The Power of Just Doing Stuff
What would it be like if we all did something?
Act: Inspiration
Learning from Minamata: Creating high-level well-being for local communities in Japan
Today, when people are asked where they come from, they proudly say: From Minamata.
Calgary’s Manhattan Moment
Alberta, always a geography of maximum weather, is now climate change central in Canada due to exponential growth in human communities and all in the path of increasing floods, droughts, fires…
The Good Life Lab: Radical Experiments in Hands-On Living
With no steady income and a small budget of $10,000, Wendy and Mikey made their dream homestread come true by buying an old trailer park and reusing abundant local waste.
Here’s a tasty investment: Grants for Eastern Market, local-food industry will create jobs and bring business diversity to Detroit
Here’s why you should care: Better, locally grown food. Public health. Job creation. Cleaner, safer places to shop.
Canceling the Curve: A Small Town Rightsizing Success Story
PPS often says, ‘We have to stop building transportation through communities and instead build communities through transportation.’
COMMUNITY RESILIENCE CHATS: “Rebuilding the Foodshed” with Philip Ackerman-Leist and Asher Miller
Want to start a community-owned café, solar array, or investment fund but don’t know where to start? Join our Community Resilience Webinars.
Food & agriculture – June 24
-Order Your Chicken Rare: Nearly Lost Breeds Make a Comeback
-Qatar’s Renewable Energy Solution to Middle East Food Security Problem
-New York’s ‘Food Recycling’ Program Could Be The Future Of Waste And Energy
-15 Websites Saving the Environment by Changing the Food System
-Local Foodshed Mapping Tool for New York State
-50,000 Bumblebees die after neonicotinoid pesticide use in Oregon
Bank to the future: a vision of banking in 2020
nef’s new book, Banking 2020: A vision for the future, brings together 12 of the leading voices behind the emerging regulatory architecture and its rules and asks them for their ideas on what to tackle next.
Alternative economics headlines
•House Sharing for Boomer Women Who Would Rather Not Live Alone •Pro-Growth Media Bias Fuels Scientific Ignorance, Finds New Media Watchdog Site •The trouble with billionaires (book review) by Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks •Community Owned Village Shops – report •How a Manchester co-op is getting the food revolution moving
A Tale of Two Initiatives and The Power of Just Doing Stuff
“It is fascinating to hear stories of how Transition is emerging and developing its own identity in some of those countries in southern Europe most impacted by the financial crisis,” writes Hopkins, “Here I’d like to share stories from Coín in Spain and Portalegre in Portugal.”
Density Part 2: Height vs Delight
…“how do we build delightful cities that make us more prosperous, ecological, fit and equitable?”
