Launching the Grassroots Directory!
The Grassroots Directory is a new source book that aims to showcase the most innovative, practical and exciting community-led projects in the UK.
Society
Retro-modernism
… I’d argue that ecomodernism is retro-modernism – less alive, less open to the changes and possibilities in the world, less modern, than the localism and the ‘folk politics’ that it derides…
Sharing Power: The Crucial Challenge for Sharing Cities
The nature of sharing in the modern world is changing.
A Few Thoughts on Studying the Most Radical Social Movement of the Twenty-first Century
The movements for environmental, climate, and social justice that I have spent my life studying and now participate in must become much stronger than at present. But my reading of world history leads me to believe that they can succeed.
Resilience Roundup – Mar 11
Analysis: What the US-Canada climate deal actually means | Oklahoma Puts Limits on Oil and Gas Wells to Fight Quakes | U.S. Oil Output Headed to Four-Year Low as Shale Boom Wanes…
Introducing ‘International’ – and Some Reflections on Brexit/Bremain
Our theme for the next 2 months is ‘International’. With the Transition movement now being active in over 50 countries, it feels like a good time to pause and reflect on how that is working, what it looks like, and the many wonderful things, and the challenges, that arise from that.
An Evening at La Recyclerie
In which I visit an extraordinary venue in Paris and find myself painted on a window.
Visit McCaskill Street — Forging Community through Resource Sharing
It all started with neighbors meeting to save money and share information around energy, water, food and more. It has grown into shared projects, shared tools and deepened friendships.
Lost in Participation: Land Use Planning Suffers Without Local Knowledge
Reliance on physical, structural measures has dominated public policies and permeated public perception while traditional mitigation knowledge and strategies have declined.
There Is No Other Worthwhile Endeavor: Talking Resilience with Taj James
Whether you’re optimistic or pessimistic, there’s nothing really else to do right now… Whether you think we will succeed or fail in that endeavor, there is no other worthwhile endeavor.
The Coddling of the Capitalist, White-Supremacist, Patriarchal American Mind
To avoid being conned, politically and intellectually, it’s important to examine how a debate is framed and what ideology is advanced by that framing.
Civil discourse leads to positive change; insults do not
Civil discourse isn’t just a better path for living and working together peacefully; it is a better path strategically if we want our ideas to be thoughtfully considered and potentially embraced by others.
