Living with Climate Change: Joanne Poyourow in Los Angeles
No water. That pretty much sums up living with climate change around here, in Los Angeles.
Act: Inspiration
Gardening for peanuts
If you have a long enough season, consider growing peanuts. Here’s how I grew, dried, and roasted last year’s crop.
The FLOK Society Vision of a Post-Capitalist Economy
FLOK Society is a government-sponsored project to imagine how Ecuador might make a strategic transition to a workable post-capitalist knowledge economy.
Food Co-ops, Food Hubs, and Food Democracy: Part 2
Food politics is often a major news story these days, so I would dispute the generalization that most consumers do not see food as political.
Agriculture in a Changing World
"Agriculture is the oldest environmental problem," the Land Institute’s Wes Jackson tells us early in this 27-minute video.
Guilt and the sport of buying local
It’s frightening to me how quickly the places and people that I love downtown could be out of business.
Whose money is it?
Money is currently produced by a ‘public-private partnership’ between the state and the financial sector, a partnership whose nature remains obscure to the great majority of the population.
An ethical Altcoin?
For the first time* an altcoin, Auroracoin, has designed-in a predistribution (via premining) of currency. This article sets out a draft vision of how an altcoin that is designed to give priority to positive aspects of living neglected by the financialised economy might operate.
Shared Spaces and Slow Zones: Comparing Public Space in Paris and New York
Everyday, high-density global cities are home to millions of pedestrians in their streets. Paradoxically though, many streets and transportation policies continue to place more space and importance on cars rather than people.
In.gredients – possibly the coolest grocery store ever
I’ve been dying to visit In.gredients since before the store even opened for business, and I profiled the company in my book Plastic-Free based on a telephone interview and articles I had read about a new packaging-free grocery store opening up in Austin, TX.
The Story of the Bristol Pound
What would it be like if we did a local currency at scale, across a whole city? What would it be like if we had an electronic means of exchange as well as a paper currency?
The Open Food Foundation
The Open Food Foundation has been established to accumulate and protect a commons of open source knowledge, code, applications and platforms to support the proliferation of fair and sustainable food systems in Australia and beyond.
