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?
Act: Inspiration
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.
The Power of Communicating Stuff
Doing stuff and communicating are the yin and yang energies of every social movement.
A Call to Develop a Worker Cooperative Sector in New York City
Worker co-ops have the potential to address many of the immoral and inefficient shortcomings of capitalist workplaces.
The Free Press Gang
For thousands of years artists and communicators have sung in the day, we’ve sung praises and lullabies, shared stories, and learned, through the art of writing, how to convey our thoughts and feelings across the globe…One of those stories is about the Transition movement…
A locavore’s potluck
We attended a delicious potluck dinner from foods produced around Victoria, Vancouver Island, B.C. Too bad you can’t taste this video — it was a locavore’s delight!
English Pubs as “Assets of Community Value”
So why should investors always have the upper hand in “development” plans when the resource at stake is a beloved building or public space?
Show me the money: Adaptation Finance
Cities and poor people living in cities are often forgotten in climate adaptation planning. How can we fix that?
Permaculture in the Cities – An Interview with Geoff Lawton
You especially need permaculture in a city. It’s even more beneficial in a city than it is in a rural landscape.
Ancient technique lets forests produce timber without killing trees
A prehistoric squirrel, it is said, could have scampered from Norway to Singapore without touching the ground, so dense was the carpet of trees that stretched across the world.
A Passion for Peppers: The Movement to Save New Mexico’s Treasured Chiles
For New Mexicans, chile is more than just a food: it is an icon, a passion, a tradition.
A shorter working week is possible
It was predicted in the 1930 by the economist John Maynard Keynes that thanks to the technological innovations, people in the twenty-first century will not have to work more than 15 hours a week. But here we are in the twenty-first century and many people in the industrialized world are in a hurry all the time and they have very little free time left.
