The Other Side of the Global Crisis: Entropy and the Collapse of Civilizations
Eventually, our society (as any other society in history) is a dissipative structure.
Society
A new wave of climate insurgents defines itself as law-enforcers
One in six Americans say they would personally engage in nonviolent civil disobedience against corporate or government activities that make global warming worse.
Beyond Food: Community Gardens as Places of Connection and Empowerment
Because of disputes over land, access to green space, and equal rights to the city, urban gardens have become a symbol of community activism and empowerment…
New Age Farming Is Not About “Going Back” To the Land
All that a contented life requires on these farms is the ability and knowledge to enjoy life without having a lot of money to spend.
Drinking water and Democracy: Tale of Two Cities
The tragic situation in Flint is in many ways a cautionary tale of democracy subverted, one that ties directly to the United States’ refusal to recognize basic human rights such as the right to water.
Transition Streets: Local Government, Renters, and the Magic of Meeting Your Neighbors
A couple of weeks ago, Transition US convened a handful of courageous and inspired community leaders who are implementing Transition Streets in neighborhoods across the US: Sacramento and Berkeley CA; Bozeman, MT; Charlottesville, VA; and the Catskills, NY. We were very excited to hear about their successes and innovations, and wanted to share some of our takeaways with you.
My Personal Burnout Audit
In the same spirit that George Monbiot publishes his ‘Registry of Interests’ showing who pays him to do what, I am going to attempt an honest evaluation… of how I manage balance and burnout in my own life.
Review: The Age of Consequences by Courtney White
White strives to show how small, practical steps like these, rather than ever-more-grandiose advancements in industrial-age technology, are the real answer to meeting the calamities before us.
How Amazon Debases our Language, and How we can Take it Back
As regular readers here will be aware, when left to determine their own futures, local town economies, neighbourhood economies in urban areas, can be ‘fulfilment centres’ in the good meaning of the word, meeting their needs in the round, while doing so with virtually no public funding, and paying their taxes.
Does Goldman-Sachs Care if you Raise Chickens?
“Goldman Sachs doesn’t care if you raise chickens” according to political scientist Jodi Dean, quoted by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams in their recent book, Inventing the Future.
Pope Francis’s Ecological Vision: A Sojourner’s Guide to the Closed World
As remarkable a document as his Encyclical Letter is, even more significant is the reception of the Pope’s ecological manifesto by liberals and progressives around the world.
A Farming Guide to the Political Season
I find that as the years go by, the rhetoric of conservatism and liberalism mean less and less to the life we live. Rhetoric aside, no candidate or party speaks for the rural farms or communities.
