Ready for the Revolution
Time for the second egalitarian revolution, don’t you think?
Society
Resilience Roundup – Mar 27
We’re treating soil like dirt. It’s a fatal mistake, as our lives depend on it
Towards the Permacene
We can take the next step in our evolution, a step towards the Permacene.
Announcing AFTERBURN: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels
Afterburn is a book of “greatest hits”, similar in that respect to an earlier book of mine, Peak Everything.
NERT-ing Out with the New England Resilience & Transition Network
On Saturday, March 21, fifty organizers and activists from all six New England states (plus one intrepid Californian) gathered in Keene NH to discuss resilience, Transition, and the future we want to create.
A Day in the Life of America’s Most Walkable Suburb
Suburban life has always been synonymous with long hours in the car– going to work, school, the grocery store, the mall, soccer practice and friends’ homes. Some people even drive to take a walk.
Planet of the Space Bats
As my regular readers know, I’ve been talking for quite a while now here about the speculative bubble that’s built up around the fracking phenomenon, and the catastrophic bust that’s guaranteed to follow so vast and delusional a boom.
This Changes Everything. So Now What?
Missing from the conversation are ideas that are both practical and radical.
Playing for Time: New handbook on Transition and the Arts launches this week!
On Thursday 26th March the long awaited guide to the arts and social change, Playing for Time – Making Art as if the World Mattered will be launched at the Free Word Centre in London.
Wendell Berry on Climate Change: To Save the Future, Live in the Present
All we can do to prepare rightly for tomorrow is to do the right thing today.
“The Creative Response to Climate Change”
Put it this way: we would never actually say "this is climate change". That doesn’t sit comfortably with us at all. We don’t like that bald categorisation of what we do.
From basic income to social dividends: sharing the value of common resources
It’s time to broaden the debate on how to fund a universal basic income by including options for sharing resource rents, which is a model that can be applied internationally to reform unjust economic systems, reduce extreme poverty and protect the global commons.
