Commoning and Changemaking
Please accept the invitation made by The Commoner’s Catalog and apply your talents and imagination to the challenges of commoning. We have much to learn from each other and a new world to build!
Act: Inspiration
France | Change Is In Our Hands – Part 1
Marion and Benjamin welcome us in the farm yard with a big smile. Their farm, “Le Buis Sonnant” in Brittany, is a place that quietly questions the current state of farming and how it’s changing. Buying land, succession, sharing of responsibilities… discussion around the hot topics is even-handed and open-minded.
The hour is getting late – our expanded “Surviving the Future: Conversations for our Time” offerings
In these benighted times, I am delighted to be able to offer something wonderful!!
In partnership with Vermont’s Sterling College, the new and expanded ‘Surviving the Future: Conversations for Our Time‘ offering – now featuring three elements, in response to requests from our growing community…
Oxford Real Farming Conference 2022 in review
Our conversations at the ORFC are so valuable, especially as we move forward in a world that sits on a tipping point. We need to share these conversations with people outside our relatively small circle of believers.
There is Unrest in the Urban Forest
The truth is that high urban density and abundant housing are entirely compatible with a lush tree canopy.
How we put out the fire
Like Dante in the inferno, for humanity in the first decades of the 21st century, the only way is through. In The Ministry for the Future, writer Kim Stanley Robinson imagines that path, telling the story of a world that somehow manages to mitigate the worst effects of climate change.
Sand talking: can indigenous wisdom save the world?
if indigenous thinking is truly going to save the world it’ll be a long-haul thing in which people learn or relearn how to become indigenous to their local place in locally specific ways.
Agroecology and Community Feminism: Nurturing Territories
This potential to reproduce collective life is precisely the aspiration of community feminisms, but it is also the aspiration of agroecology!
Educate, Animate, Agitate, and Propagate Transition in a Perilous Century
How might we collaborate to design a highly interactive and creative online learning environment to share, in a popular, accessible format what we have been learning over the 8 years?
Catching the sun: How communities create their own people-powered solar solutions
The following is excepted from To Catch the Sun: Inspiring Stories of Communities Coming Together to Harness Their Own Solar Energy, and How You Can Do It Too! by Lonny Grafman and Dr. Joshua M. Pearce.
Life in a Degrowth Economy and Why You’ll Love It
We can either choose degrowth and actively work towards it, or we choose collapse by continuing with business as usual.
Black Farmers Are Rebuilding Agriculture in Coal Country
Jason Tartt, a farmer in West Virginia, says the Mountain State is fertile territory for honey production and maple and fruit orchards in the flood plains. Tartt, who is Black, sees his role as both developing economic opportunity through farming and supporting other Black farmers in West Virginia.
