Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
It’s hard to miss what’s going on in Detroit right now. The city is still struggling, yes, with the recent bankruptcy announcement dominating headlines. But all across the city, Detroiters are seizing the opportunity that only hitting rock bottom can create: that of a total re-working, from root to leaf.
The words “stop buying” barely scratch the surface of what is actually required of us. It is like saying to an alcoholic, “Just stay away from bars”—when he drives by twenty of them on the way home from work each day. No, to challenge the mad machine world we’ve built—and we must challenge it—we have to dig deep.
This tear-choked call to action from Naderev Saño, lead negotiator for the Philippines at the Climate Conference in Doha 2012, is made absolutely heartbreaking by the events of the weekend.
The future of the human species – if there is to be a future – must be radically green, red, black and female.
To understand the predicament of industrial civilization, it’s not enough to grasp the outward shape of the crisis of our time…
There’s an often-told story that the Earth rests on the back of a turtle, and that turtle rests on the back of another, and that on another.
While it doesn’t (necessarily) produce a painting or a piece of sculpture, Placemaking is an art form. It is a collaborative, communal process whereby people create something new, beautiful, vibrant, and useful.
The part that keeps itching at me, days after I read [Naomi] Klein’s article, is the presumption that "mass uprisings" are the only way out of this mess.
The tips and tricks of biking culture in Amsterdam.
Through creative social enterprise, migrant and refugee women in Britain’s second largest city have found a way to celebrate diversity and speak above and beyond the ‘hostile’ headlines, says Emma Daker.
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