Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
…industrial agriculture is not more efficient at producing food, it’s more efficient at eliminating farmers. If the goal isn’t to pull people off the land but to produce the most food, then small-scale, locally-adapted, diversified farms are the way to go.
This video, made by local young filmmaker Nicholas Ryan-Purcell, was produced for a presentation being made at the International Awards for Liveable Communities 2013 (The LivCom Awards) in Xiamen, China at the 29th of November.
First, I’ll explore the notion that we are living in a ‘desert of the real’. Second, I’ll look at what the desert of the real has meant for environmental communications. And thirdly, to conclude, I will explore alternative ways of knowing and being in the world – and ask what these might mean for design.
Farmer-philosopher Wendell Berry defines economy this way: “I mean not economics but economy, the making of the human household upon the earth; the arts of adapting kindly the many, many human households to the earth’s many eco-systems and human neighborhoods.”
Grow Appalachia is changing the way people throughout rural Appalachia relate to food.
"Antifragile" is a word you can’t find in the dictionary. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author and student of probability and risk, coined the word because, after looking at languages across the world, he could not find a word which describes the ability to improve with stress rather than merely resist it as the word "resilient" implies.
Despite extremely negative circumstances, the Basque People have been able to implement a significant process of positive socio-economic transformation. How was this achieved?
My vision is to give purpose to a vacant lot.
This article attempts to explore the nature of a Preferenced Domain – what exactly we might want to preference and why – and to apply the concept to smaller and larger economies and to non-geographic domains.
I’ve been thinking a lot in the past months about the question of sustainability in the long and short term – not of our society, or the planet but of people and groups within the Transition movement itself.
Felicity Lawrence is a food writer and Guardian investigative journalist. When it comes to understanding the dark side of how the food industry works, she is the place to turn…
Regenerative practices can feed the world, and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
