Tim Jackson and the Quest for Post Growth
Ecological economist Tim Jackson is one of the few serious scholars trying to imagine what a post-growth world might look like.
Act: Inspiration
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 51 Dany Sigwalt
Dany Sigwalt, Executive Director at Power Shift Network, has spent much of her career moving between movement building and youth leadership development, working to marry the two into one cohesive strategic reality. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Food and farming reads of 2021
We share some of the most interesting reads from the past year, on everything from toxic weedkillers to bringing back beavers.
Preserving a people’s history through quilts
Though the AIDS Memorial Quilt is the most famous example, quilts have been utilized as a medium for protest, storytelling and preserving a people’s version of history for centuries.
Mandela Day 2021
The Mandela Day has inspired me to reflect on two things: the importance of collective leadership and the need to heal from the traumas of our history.
Citizens’ assemblies and independent politics
The second alternative that is widening the boundaries of democracy is even more transformative, which does not exclude participatory processes such as the Citizens’ Assembly, on the contrary, it is nourished by them, which is the rise of independent politics.
The Transformative Cities People’s Choice Award and the Atlas Of Utopias
The Transformative Cities People´s Choice Award and the Atlas of Utopias are intended as a process and a tool to give greater visibility and resources to local practices that preconfigure post-capitalism, thus facilitating its spread and prosperity.
Collective Farming, Community and Connection
In France, collective farms are quite common (known as a Groupement Agricole d’Exploitation en Commun, or GAEC). Social issues on the farm are central to farming in a collective set-up. But these farmers are also keen to look beyond the farm to build community and connection.
Review – The Shadow of the Mine: Coal and the End of Industrial Britain
The Shadow of the Mine about the long history, a serious piece of writing that assesses the political, cultural and social ramifications of deindustrialisation in South Wales and County Durham.
Some comments on Rutger Bregman’s book Human Kind
What a marvellous book! A powerful refutation of one of the most deeply entrenched and mistaken assumptions built into our taken-for-granted world view, and thus leading to many wrong-headed practices.
Building Tenant Power with the Housing Justice for All Coalition
To end the boom-and-bust cycle of distressed real estate, the proliferation of private equity landlords, rent increases, tenant displacement, and homelessness, the Housing Justice for All Coalition formed.
Lugh’s Blessing
We have a need of skills. We are too much enamored of the tools we’ve made. We believe these tools have freed us from hard labor, hand labor, back labor; but it seems to me that we are working harder than ever.
