What if we read more books?
When was the last time you read a book cover to cover? And if you are still able to do this, do you feel you read in the same way you did, say, 20 years ago?
Act: Inspiration
How a Seattle Neighborhood Confronted Food Insecurity in the Pandemic
Over the past year, more than 20 food supply organizations have contributed in one form or another to providing hot meals to residents through the community center.
Defibrillating democracy
In case you’ve not come across citizens’ assemblies, they are gatherings of people (usually 100-150), selected to be a true snapshot of the place in question (say, a country or city) based on demographic criteria such as gender, age, income and education level.
Resources for a better future: The commons
Autonomy refers to the capacity of a given system to self-manage. In other words, the more autonomy that a commons has, the less dependent it will be on external inputs.
The Right to Remain Silent
It’s just one point of view of one morning of one rebellion, it’s just one drop in the narrative ocean, but my blood ran so cold when I saw the bill recently proposed to further strengthen the police and weaken the people during protests that I had to warm it up again somehow.
The Needful Garden
Our systems do not meet our needs. None of them are designed to do so. It is time to make new systems.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 35 Trae Crowder
Hailing from Celina Tennessee, Trae Crowder is a standup comedian, writer, and self-proclaimed “Liberal Redneck.”
Trae addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?” through his socially aware comedic view…
Climate change and the “law of acceleration”
Acceleration is a common theme in contemporary culture and generally tinged with the connotation of “progress.” But acceleration shows itself to be a two-edged sword when applied to the alarming trends in our climate.
How persistent student organizing forced one of the largest public universities to divest from fossil fuels
Last month, the University of Michigan became the latest to accept the obvious — that investing in the destruction of society is fundamentally counter to the mission of higher education.
A Manchester Boldly United for a More Equal Metropolis
Manchester’s new strategic gameplan comes from a special commission that metro area’s top governing body created last October “to survey the damage done and the inequalities exposed” over the past year and recommend what Manchester can do to transcend those inequalities.
Taking Power in a Crisis: France’s Green Cities
In June 2020, after a drawn-out process punctuated by the peak of the health crisis, Green lists excelled in France’s municipal elections. They are now at the head of the executive in some of France’s largest cities, including Marseille, Lyon, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, and Tours.
Cultivating Food Security with Mini-Gardens
CH’s Mini-Garden project was the perfect solution to reaching those with limited lawn-space and reducing in-person contact during the pandemic.
