The New Economy Gets Real at CommonBound Conference this Weekend
Real talk? Something is happening on planet Earth: people are realizing that our economic traditions are unjust, unhealthy and unsustainable.
Act: Inspiration
Visions of a techno-leviathan: The politics of the Bitcoin blockchain
Bitcoin sometimes appears akin to an illegal immigrant, trying to decide whether to seek out a rebellious existence in the black-market economy, or whether to don the slick clothes of the Silicon Valley establishment.
Our future farmers: Ragman’s Farm
As land prices soar, and the average age of farmers continues to climb, we desperately need new farmers, or risk having nobody to feed us in the future.
Scientists vindicate ‘Limits to Growth’ – urge investment in ‘circular economy’
A fundamental reorganisation of the way societies produce, manage and consume resources could support a new high-technology civilisation, but this would entail a new "circular economy" premised on wide-scale practices of recycling across production and consumption chains, a wholesale shift to renewable energy, application of agro-ecological methods to food production, and with all that, very different types of social structures.
Urban Agriculture in Rust Belt Cities
In many Great Lakes “rust belt” cities, urban agriculture has emerged as a productive reuse of vacant land resultant from economic decline, population loss, and home foreclosures.
What happens at a Local Food “Lab”
This post outlines the key elements to this form of eater/producer/middle folk engagement to strengthen their local food systems.
In the Name of Local Democracy: Let Towns, Cities Decide on Fracking
On Tuesday, the New York State Court of Appeals will hear arguments in a case that poses a simple question: Can cities and towns in the Empire State fend off potentially devastating environmental and economic damage by banning hydraulic fracturing through their zoning code?
How about a REAL people’s party?
Perhaps its time for progressives to get their act in gear, dump the dead left-right, state-private dialectic and start a new party – a peoples party. A party of, by and for the people.
The Latest Trends in Sustainable Communities
Solutions invited two pioneers in local and regional economic development to discuss new trends in sustainable communities.
Local Food Lab – Permaculture of Community
How can communities take hold of their food destiny? How can people-in-community even understand themselves as part of a food system (a permanent culture) they might care about – and reclaim?
Creating a Cooperative Culture
Mondragón and the Madrid co-ops had some lessons to share about about how to create a culture of democratic participation.
Transition Towns and Beyond: The Ecological Land Co-operative
“Localization stands, at best, at the limits of practical possibility, but it has the decisive argument in its favour that there will be no alternative.”
