Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
During this five-year experiment in the giving economy, the garden has tripled in size. Sharegivers (volunteers) of all ages work in the gardens…No money is exchanged. Materials and labor, and even use of the property, are freely given and showing up in abundance.
•Resilience: how to change to resist change •For Land and Life: 25 stories of Indigenous resilience that you might’ve missed in 2013 •33 cities named to resilient cities network
Six years on, of the four scenarios outlined in Future Scenarios, Holmgren is seeing the Brown Tech scenario as the one currently in play, where the decline of fossil fuels unfolds slowly…
Those who are fighting to save the climate need a new strategy. One such strategy to consider is a global nonviolent law-enforcing insurgency, where citizens take it upon themselves to defend the climate directly and preserve the public trust for generations to come.
A growing number of hospitals are shifting the way they think about protecting and improving health, and taking a closer look at how and where the food they serve is grown.
Detroit was the cradle of Fordist capitalism and the American dream. Then it became their grave. But now, amidst the ruins, something is moving. Is there an end to the city’s decline?
Some communities in Ohio are fed up by the way that corporations, colluding with state legislatures, simply override the concerns of local communities.
Finance, even in its most high-tech formulations, is rooted in ecological systems.
As we in the North approach the winter solstice – traditionally a time of slowing down, contemplation, and letting go of the past year — we are filled with gratitude for so much that we have been given, and only barely awakened to the new possibilities these gifts bestow.
The results of the dialogue I conducted with my garden in 2013 are in. Did my hypotheses bear out? What questions did the garden ask and answer that I didn’t anticipate? You’ll have to read the post to find out!
Richard Heinberg presenting at Universidad Metropolitana (UMET) Puerto Rico.
It’s as if you have a terrible heart attack and surgery, you’ve just come out of intensive care and the doctor says there’s no need to change anything of your previous life, don’t exercise much and keep up your intake of fatty foods!
