Skillsharing: What’s is all about?
A skillshare is the quintessential Sharing Economy creation.
Act: Inspiration
What climate “injustice” means for poorer communities
While the ecological and infrastructure impacts of climate change are becoming ever more self-evident, what about the social impacts?
On Participatory Economics and What Must Be Done
Gar Alperowitz and Michael Albert compare and contrast their work on democracy, economic justice.
Soil To The Rescue
Could the answer to our environmental problems be under our feet? Interview with Kristin Ohlson, author of The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet
New UN Report Is Cautious On Making Climate Predictions
Batten down the hatches; fill the grain stores; raise the flood defenses. We cannot know exactly what is coming, but it will probably be nasty…
Placemaking in Paris: How Politics Changed the Parisian Landscape
The people of Paris have spoken and they love their public spaces.
Searching for alternatives part 3 – Regional Values in Freiburg
Farmers should not see society as consumers and society should not see farmers only as producers.
The Benefits of Deploying Investment Capital Locally Vs Wall Street
How do we find hope and meaning in a world where the powerful look out for themselves first, second, and always?
Weeds and Black Gold
In 2004, Kathy Voth had an out-of-the-box idea: teach cows to eat weeds.
Seeing our Communities as Thriving Ecosystems: A Permaculture Approach to Community Planning
Our communities are dynamic ecosystems composed of natural resources, brick and mortar infrastructure, and complex social systems that we constantly alter through human actions.
Meat vs Veg: An Energy Perspective
In this essay I’ll present data on the energy intensity of animal- and plant-derived foods and hopefully contribute to a constructive dialog about what we ought to eat and how we ought to be producing it.
Essential Knowledge for Transition: Money and Banking System
The second in a 3-part series of teleseminars on economic transformation. Only a fundamental shift in the design of the monetary and banking systems will allow for a viable way of addressing increasing inequality, the mounting problem of public and private debt and make possible a shift towards a sustainable steady-state economy that works for everybody and is compatible with environmental stewardship.
