Transition Politics
As a member of Transition City Lancaster I’ve sometimes thought provocatively of starting a Politics Group.
Act: Inspiration
Seeds of the People: Growing Local Knowledge
It’s challenging enough to explain to a five year old child who has spent his or her whole life in the city that a carrot is a taproot and grows in the dirt.
The answer to climate change
While climate change is certainly a fact of the physical world, at its core it’s a social problem, born of our cultural emphasis on consumerism and growth.
The Farm Bill’s “Government Handouts”: Who Really Benefits?
If we are going to be truly resilient, then we must be compassionate about the suffering of those around us, and we must seek ways, both through policy and through our daily individual actions, that will help to rectify this suffering.
Land, apples, and political engagement in Scotland
The community growing movement in Scotland reveals a desire, and an opportunity, for a more profoundly democratic politics.
Cure for Capitalism?
In Extraenvironmentalist #61 we talk about historical economic transitions with professor, economist and author Rick Wolff and his recent book Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism.
The University Unbound: Transforming Higher Education
It is time to consider a redesign of the university system in a way that takes advantage of recent Internet technology developments and addresses some of the social and economic problems surrounding higher education.
Pink pants, red herrings and life’s work (or: More than my job’s worth, part 2)
Well, what if miracles can happen? Trying to help trigger one would be rather an adventure wouldn’t it? Come to think of it, miracles are happening all over the place, right now.
Hearing the call
If you’re reading this, then you are definitely already a member of the largest social movement of human history.
Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation
This book is a creative work of fiction – a ‘utopia of sufficiency’ – which brings to life a simple living community that became isolated on a small island after the collapse of industrial civilisation.
The Next American Revolution Has Already Begun: An Interview With Gar Alperovitz
The coming painful decades may be the prehistory of the next American revolution – and an evolutionary process that transforms the American system, making it both morally meaningful and ecologically sustainable.
EcoChat: Gasland Part II: Courting Controversy, Driving a Movement
Gasland Part II, the highly anticipated anti-fracking documentary sequel, premiered at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival on April 21st.
