5 ways to achieve circular development on the local level
Put simply: the circular economy means understanding that everything is a resource to be kept in circulation. There is no garbage or waste.
Act: Inspiration
Indigenous Youth Rally Calls on Biden to Cancel Line 3 and Dakota Access Pipelines
In a statement, the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) recognized the importance of Biden’s infrastructure proposal, but said it has a “major oversight: it neither acknowledges nor strengthens tribal sovereignty.”
“The Greatest Purveyor of Violence in the World”
Dr. King warned that “a nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death,” a statement that should ring some bells in April 2021.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 34 Ellen Bass
Ellen Bass is an award-winning poet, author and a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Her poems appear frequently in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, and many other journals. From her view as a poet, Ellen addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Low traffic neighbourhoods: Making fairer, safer, cities
Low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) involve using planters, camera gates, bollards or other measures to restrict motor vehicle use in residential streets.
How These Danish Bees Give Hope to Refugees
Since then—and in the face of rising anti-immigrant sentiment in the European Union over the past decade—Bybi has worked to integrate new arrivals to Copenhagen by taking care of honeybees.
Visionary Inspiration and Practical Strategies for Direct Democracy: “Winds of Change” Book Review
“Winds of Change,” the third part of the trilogy that began with The Dandelion Insurrection, is so rich that I simultaneously want to share it with every visionary changemaker I know…
How to Run a Solarize Program
I get these crazy ideas sometimes. I thought doing a Solarize project (getting solar PV panels put on rooftops) would be a great project for Transition Town Media.
“Them” and “Us”: Shifting Perspective on Responding to the Ecological Emergency
I define the ecological emergency as a phrase that encompasses both the environmental crises of pollution, deforestation, desertification, mass species extinction, and climate change, and also the human attempts to conceptualize this impact.
Green space in cities can bring considerable health benefits for communities, but access is unequal
Compared to affluent white communities, lower-income communities and communities of color are missing out on the advantages urban greenery provides. What does it take to level the playing field?
Katherine Gibson and the Community Economies Research Network
A primary goal of the Community Economies literature is to “decenter” capitalism as the reference point for thinking about alternative economic projects. Why must everything be seen through the normative lens of capitalism?
As temps rise, so do water protector arrests
Spring is bringing the heat to opponents of the Enbridge Line 3 tar-sands oil pipeline, as levels of arrests and citations for demonstrations against the private Canadian infrastructure project rise faster than at any time since construction began on it in December.
