Confessions of a climate change denier
I suppose it wasn’t really until I was standing on the west side of Hoboken, New Jersey, in water and oil up to my thigh, that climate change really made sense.
Act: Inspiration
July 2013: Foodishiary Notes from Woody Tasch
Foodishiary. Wait, read that again, slowly: food ish iary.
Tucson shows how green infrastructure can create community resilience
What would happen if every time a roadway was built or renovated, new green infrastructure that added green spaces and soaked up rainwater was also installed? What if every time a new road is planned, we also planned to include lush tree canopies that naturally lower temperatures?
Designer Currencies and Behaviour Change
A delegate to the recent Community Currencies conference in The Hague proposed that changing behaviour should be the ‘fourth function of money’, so it may be timely to explore the implications of this line of thinking a little further.
Joanna Blythman on the Power of “lots and lots of little projects”
There are many socio-economic reasons for supporting local food.
Happiness and the New Simplicity: The Living Room Revolution of Community
For years I’ve talked to people about voluntary simplicity, and for years people have responded with: “What’s that thing you’re involved in—that self-deprivation movement?”
Peasant farmers’ markets in Colombia
How then did Colombian peasant organizations – …win a very good public policy in the capital of Bogotá to promote peasant farmers’ markets?
Mike Small on the Power of When Lots of People Do Stuff
You may feel as though your efforts, working in your local Transition initiative or doing other community resilience work, is just a drop in the ocean. Yet there is a huge power in it, especially when you look at it from the context of what happens when you add all that stuff up.
The Brief, Tragic Reign of Consumerism—and the birth of a happy alternative
You and I consume; we are consumers. The global economy is set up to enable us to do what we innately want to do—buy, use, discard, and buy some more.
City Farming
The ancient practice of agriculture meets modern city as we explore groundbreaking farms in Japan, the US and Norway. Monocle Films visits the people bringing green growth to their thriving metropolises.
Criminalization of food sovereignty defenders: Old and new trends
Recent years have seen a sharp increase in the tendency to persecute, punish and criminalize social protest activities and the legitimate claims of those who promote food sovereignty and defend connected human rights, especially in cases related to large-scale economic investment.
“Non-Indigenous Culture”: Implications of a Historical Anomaly
There has never been a non-indigenous civilization on planet Earth before.
