Economy: There Are Many Alternatives
The New Economy Coalition hosted their third annual conference in Boston this June with a packed house of over 650 people.
Act: Inspiration
Global justice, sustainability and the sharing economy
With public interest in the sharing economy on the rise, a polarisation of views on its potential benefits and drawbacks is fast becoming apparent.
Engaging Diverse Communities in Climate Action: Lessons from Chicago
What does climate change mean to people in the U.S. in the context of their daily lives? What does “climate action” look like in the context of particular places and cultures?
Shaping Water and Soil at Inspiration Farm
If you grow good soil, everything else falls into place.
Good News For Communities Scared of Economic Decline
The promise of the anchor institution strategy to improve struggling communities has been successfully tested in inner city Philadelphia, Detroit, and Syracuse.
Systems Thinking and Complexity 101
Many of the issues we deal with in our lives involve both complicated and complex systems, and hence have both complicated and complex aspects that need to be teased apart.
Transition: time to emerge from under the radar?
…"Is Transtion political?"…Transition is absolutely political.
Local Food and the Art of Tractor Maintenance
The fact is, a local food economy requires more than just farmers and their customers: it also requires people like Morris and Fred, two of the unsung heroes of this particular local food system.
Public Housing Works: Lessons from Vienna and Singapore
A look at two alternative affordable housing models suggests that a radical rethinking of American housing policy is in order.
How A Small College Launched Divestment from Fossil Fuels
Unity College in Maine was the first in the U.S. to divest all fossil fuel holdings from its endowment. In an interview with Yale Environment 360, Unity president Stephen Mulkey talks about why he sees this groundbreaking move as an ethical decision and an extension of the college’s mission.
Seeking the Whole Story: New metrics needed to evaluate agricultural practices
If metrics focus solely on yields it can support the illusion that our agricultural system is meeting the nutrition, health, environmental sustainability, rural development and other needs of the population.
Coming into Carbon Country
Climate change is carbon, hunger is carbon, money is carbon, politics is carbon, land is carbon, we are carbon.
