Shared Space Aims to Create Safer, More Polite Roads
Shared Space, as such streets are called, is an urban planning alternative that puts everyone in the same space and makes them communicate with each other.
Society
Retrotopia: A Cab Ride in Toledo
Just past the trees, where I’d expected to see cabs waiting for passengers in a cloud of exhaust, horses stood placidly in front of brightly colored—buggies? Carriages?
Transition in Australia: an open letter to Transitioners
The outcomes of our work are uncertain, but the way we approach Transition in each moment will contribute to the quality and nature of the outcomes.
Refugees are Welcome Here – Seize the Moment!
Compassion for refugees is spreading across Europe. Could it lead to a saner ‘open borders’ policy?
The Permaculture City: Cities as Complex Systems
The general “messiness” of cities has been irritating urban theorists and planners for centuries, but it wasn’t until recently that urbanists truly understood that it is just that messiness that gives cities their life.
Why Free Money Day Makes You Richer
In a world where hoarding wealth is considered the norm, giving money to complete strangers, with no strings attached, seems like a radical idea.
Why the climate movement needs to move beyond the ‘big tent’
Unfortunately, a lot of the time the big tent feels a little too much like it’s just throwing a big sheet over already existing divisions and inequality across and within movements.
Migrants and Refugees
One of the elements of the Twitter conversation this week, after the body of the three year old Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi was found on a Greek beach, was an attempt to shift the language about the Syrian tragedy and those fleeing it, from “migrants” to “refugees.”
Connecting over Soil
Most people know that there’s a huge wealth gap between the industrialized and so-called ‘developing’ worlds. But there’s another gap, one that’s rarely discussed in the media, or even by NGOs. It involves changing attitudes to farming, to the land and the soil.
Fairness in Transition
What is Fairness? Could we agree on a definition? And is it something that’s learnt or instinctive?
Resilience Roundup – Sep 4
Will California redouble its push for clean energy? It all rides on this upcoming vote. | How Extreme Energy Leads to Extreme Politics | New Study Shows How Climate Change Is Already Reshaping The Earth | The Refugee Crisis That Isn’t…
What Goes Around Comes Around at the Bicycle ReCyclery
ReCyclery founder Chauncey Tudhope-Locklear and Board President Kees Kolff explain how opportunities exploded when the Recylery became a non-profit organization.
