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“When people get together, things happen”: Transition Streets hits Australia!

December 15, 2020August 14, 2013 by Rob Hopkins

Transition Streets was initiated by Transition Town Totnes in 2010 and won the 2011 Ashden Award for Behaviour Change.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Society Tags behavior change, Transition Streets Leave a comment

The legacy of the indignados

December 15, 2020August 13, 2013 by Marina Prentoulis

Much has been written about the indignados, what was new about them and what is, or will be, their legacy. It is time to acknowledge that the indignados have redefined how – and where! – we engage in politics.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Society Tags economic justice, indignados, social movements Leave a comment

Starting With the Petunias: LQC Action for Better Public Space

December 15, 2020August 13, 2013 by Saul Golden

I present this story as an example of how effective ‘lighter, quicker, cheaper’ (LQC) urbanism can be in raising awareness and discussion about the places people share.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Society Tags Placemaking, resilient cities Leave a comment

Reflecting the urgency of the climate crisis — a conversation with 350′s Matt Leonard

December 15, 2020August 13, 2013 by Bryan Farrell

Summer has been the season of climate action for the past two years.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Environment Tags 350.org, climate change activism, Summer Heat Leave a comment

A Foodshed View of Resilience

December 15, 2020August 13, 2013 by Philip Ackerman-Leist

“Resilience” may be a somewhat new term in the lexicon of forward-thinkers, but the concept is by no means entirely new, and it has a direct tie to another useful word: “foodshed.”

Categories Act: Inspiration, Food & Water Tags community-based food systems, foodshed, Rebuilding the Foodshed Leave a comment

Getting to the Root of the Problem

December 15, 2020August 13, 2013 by Rob Dietz

Farmland LP is a business born from the “uh-oh moment.” The uh-oh moment arrives when you comprehend just how unsustainable modern society has become.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Food & Water Tags end of growth, relocalization, sustainable agriculture Leave a comment

Creating Cities: Interview with Marcus Westbury of Renew Australia

December 15, 2020August 12, 2013 by Darren Sharp

Renew Australia is a social enterprise designed to catalyse community revitalisation across Australia. In this interview founder Marcus Westbury shares Renew’s vision for creative space activation.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Economy Tags new economy, social enterprise Leave a comment

How do you instruct seven billion people how to relate to the Earth?

December 15, 2020August 12, 2013 by Amy Goodman

"We’re concerned about the future, we’re concerned about the Earth — seven generations hence — and the conduct of people," Oren says. 

Categories Act: Inspiration, Society Tags Fracking, indigenous social movements Leave a comment

‘Breaking the power of the fossil fuel industry is going to be the real key’

December 15, 2020August 12, 2013 by John Wiseman

One point of the campaign is simply to say: these are now rogue industries. We don’t want to be associated with them.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Environment Tags climate change, climate change activism, climate change policy, fossil fuel divestment Leave a comment

Fracking the Commons: Why Your Public Lands Are Under Assault by Oil and Gas Drilling

December 15, 2020August 9, 2013 by Gloria Flora

In the early 2000s, fracking was mostly confined to the Southwest and seemed little more than a crazy, expensive, last-ditch effort to squeeze the last bits of gas out of old fields.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Energy Tags Fracking, public lands development, social activism Leave a comment

Enough to Go Around: The Case for Community Currency

December 15, 2020August 9, 2013 by Dave Pollard

Today, with the global economy massively overextended and teetering on the edge of collapse, many are starting to look again at community-based currencies…

Categories Act: Inspiration, Economy Tags relocalization Leave a comment

Ain’t nobody got time for that

December 15, 2020August 9, 2013 by Charles Marohn

The last thing we did yesterday…is to give this initiative a name. We’re calling it Sandbox, a collaborative platform to strengthen cities, towns and neighborhoods.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Society Tags Strong Towns, urban planning Leave a comment
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