Farmer Startups? How Incubators Are Helping Small, Sustainable Farms Take Off
The fact is, in a food economy that favors the big and industrial, it’s difficult for anyone to successfully start a small, sustainable farm.
Act: Inspiration
Gus Speth: “What We’ve Got to Get Us Through is Each Other”
What we’ve got, mainly, to get us through life, with a maximum of happiness and a minimum of suffering, is each other.
Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save the Economy
My book, Bikenomics: How Bicycling Can Save the Economy, comes out in December, and I’m already getting pushback about the title.
Deep thought headlines
•The Fossil Fuels War
•On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs
•Big Data, Disaster Resilience and Lord of the Rings
•Dreaming of Uncivilisation
Detroit Bankrupt? Six Ways the Motor City Is Thriving
Detroit is a story in progress with many possible endings.
Climate, politics & money – headlines
•Dealing in Doubt: Greenpeace Report Exposes Fossil Fuel Funded Climate Denial Machine •Abbottalypse Now •Naomi Klein: Green groups may be more damaging than climate change deniers •VIEWPOINT: Naomi Klein’s Criticism Of Environmental Groups Missed The Mark •The Fossil Fuels War
Grow Heathrow: here to stay?
Our project was set up by Transition Heathrow…which aims to create a resilient, sustainable space in the community that can survive many generations, survive any shocks or attacks it might face.
What if governments focused on creating great places to live and work?
Governance, on every scale, is not set up to create great places.
An Inside Look At Living In One Of The World’s Most Sustainable Cities
Over 15 years ago, Melbourne mounted a long-term campaign to change the way it uses energy and has attracted international acclaim for its commitment to sustainability.
Divine ultimatum: God’s 12 new commandments on human relationships!
…And you’ll know they’re the right prayers when it doesn’t feel like praying is a separate thing from living. …When you don’t feel those disconnects anymore between what you pray and what you do; between the land, your community, your family, and yourself.
Policies for Shareable Cities: A Sharing Economy Policy Primer for Urban Leaders
This report details 32 specific policy steps that local leaders can take to benefit from the growing sharing economy and support innovations such as carsharing, ridesharing, cohousing, cooperatives, and urban agriculture.
Hide Enomoto on the spread of Transition in Japan
One of the highlights of the Transition movement in Japan is that it has become an antidote to the despair that was widely spreading after the 3/11, the earthquake, tsunami, nuclear disaster, the triple disaster that happened two years ago.
