Handmade Tools Make Simple Work at Inspiration Farm
Watch Brian Kerkvliet cut thick grasses easily and quickly with his hand-built scythe — a far cry from a noisy weed whacker!
Act: Inspiration
11 Affordable Housing Alternatives for City Dwellers
After World War II, white, middle-class Americans flocked to the suburbs from the city. Today, that trend is reversing.
Free Farmers, Food Liberty: Local Growers Declare Independence
Can real change take root in the aisles of a grocery store?
The right to cook
I want to suggest the creation of a new human right. That human right is the right to cook.
The emerging power of microgrids
Prepare for the arrival of the renewable energy microgrid.
Mycoremediation (Bioremediation with Fungi) – Growing Mushrooms to Clean the Earth. A mini-review.
Fungi feature among Nature’s most vigorous agents for the decomposition of waste matter, and are an essential component of the soil food web, providing nourishment for the other biota that live in the soil.
The Energy Cost of Local Food
Years back a pair of planners, Branden Born and Mark Purcell, warned that there’s nothing about smaller scale enterprises that make them inherently more efficient than their larger counterparts. With respect to on-farm energy intensity, they’re certainly right.
Neighborhood Plazas and the Power of Play
While the need for thriving parks, playgrounds and recreational facilities in every neighborhood cannot be overstated, public plazas also play a unique role in the lives of children.
Parecon: envisioning a life beyond capitalism
…parecon is a proposal or vision for how to accomplish economic functions consistent with classlessness, self-management, solidarity, equity, diversity, and ecological good sense.
It’s all about the soil!
Though the local food movement continues to make strides, there’s still a long way to go.
US Cities Building Community Wealth and Cooperative Local Economies
Exciting news from Jacksonville, Florida, New York City, Austin, Texas and Richmond, Virginia.
How Brazil Has Dramatically Reduced Tropical Deforestation
Over the past nine years, the rate of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has dropped by 70 percent.
