Positive Money
In Extraenvironmentalist #75 we discuss our global systems of money and finance with Ben Dyson of Positive Money UK and Brett Scott author of The Heretic’s Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money.
Act: Inspiration
Ending the era of stale, male and pale economics
Worldly Women Philosophers is an active contribution to the transformation of economics, exploring one significant group that economic history has overlooked – women.
Becoming Home
Born from the thought that maybe, just maybe, we could one day build a house debt free, we had long ago begun a conversation of outside-the-box ideas about what a stepping stone dwelling to that debt free house might be – Sailboat? Cabin? RV?
Of Kale and Capital
The air is cold and the snow is deep, but inside the hoop houses at Green Gardens Community Farm, the greens are growing. Donna McClurkan talks with Trent and Ruthie Thompson about their year-round operation and the slow money that made it possible.
Living with Climate Change: Karen Tracy in Joshua Tree
What does Transition look like in a place with just 4" of rain a year?
Essential Knowledge for Transition: Financial System and Local Investing
The first in a 3-part series of teleseminars on economic transformation by Marco Vangelisti.
Wendell Berry: A Strong Voice For Local Farming and the Land
Wendell Berry wrote about and practiced “sustainable agriculture” long before the term was widely used.
Searching for alternatives: Community-Supported Agriculture
A Community Supported Agriculture project is based on direct person-to-person contact and trust, with no intermediaries or hierarchy.
Paul Kingsnorth on living with climate change
Paul Kingsnorth wrote recently of the floods that have hit the UK, arguing that they represent the beginning of "a gradual, messy, winding-down of everything we once believed we were entitled to".
Swanton Berry Farm: Bringing Justice to the Table
Swanton Berry Farm has been a leader in the sustainable food movement for more than 30 years, pushing boundaries for environmental stewardship as well as social justice.
Mark Shepherd on Restoration Agriculture
Restoration agriculture calls for the re-imagination of agriculture in which perennial systems replace annual plantings and harvests that expire in one season and leave nothing behind except scorched earth, toxic runoff and carbon emissions.
A blow to the NIMBY rhetoric
The recent news about Exxon-Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson’s participation in a lawsuit against the construction of a large water tower near his home and ranch in Texas was extraordinarily symbolic, and could help combat the rhetoric being thrown at opponents of fracking, who are often cast away by industry as being unreasonable “NIMBY’s”: Not In My Back Yard.
