Imagination: an antidote to the plague of austerity
"..We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine."
Act: Inspiration
How to Host a Great Canning Session
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.”
1 Year Later, Superstorm Sandy Strengthens Resolve for Community Solutions in Recovery, Rebuilding
Today marks the first anniversary of Superstorm Sandy hitting the New York region, becoming one of the most destructive storms in the nation’s history.
Lessons from Sandy a year later
To mark the anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, Josh Fox is encouraging people to watch his short film on storm cleanup and relief efforts, Occupy Sandy.
What’s the Connection Between Foster Care and the Ecological Stuff?
The fact that we can’t make professional institutions that duplicate the functions of family suggest that there is something about families that cannot be marketed, sold, professionalized or made into cookie cutter product…
Empty Lots, Grand Visions
…the lesson at hand requires us to ask an important question: How do we go about balancing the vertical density that makes any city feel urban with the scenic, spirit-reviving respites that make it feel, well, human?
The REconomy Project takes its first steps in France
“But what does REconomy mean?,” people asked.
Art for Everyone’s Sake
Is art a commons? Or does collective creativity violate the individualistic nature of artists themselves? That’s a topic I’ve explored both in my art and in conversations with artists around the U.S.
Top 10 Policies for a Steady-State Economy
Let’s get specific. Here are ten policies for ending uneconomic growth and moving to a steady-state economy.
London Markets Falling Down?
The irony is that local public markets are what underlie, what grew, and what nurtured the larger global economy.
Can Fracking Showdown on Native Land Help Break Canada’s Cycle of Colonialism?
Over the past several centuries we have been violently dispossessed of most of our land to make room for settlement and resource development.
To boldly train where no trainer has trained before: Taking Transition far and wide
May East is the Transition trainer who reaches the parts that other trainers don’t reach, geographically speaking at least. She has pioneered Transition with rubber-tapping communities
