Community Supported Everything
There’s something powerful about starting where you are, with what you have, with the support of those around you.
Society
Amending Colorado’s Constitution: Do Communities Have the Right to Clean Air and Water?
As voters last week banned fracking in regions from Ohio to Texas to California, Colorado citizens are meanwhile attempting to reclaim their own right to a safe, healthy environment by enacting the Colorado Community Rights amendment to the Colorado Constitution.
Climate Crisis and the Pursuit of Happiness: Reflections on Community Solutions Conference
This last phrase has been sticking out in my mind all day–the pursuit of happiness, especially.
Questions We Should Have Asked about Technology
It is surely time to start exploring and outlining the ingredients of something new and relevant that starts with and is bound by respect for nature, its limits, and its wildlife, as well as people.
Playing the Long Game
The dominant reality we face is one of substantial ongoing political stalemate and decay, and this sets the terms of reference for those serious about long term, more fundamental change.
No cause is an island
As we wring our hands at inaction on a national food security strategy, climate change or biodiversity protection, it’s easy to focus on the timidity of key decision makers in business and government.
Resilience Roundup – Nov 07
A roundup of the news, views and ideas from the main stream press and the blogosphere.
Introducing the Scottish Community Empowerment Bill…
The Community Empowerment Bill needs to be seen as part of a wider portfolio of measures designed to invest local people with more resource and opportunities to have greater control over their communities
6 Ways Americans Voted Against Corporate Power in the Most Expensive Midterm Elections Ever
Deep breaths, everyone. The midterm election didn’t exactly go how many people hoped…Here are six local elections that got us excited.
The protests, occupations and uprisings changing our world
From the Battle of Seattle to Occupy Wall St, a new book revisits the major challenges that grassroots movements face in the pursuit of social change.
The Power of a Plan B
When Hay on Wye was threatened with a new supermarket in what appeared to be a cosy done deal between the local authority and a developer, a group of local people responded with a ‘Plan B For Hay’, bringing together architects, lawyers, designers and campaigners to create an alternative, viable, more popular scheme.
Naomi Klein in conversation about This Changes Everything
A conversation with Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything, and Matt Rothschild, editor of The Progressive.
