Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
We have built our society, economy, and belief systems around the benefits and sustainability of economic growth. As further growth endangers our welfare by destroying the earth’s ecology upon which we are dependent, the inability to move away from such growth is truly pathological.
In October, while the US government…shutdown, the global sharing movement ramped up and demonstrated that if we want to get stuff done, we’re going to have to do it ourselves.
Even when they are convinced that agroecological approaches are the way forward, governments, funders and policy makers are challenged by the question of how to move forward.
Time banking, business-to-business currencies, local payment schemes: community currencies such as these are rapidly rising to prominence in the wake of the financial crisis, in Europe and elsewhere.
While in the US recently Richard and I pulled up a chair under a tree in his garden and chatted about his book The Party’s Over.
An increasing number of U.S. school districts are participating in Farm to School programs, reflecting the growing popularity of local foods.
FoodLab Detroit’s new Detroit Kitchen Connect program is experimenting with an innovative new model for kitchen incubation that drastically reduces the cost of operation…
While it doesn’t (necessarily) produce a painting or a piece of sculpture, Placemaking is an art form. It is a collaborative, communal process whereby people create something new, beautiful, vibrant, and useful.
One of the most inspiring Transition initiatives I visited in the US recently was Jamaica Plain New Economy Transition in Boston.
Through creative social enterprise, migrant and refugee women in Britain’s second largest city have found a way to celebrate diversity and speak above and beyond the ‘hostile’ headlines, says Emma Daker.
"..We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine."
Recently, Shareable chatted with Kim O’Donnel, founder of Canning Across America, a collective of cooks, gardeners and food lovers interested in “putting food up.”
