Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
For more than 10 years, Backbone Campaign has built, painted, sculpted, marched, organized, trained and occupied in the name of “human rights, thriving communities and ecological wellbeing.”
A roundup from Rob about what Transition in Germany is up to these days…
After World War II, white, middle-class Americans flocked to the suburbs from the city. Today, that trend is reversing.
The rich are trapped within a modern version of Plato’s Cage, unable to see the reality of destruction around them.
While the need for thriving parks, playgrounds and recreational facilities in every neighborhood cannot be overstated, public plazas also play a unique role in the lives of children.
I want to review here some of the reasons why I expect an era of crisis to arrive sooner rather than later.
I predict the lineages of people alive 1,000 years from now will count among their ancestors people who transcended today’s collapse mythology and got to the real work of self and community development, inner work and adaptation.
How—and how successfully—are Americans achieving this dream? How has the concept of the “American Dream” shifted over the past 10 years?
I like to think that it’s the sort of place Shakespeare’s ghost visits now and then. Arriving unseen through the thick walls, seating himself at the back and enjoying plays – all manner of plays…
Whatever happened to the 15-M Movement? Where did Occupy go?
Although Transition isn’t party political, it’s a global social movement that seeks to create massive social and economic change.
What is “vivir bien,” and why is it relevant now?
