Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
In Canada, officials keep close watch on environmental activists | | CO2 removal cannot save the oceans – if we pursue business as usual | ‘We woke up in a desert’ – the water crisis taking hold across Egypt | Even The Saudis Need To Borrow To Survive Oil Price Slump…
In this new millennium marked by the looming threat of transnational trade deals…one unusual trade adventure, Maine Sail Freight will embark on a creative, bold journey as an act of defiance against business-as-usual.
If the best you can offer the voters is a choice between what they have now and something worse, and what they have now is already pretty wretched, you’re not likely to get much traction.
In the North of Paris, the Carton plein association collects, cleans and sells discarded boxes. People in precarious situations recycle, deliver by bike and help move – gaining professional and life skills in the process.
The more you connect with other people the more their resources are in your problem-solving process. We have enough. We have enough together, but nobody has enough by themselves.
We should be trying to identify the strategies that give us the best chances of creating “tipping points” in the climate wars. I dream of a movement that can create a non-linear trajectory into the future… One idea … is a COP21-focused campaign for “Just Climate Futures: Saying No in Paris.” The best “outcome” for the COP would be NO treaty/agreement.
We’re developing the idea that because permaculture’s lessons apply so well in creating dynamic, healthy physical landscapes, they can probably do the same for cultural and social landscapes.
By the example that Opportunity Threads sets, other working people learn new possibilities about how they might end their exploitation and rebuild their lives.
Global Coal Boom Ends As China — And World — Wakes Up To Reality Of Carbon Pollution | It’s not Climate Change – It’s Everything Change | Hillary Clinton has a renewable energy plan, but she still needs one for fossil fuels | Study: We’ve wiped out half the world’s wildlife since 1970 | Against Forgetting…
Warning US and global allies of deepening trends, Maureen Taylor, State Chair of MWRO, often begins presentations on Detroit by proclaiming: “Welcome to the future!”
Over the past 20 years, the existence of common spaces, places of social debate and pretty much everything involving citizenship has been erased in a conscious and ideologically-directed manner.
Cities are thus the Petri dishes in which civilizations ripen their ideas to maturity—and like Petri dishes, they do this by excluding contaminating influences.
