Take a street and build a community
How well do you know your neighbours?
Society
Brasilia: From Placeless to Place-Centered
Brasilia is a city that favors efficiency over excitement and compartmentalization over multi-use destinations. By design, it eschews Placemaking.
Reflections on being a ‘Cultural Optimist’ and a month of scaling up
Yes, I’m a Cultural Optimist. I believe that people are capable of doing remarkable things.
A Bargain with the Archdruid
My anomalous position as a writer and speaker on the future of industrial society who holds down a day job as an archdruid has its share of drawbacks, no question, but it also has significant advantages. One of the most important of those is that I don’t have to worry about maintaining a reputation as a serious public figure. That may not sound like an advantage, but believe me, it is one.
Learning from Captain Ahab – two stories of civilization
Chris Hedges and Greg Grandin both call on Melville’s Moby-Dick to bring us commentary on the crisis of our civilization.
Pete Seeger Interview: How Can I Keep from Singing?
Pete Seeger has been a presence in my life since the time I was growing up in the Hudson Valley of New York. My family was among the scores who went to see him perform at a run-down little park on the Hudson with his sloop, the Clearwater, docked nearby. His songs of his love for a polluted, neglected water-way rekindled in people a yearning for connection to the great river.
Sophy Banks on the risks of going for growth, and other ways to make an impact
I would like to encourage the hundreds of leaders, thinkers, do-ers and seekers in our movement to pause from time to time and reflect together on how we understand our true purpose and mission.
Effective Groups: Finding direction
How do we decide where we want to go as a group? What is our vision as group and how does this fit with our purpose? What re some of the common problems with not knowing where we are going and how can we create a culture where we are all pulling together?
Participation Now: patterns, possibilities, politics
The current context is one in which institutional breakdowns, crises, rapid technological change as well as restless variations in patterns of collective identification and belonging are now increasingly intersecting with our everyday lives.
Living Tiny, Finding Community
When we met Logan Smith and Tammy Strobel in A Young Couple Find Freedom in Simple Living, they’d already gotten out of debt and simplified their lives.
Yarrow tea with Rosie
Activism and creativity lie the heart of Transition Initiatives. Most function as inspiration within traditional communities, but some of them also pioneer another way of being.
Now you see me: A glimpse into the Zapatista movement, two decades later
…the Zapatistas aren’t focused on accumulating wealth, but on living with dignity.
