masking Climate Smart Agriculture
As women, men, peasants, smallholder family farmers, migrant, rural workers, indigenous, and youth of La Via Campesina, we denounce climate smart agriculture which is presented to us as a solution to climate change and as a mechanism for sustainable development.
Anti-coal campaigners continue to win in the Northwest
There is an adage commonly spoken in many activist circles: Think global, act local. And several communities across the Northwest, linked together in their opposition to coal transports by concern for the health of their communities and of the planet, are aiming to do just that.
