Job Creation and the Sharing Economy
The sharing economy offers enormous potential to create jobs. Sharing leverages a wide variety of resources and lowers barriers to starting small businesses.
Act: Inspiration
Lisbon ShareFest Brings Together the Portuguese Sharing Community
Recently, a team of 16 organizers, including Carla Calado, hosted the Lisbon ShareFest. A gathering of people who organize different sharing projects around Portugal, the event was an opportunity to share resources, tips, information and ideas.
Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition: Food, livelihoods and bridging race & class divides
Economic resilience is multivalent, and JP is full of people with great ideas for building it.
What would a Transition hospital look like?
In many communities, the hospital is one of the largest employers, the largest procurer of food and energy, and a key focal point for many people in the community. What would a Transition hospital look like?
Toward a Future: Permaculture
We use the magic of radio to fly around to garden roof tops in Brooklyn USA, a permaculture fruit farm in Quebec, and small acres restored in Nottingham UK. Buckle up.
‘The Impact of Transition. In numbers’ – a note of caution
Transition is a wonderful melange of conversations, projects, interactions, inspirations, hard work, failures, successes and entirely unexpected events which we are altogether unsure what to make of!
Black Farming, Self Determination and Resilience
Dr. Monica White – through her work on Black farmers and liberation movements – taught me (or reminded me, because it was in my ancestral memory) that there is a very powerful relationship between African Americans and the land that must be remembered.
Soil as Carbon Storehouse: New Weapon in Climate Fight?
New research shows how effective land restoration could play a major role in sequestering CO2 and slowing climate change.
The Sharing Economy: Capitalism’s Last Stand?
Access over ownership. After decades of excessive consumerism, this prospect sounded revolutionary. At first.
Climate action – youth, yes men, and divestment
•Youths Sue U.S. Government Over Climate Inaction •Posing as U.S. Officials, Yes Men Announce Renewable Energy Revolution at Homeland Security Congress •FTSE joins Blackrock to help investors avoid fossil fuels •What’s at Stake in Harvard’s Fossil-Fuel Divestment Debate •’Divest It Like It’s Hot’
The Benefits and Impacts of Cooperatives
Cooperative businesses are community-owned private enterprises that combine consumers with owners, and buyers with sellers in a democratic governance structure.
Rise of the anti-mafia land movement
Leave the gun, take the cannoli’, the iconic quote from The Godfather reflecting the relationship between food and the Mafia that is a continuing reality in Italy.
