A Pathway to Meaningful Work for Former Inmates
The Compost Cooperative is a worker-owned food scraps pickup service that empowers those who have been incarcerated by providing fulfilling work that allows for agency and economic independence.
Society
Traditional skills help people on the tourism-deprived Pacific Islands survive the pandemic
But our research shows how people are surviving – and in some cases, thriving – in the face of significant loss of income.
This is due in part to their reliance on customary knowledge, systems and practices.
Celebrating the cargo bike revolution: A review of Motherload
The film closes with an image that will tug at the heart-strings of all parents, but particularly those in bicycling families: her twins, who first explored their world from the open-air box of a cargo bike, now pedal away on their own bikes, under their own power, down their own road.
Mobility is NOT a business: Why the pandemic-induced collapse of mass transit should concern us all
Even if the pandemic is brought under control soon, mass transit will be crippled for years to come and may remain in a doom loop even as the rest of society recovers.
Native pipeline foes make inroads across Northern Plains
As Native grassroots water protectors carried on more than a decade of resistance to oil and gas pipeline construction during the first part of December, authorities across the Northern Great Plains responded in kind.
Climate Adaptation in Rural America
The wicked problem of climate adaptation is compounded in rural areas because the people who need to collaborate are distributed far and wide across different organizations and political jurisdictions; no one has overarching authority.
Native youth center, rebounding from double whammy
These practices of relational and cultural connections, while missed, may also be the very reasons MIGIZI can play a unique role in mitigating some of the negative impacts of the coronavirus in the community.
Helping Indigenous Peoples Stay on Their Land
We need more information about where organizations are having success in helping with the central goal – preserving cultures so that they can evolve in the way they wish, so that families will not lose their young to the cities, and watch the incursions of exploitation fill the gaps.
Other species are essential workers, whose economies enfold our own
Our new aim should not be to extract more value from the larger economy that enfolds us, but to find our place within it, as we engage in a meaningful exchange.
Resources for a better future: Work
As Stefania Barca argues, we need to liberate ourselves from work, but also liberate work itself.
Taking on the tech titans: Reclaiming our data commons
What strategies, structures and institutions are needed at national and international levels to confront Big Tech and advance digital justice?
Shifting baselines and coping with planetary change
It is not easy today to take an interest in the future of the planet, and especially in human civilisation, without becoming bewildered.
