Herding Wisdom
Here’s a new twist on an ancient practice: skilled shepherds as ecological doctors!
Act: Inspiration
The struggle to defend La Famantina is forever: how social movements in Argentina are close to changing history
La Rioja, Cordoba and other movements in Argentina are showing, not only how to defend what they have, but also how to transform it together in order to create new ‘commons’ – new spaces that are held and used collectively.
Lonely Mountain Farm
Kenny Baker’s path to farming was an unlikely one.
Researching Transition
One of the most in-depth pieces of research on Transition published recently was Failure and Success of Transition initiatives: a study of the international replication of the Transition movement by Giuseppe Feola and Richard Nunes at the University of Reading.
Why Local Ownership Matters
In this episode, Local Bites interviews Stacy Mitchell of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance to talk about the multiple social, economic and environmental benefits of local business ownership and community-scaled financial institutions.
Hacking the Future of Money
Brett Scott discusses how the Hacker Ethos can be a useful outlook for approaching complexity and help sharing advocates to explore a system, experiment with ways to jam its various components, or to rewire it.
To My Friend the Climate Defeatist: Here’s Why I’m Still In the Fight
What action do we take when we have no guarantee at all that what we do will make any difference?
Time to take ownership of the Anthropocene
Maybe you, too, know that feeling of despair that comes when learning of some catastrophic impact of climate change…
Use Whitewash Instead of Paint for Traditional Look and No Toxins
Whitewashing was used on buildings here in Ireland into the late 20th century, only recently replaced by more dubious alternatives.
Sophy Banks on the impact of Transition Training in Israel and the West Bank
I felt connected to the resilience of the healthy part of us as humans, the part that longs to heal the past and create peace in the present – which is as strong among Israeli activists as it is in this country.
Interview: The Deep Roots of African American Cooperative Economics
Through her extensive research, Jessica Gordon Nembhard chronicles how African Americans used cooperative economic practices to help each other survive and how those practices related to the Black civil rights and economic equality movements.
The Aztecs of Mexico: A Zero Waste Society
While technological innovation is often seen as the answer to modern waste problems, what can we learn from the historical methods used by great ancient societies such as the Aztecs of Mexico?
