Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Nicole Foss and Laurence Boomert highlight community initiatives that can help people meet basic needs, even as monetary institutions pursue desperation measures. Then, John Michael Greer joins us … to highlight the lack of whole systems thinking in internet visionaries after Seth and Justin discuss the money illusion.
When you do a 10 or 100 or locavore diet, you realize how our current food system is like a stage set for the Okay Corral. Behind those false fronts is a machinery of illusion.
But there is time to imagine potential future scenarios and how we might react to them, to increase our resilience to the large-scale changes to our way of living it will bring, and to prepare ourselves for them (intellectually, emotionally, and capacity-wise that is — for the coming Long Emergency, hoarding assets and building bunkers is not a viable strategy).
Every year, my favorite gift to give (and to get) is a good book.
Signs that Transition 3.0 is beginning to take hold were all around me during my time in Northern California, probably the biggest hot-spot for Transition in North America.
Agricultural biodiversity is the result of a thousand years of interaction between nature and the communities which produce the food that the human race needs for its survival.
Clark and Teachout see three alarming trends occurring in industrial society. Both public resources and governance decisions are moving towards increasing centralization and privatization.
In this webinar, we will learn about options available for local investing, community capital raising, and creatively financing small businesses and social enterprises.
From Britain to the Czech Republic, European nations have been restoring rivers to their natural state — taking down dams, removing levees, and reviving floodplains. For a continent that long viewed rivers as little more than shipping canals and sewers, it is a striking change.
A small organization in the Ginza district of Tokyo has taken a different approach to beekeeping, amassing a large group of volunteers and supporters.
As the local food movement, or…local food movements have taken root in the U.S. during recent years, advocates have discovered the need to express this evolving “locus focus” in new ways.
In a sharing economy, individuals look less to big chain stores to meet their food needs, and look more to each other.
