The Art of Hosting – Leadership is Possible from Everywhere
“The art of hosting is an approach to group leadership [which] creates spaces for us to be learning together… co-creating, teaching each other, offering our gifts.”
Society
The End of Employment
Nothing is easier, as the Long Descent begins to pick up speed around us, than giving in to despair—and nothing is more pointless.
Hemp Fiber Crop Research & Development
With the advent of state laws that overturn a sixty-year ban on hemp agriculture, a new and yet anciently rooted era of farming is on the horizon.
New Book Inspires Us to Think Like A Commoner
David Bollier, an award-winning policy strategist and international activist, is out with a new book that explains the rich history and promising future of the commons…
In memoriam: Michael C. Ruppert
Investigative journalist and peak oil activist Michael C. Ruppert died Sunday, April 13, following his Lifeboat Hour radio show.
Mobilizing for the common: some lessons from Italy
What can organizers elsewhere learn from Italy’s movements?
How the marginal cost revolution is aiding the emergence of post-capitalist commons economics
“The capitalist era is passing… not quickly, but inevitably. A new economic paradigm — the Collaborative Commons — is rising in its wake that will transform our way of life."
The Catalytic Effect of Community-led Action
Transition groups and other local community-led initiatives play a key role in engaging with and mobilizing local communities.
Where is the Protest?
Yes, we’re nice people, and yes we have been sapped of our energy. But the main reasons we’re not protesting are deeper and must be targeted directly.
The impact we’re having: Nicola Vernon of Transition Town Greyton
Our mantra is ‘Hands-on, heart engaged’. Whatever we do, it’s interactive or it just doesn’t take.
The Four Industrial Revolutions
What exactly was the industrial revolution? What changed, and what future awaits those changes?
All men become brothers: amidst war, joy at the Odessa Fish Market
In the name of peace in Ukraine, a cool flash mob in the middle of the beloved Privoz Fish Market in Odessa, one of the cultural treasure-houses of Europe, by members of the Odessa Philharmonic and Odessa Opera Chorus in the first cooperatuve project in many years. “There was no need to choose a piece of music," explained conductor Hobart Earle. "Beethoven’s 9th symphony and Schiller’s Ode to Joy are humankind’s hymns for freedom, peace and brotherhood."
