Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Like most facets of our lives, including food, clothing, and jobs, our investments are becoming increasingly abstracted from our day-to-day reality. Very few people have the opportunity to invest in what they can immediately see, feel, touch or taste. The location of our investment dollars is increasingly “elsewhere,” and the sheer velocity with which money moves is mindboggling.
•Fracking Our Food Supply
•Biofuels and the right to food: Time for the US to get its head out of the sand
•Farming the city
•The Non-Controversy Surrounding Local Food
•Restrict developing quality farmland: Farmers Union
Compared to the default method of economic development – which usually involves giving tax breaks to lure an out-of-town corporation – local coops may be one of the best ways to bring quality jobs back to America.
For those who have followed the movement since its early days, the emergence of Occupy Sandy looks less like the endpoint of an erratic and itinerant journey than a necessary step in the ongoing evolution of the Occupy movement.
Could republicanism provide the model for a political economy that belongs to us all and works for the common good?
“Anybody can come through our gates 8 am-10 pm and use all of our facilities. We have hot showers, a telephone, free computers internet-ready, our commons, offices, [and a free store of donated items.] Anybody has access to this.”
What if the vacant lots in Mission Bay were activated into garden and event spaces?
In Extraenvironmentalist #53 we speak with Peter Victor about his book Managing Without Growth: Slower by Design, Not Disaster …Then, we speak with Dave Gardner [85m] about how he’s built a dialogue on the diminishing returns of economic growth with his film Growthbusters…
What I love most about this book is the feeling you get that there is hope: solutions to environmental, social and financial crises do exist, they have been tried and tested all over the planet and all we have to do is get on with it.
We are in the early stages of a great unraveling, an epic collapse of the largest human civilization this planet will ever know. How are we to make sense of it? Maybe this little diagram can help.
I’ve lost count of the number of articles I’ve read about the importance of developing resilience. It’s mentioned all over the web and for good reason, as it’s a critical coping mechanism. Most of those articles however, are directed at developing resilience within the adult population. Seldom, do we talk about how parents can and should create resilience in children, particularly when there are many parents out there who are doing the exact opposite of what’s required.
•Peak Oil? What About Peak Food? A Conversation With Lester Brown
•Revolution in Mexico City, one lettuce at a time
•Chicago’s urban farm district could be the biggest in the nation
•Massive deforestation risks turning Somalia into desert
•These guerrilla cartographers are mapping the edible world
