Apocalypse 2012: The one-year anniversary of Nothing Happened Day
The modern world has made us more susceptible to superstition in other ways; when we spend most of our time staring at glowing rectangles rather than living in the real world…
Society
Energy Bulletin and Resilience: Behind the scenes of the first 10 years
In 2003 two young Australians, Adam Grubb and Liam Cranley, teamed up to fill a gap in the World Wide Web: solid information on peak oil. Prompted by a suggestion from Richard Heinberg, author of The Party’s Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Society, they imagined a website that would gather all the best information about peak oil and related topics.
Annie Leonard on stuff, “citizen muscle”, and what she’s giving this Christmas
What better way to close our month’s theme than to talk to Annie Leonard, creator of the ‘Story of Stuff’ series of videos, who has done more than anyone to popularise the idea of "stuff"?
Riding the Bike Share Boom
Without a doubt, 2013 has been a banner year for bike-share in the United States. Major systems were implemented in New York City and Chicago, and many others debuted or expanded in other cities. In fact, Citi Bike users have biked over 10 million miles and the system is closing in on 100,000 annual members!
Victims no longer: Spain’s anti-eviction movement
For over four years, the Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH) have responded to a national housing crisis through grassroots organising and direct action. To this day the movement has prevented over 800 evictions across the country. Here Carlos Delclós interviews PAH activist Elvi Mármol.
Getting the Most Out of Christmas
Here’s a question: how many second gifts do you remember from your childhood Christmases? How many third or fourth gifts?
An Old Kind of Science
The attempt to conquer nature—in less metaphorical terms, to render the nonhuman world completely transparent to the human intellect and just as completely subject to the human will—was industrial civilization’s defining project.
Resilience headlines
•Resilience: how to change to resist change •For Land and Life: 25 stories of Indigenous resilience that you might’ve missed in 2013 •33 cities named to resilient cities network
Crash on Demand: David Holmgren updates his Future Scenarios: Review
Six years on, of the four scenarios outlined in Future Scenarios, Holmgren is seeing the Brown Tech scenario as the one currently in play, where the decline of fossil fuels unfolds slowly…
A New Movement for Community Self-Determination
Some communities in Ohio are fed up by the way that corporations, colluding with state legislatures, simply override the concerns of local communities.
High Speed Trains are Killing the European Railway Network
High speed rail is destroying the most valuable alternative to the airplane; the "low speed" rail network that has been in service for decades.
The Farm: Where we have come from and our plans for the future
As we in the North approach the winter solstice – traditionally a time of slowing down, contemplation, and letting go of the past year — we are filled with gratitude for so much that we have been given, and only barely awakened to the new possibilities these gifts bestow.
