Are You Ready for a Coal Town Turnaround?
What makes Sustainable Williamson potentially groundbreaking is that it involves allies who bring very different interests and occupations to the table.
Act: Inspiration
Improving diets: health-by-stealth
The key to Chicken Shop’s success and effectiveness is that they work with existing market forces instead of against them.
Meet the Tenacious Gardeners Putting Down Roots in “America’s Most Desperate Town”
It’s part of the untold story of Camden: a story in which the residents of this blighted city are the protagonists, quietly working to make Camden a place where, one day, you might want to live.
In search of the commons
The good thing about losing everything is that it forces you to become flexible and to search for new opportunities.
The Sharing Economy and Disaster Capitalism
Don’t you love it when the same publication carries conflicting reports about the economy, posted on the very same day?
Seizing the Moment: Catalyzing Big Growth for Worker Co-ops
Given the current groundswell of interest in cooperatives, organizers of worker cooperatives have a window of opportunity in the United States to propel our sector to the next level.
What is shared space?
Shared Space was pioneered by the late Dutch traffic engineer and PPS friend Hans Monderman.
Is Transition political?
Criticising Transition for being explicitly apolitical, and for not engaging in the political system in the conventional way feels, to me, like criticising a spoon for not being very good at cutting bread.
Treating Food as an Investment
We need to rethink our calculus on food spending. Rather than looking at food as an expenditure with no long term implications, we instead need to view our food spending as an investment.
Permaculture Business
I recently reached out to some of the best in the field to get their advice for those just starting out in permaculture, particularly around untapped opportunities and common barriers.
Get your oats here! Community support helps new enterprise transform local food supply chain
Grown in Totnes attempts to set a standard for ‘local’.
An inconvenient truth: US proposed emission cuts too little too late
The maths accompanying obligations to “avoid dangerous climate change” demand fundamental change rather than rousing rhetoric and incremental action.
