ShareFests: Celebrating an Economy for the People in a City Near You
ShareFests are the perfect opportunity to celebrate the city commons and to connect activists excited to create a sharing city together.
Act: Inspiration
Well-being is about more than lollipops and birdsong
Putting well-being first instead of GDP doesn’t mean you don’t care about people’s living standards – on the contrary, a decent standard of living is a basic prerequisite for a flourishing life.
EcoBricks and Education
It began in Guatemala, and now a South African town is using recycling bottles as building material as part of an inspirational and regenerative campaign against rubbish
Permaculture and the 8 Forms of Capital
How can the permaculture approach can be applied to creating value — aka, capital — across the full spectrum of our lives?
Systems Thinking and the Future of Cities
The idea that nothing exists in isolation−but only as part of a system−has long been embedded in folklore, religious scriptures, and common sense.
Grass, Soil, Hope
“Grass, Soil, Hope is at the same time a challenging book, in that it asks us to reconsider our pessimism about the human engagement with the rest of nature.
How to Increase Public Land Sharing in Austin, Texas
As one of the scarcest resources in urban areas, land holds some of the greatest potential for sharing.
Fermenting the future at Ballymaloe
In a world where everything is becoming increasingly downloadable, food is the last bastion of the tangible, direct, and purely sensory.
A Sacred Reunion: The Colorado River Returns to the Sea
It is the first time in sixteen years that the Colorado River…will have reached its final, natural destination.
Rewriting Economics – what is taught matters
The rewrite of economics is on the move. Student groups from 30 countries (and rising) recently issued a call for a pluralist approach to teaching economics.
Resilience Across Oceans: Helping Hands Linking Japan and Chile
Shared experiences of recovering from earthquakes and tsunamis have spanned oceans and connected communities, deepening their ties and fostering greater resilience.
Harvesting the rainbow
Where most people see compost, Sasha Duerr sees color.
