Joy Carey explains Bristol’s progressive food culture
Bristol is the first UK city to have its own Food Policy Council. Joy Carey gives us some background on Bristol’s progressive food culture and the Bristol Good Food Plan.
Act: Inspiration
The impact we’re having: Nicola Vernon of Transition Town Greyton
Our mantra is ‘Hands-on, heart engaged’. Whatever we do, it’s interactive or it just doesn’t take.
Making the most of climate change?
Those who follow climate change in the news will know that the latest IPCC report on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability to climate change does not paint a very rosy picture.
IYFF:Muckleshoot Food Sovereignty Initiative promotes community-based tribal food system development
The Muckleshoot Tribe, along with a number of other Puget Sound tribes in Washington, have established a Food Sovereignty Project that has launched about 50 local tribal food system projects within its two year premier.
Five pathways to post-capitalist ‘renaissance’ by a former oil man
In my first post on Leggett’s new book, I focused on his analysis of our "risk blindness." But despite his trenchant and uncompromising stance on the potentially catastrophic consequences of business as usual, Leggett is no doomer.
Blending Local Wool & Community in Valley Ford
For Ariana Strozzi and Casey Mazzucchi, partners in both business and life, ranching has been a lifelong pursuit.
Phyles and the new communalism
An illustrated history of the biggest changes in our time: the globalization of the small and the reemergence of empowered communities.
Can Complementary Currencies Level the Gender Gap in Slums?
Resilience and ingenuity are trademarks of impoverished communities here in Kenya. When we first introduced Bangla-Pesa it had a few ups and downs, but now it is being used in ways we had never imagined.
Who’s looking beyond growth?
Is there a way off the economic escalator?
A Dry Year for Honey
When you think about the necessity of water in agriculture, fruit trees, row crops, and cattle probably come to mind, but you might not think about bees.
The impact we’re having: Stephanie Hofielen of From the Ground Up
Dissatisfied with the limited variety, variable quality and high cost of fresh organic food from our conventional sources, Transition Town Kingston took action.
Reachable Moments: Transition-Interfaith Dialogue
The hundreds of millions of Americans affiliated with organized religion, 40 % of whom self-identify as "conservative," will be as affected as anyone else by accelerated climate change.
