Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
“What you doin’?” asked the three-year-old who lives next door.
I was standing on my front porch wielding a paintbrush.
“Finishing my shelves.” I showed him my brush.
“But I don’t smell anything,” his mother said as they went by.
“Hah!” I thought, exactly the point.
The good news is that natural- and social-science experts agree we have lots of solution paths for adaptation or mitigation to avoid catastrophe. The climate choir needs to turn technical data into social information that allows these solution messages to become “me too!” What we need is a bottom-to-top rethink of how we address climate change, starting in a town near you.
Deconstructing Dinner has long been exploring the many ways through which farmers, businesses, organizations and communities are accessing food using new and innovative models. On today’s broadcast we hear more of those examples shared as part of the March 2010 panel – Produce to the People, hosted by the San Francisco based CUESA.
The book is a blood, sweat and tears account of life as an elected eco warrior trying to encourage local government to work with communities to make the world a greener place, packed with great case studies and tips for Transition initiatives and Councils alike.
Central to happiness is having a purpose, making a difference. This is the new dream of the good life: a culture in which we have meaning and connection.
Bolivia’s Living Well proposal means living a sovereign and communal life in harmony with nature, working together for our families and for society, sharing, singing, dancing, producing for the community. It means living a modest life that reduces our addiction to consumption and maintains a balanced production.
– Cooperation Law for a Sharing Economy
– Share Your Stuff
– A safe community where you can save money and resources by sharing stuff
– Ruppert interviews Peak Moment’s Donaldson Oct 10 at 6pm PDT
– Past Peak Oil Travelling Towards Transition Animation
– Pachakuti: Indigenous perspectives, degrowth and ecosocialism
– 7 Steps to Civility this Election Season
– Wake Up Americans: It’s Time to Get Off the Work Treadmill
There are “ignored and undeveloped” spots in every neighborhood in nearly every city in America. These are the places we build around, rush past, overlook, and disdain, until they might as well not exist at all. This is where I’d like to bring the college students who wear polar bear suits on downtown sidewalks, to cajole me into loving the earth by donating money to Greenpeace. I’d like to show them that “the earth”—truly in need of so much love—is not nearly as far away as we think. It is here, right under our busy little feet.
Indigenous movements have inserted concepts like ecosocialist and degrowth into the formal constitutions of the Bolivian and Ecuadorian states. Some call this movement the “Pachakuti”, a term taken from the Quechua “pacha”, meaning time and space or the world, and “kuti”, meaning upheaval or revolution. Put together, Pachakuti can be interpreted to symbolize a re-balancing of the world through a tumultuous turn of events that could be a catastrophe or a renovation.
– Costa Rica will pay the price for cheap fruit
– Farm-to-School’s Teachable Moment
– Ellen Thrives On Pinkerton and Hopkins’ ‘Local Food’
– Haitian Farmers: Growing Strength to Grow Food
– Riding Bikes with the Dutch – Movie Trailer
– Dude, Where’s Your Car? (Hollywood and bicycles)
– Can pop culture push sustainable mobility?
– Why Building a Bike-Safe City Is Key to a Clean Energy Future
– Krugman: Transit economics
