One rural community responds to climate change
Extreme weather brought on by climate change will affect each community differently.
Act: Inspiration
Economic Direct Democracy: a radical vision for change
Economic Direct Democracy is a radical manifesto for change that is, above all, sensible.
Food Nation: We are what we cook
Food is an intimate commodity. It is bought, sold, and controlled just like any other, but what makes it so personal is that it is wrapped up in deeply individual and cultural values.
Telling Piketty the real reason why economies can’t keep growing
Exactingly empirical and deeply multidisciplinary, Capital is an extremely important contribution to the study of economics and inequality over the last few centuries. But because it fails to address the real limits on growth—namely our ecological crisis—it can’t be a roadmap for the next.
The Energetics of Food Distribution
The question of whether locally distributed food requires more or less fuel in its delivery revolves around how we define local.
Bottom Up, Top Down
How can we reverse course to avert an unprecedented series of crises that might entail massive human mortality and the more or less permanent crippling of planetary ecosystems?
The Power of Positive Spin!
Reshaping communities and empowering kids with bikes.
How To Convert a Business into a Worker-owned Cooperative
Coops can be built from scratch, but they can also be created by converting existing businesses into worker-owned cooperatives.
Sustainability, Resilience and Adaptability as Guiding Principles
An important part of many worldviews are key words that embody guiding principles. Freedom, liberty and justice represent three such words in the US, and in this post I’d like to explore a few that act as guiding principles in more limited contexts: sustainability, resilience and adaptability.
Waste Not
Hear about an online sharing system where no currency changes hands, and no new materials are used to make more stuff.
The Energetic Evolution of the US Food System
Before 1900 the US food system likely delivered more calories of food than it required as energy inputs in the form of fuel and labor. Only as our food system industrialized did today’s energy deficit emerge.
The fat of the land: Eating red meat
Contrary to most other campaign groups, in direct opposition to them in fact, we believe that the consumption of red meat, dairy produce and animal fats needs to be increased, not decreased.
