Rethinking land and relation in Berlin’s struggle for housing justice
What would it mean for us to belong to the city rather than for the city to belong to us? And might changing this framework also change how we organize with our neighbours?
Act: Inspiration
Four scientists, a few small nations, and making unthinkable climate action possible
We have found that among climate scientists and politicians, advocacy for a direct fossil fuel phase-out with adaptation through resource allocation and rationing, is very rare indeed. That’s why we found the Oireachtas hearing so encouraging.
The gas price crisis – in a hole, stop digging, here’s how to climb out…
Collaborating with UK research body Nesta, the Rapid Transition Alliance looked at several cases of successful escape pathways from dependence on gas, with all its pollution and price volatility.
Proudly ‘Made in Prison’: Italian co-ops hire inmates to make food and fashion
‘Made in Italy’ labels are coveted by shoppers internationally – Italy is, after all, a famous creator of fashion and food. Could ‘Made in Carcere’ go global too?
The Global Tapestry of Alternatives: Stories of Resilience, Existence, and Re-Existence
Are we ready to constructively challenge each other, offer active solidarity to each other whenever needed, interweave the initiatives in common actions, and support the conditions for the radical systemic changes we need?
On the lake: Navigating a sense of place
The outcome of the exercise of crafting a sense of place is not just for me, it’s also for the benefit of the larger ecosystem. Or maybe there is no distinction. Considering Gaian wholeness, what is the lake if not an extension of myself?
France | Change Is In Our Hands – Part 2
These paradigm shifts are not always easy. It’s hard work to debunk stereotypes. But the Marion and Benjamin’s determination show us that it can be done.
We Are Not Just Economic Creatures: Dave Kresta’s Vision of Economic Development
Community Economic Development seeks to build long-term capacity in a community for equitable economic activity. Those are all key. There’s capacity, it’s long term and it’s equitable.
Ecology? Look it up! You’re still involved
We cannot solve climate change or other symptoms of overshoot — including global injustices and the lingering threat of more pandemics — without really understanding and feeling deeply the lessons of wilderness, of ecology.
Marketing the planet: The financialization of nature
How did we reach this precarious point in our collective existence, and more importantly, can we craft a clear and secure path out of this mess?
Vanishing crop varieties, permaculture and food forestry benefits, and three sisters gardening
By collaborating with our community members and fellow growers, and sharing a variety of crops throughout the landscape, the diversity of food will expand beyond what we’d be able to manage singlehandedly.
A practical radical politics
Politics is the art of the possible, and politics also is the pursuit of goals that are impossible. We can pursue reforms today, knowing them to be inadequate, with revolutionary aims for tomorrow, knowing that the transformation needed will likely come too late.
