Movements without leaders: What to make of life on an overheating planet
The history we grow up with shapes our sense of reality — it’s hard to shake.
Society
Review: The Blood of the Earth by John Michael Greer
It was as an inquisitive young man during the 1970s that John Michael Greer—now an accomplished author and an indispensable source of wisdom on things both worldly and otherworldly—began to question the world around him.
Civil disobedience as law enforcement
Two years ago I was among more than a thousand people who committed civil disobedience at the White House to oppose the building of the Keystone XL pipeline.
The Ritual Theater of Progress
This habit of drafting my ideas on the future of industrial society right out here in public has its disadvantages, to be sure, but there are benefits as well.
First-Person-Science: Towards a Culture of Poetic Objectivity
For the last 400 years or so science has relied on an “objectivity” provided by rational thinking and measurements.
“When people get together, things happen”: Transition Streets hits Australia!
Transition Streets was initiated by Transition Town Totnes in 2010 and won the 2011 Ashden Award for Behaviour Change.
Dougald Hine on Commoning in the City
The Summer issue of STIR is rich with thoughtful, provocative articles on the commons…
Power, Identity and Social Change as We Enter Degrowth
I want to speak to those who feel…either confounded or bludgeoned and “powerless” facing the intransigence of modern civilization to recognize overshoot and the limits to growth. I speak also to those who have a seemingly contrary reaction: flickers of intrepidness and hope despite recognition of enormous obstacles and dilemmas…
The legacy of the indignados
Much has been written about the indignados, what was new about them and what is, or will be, their legacy. It is time to acknowledge that the indignados have redefined how – and where! – we engage in politics.
Starting With the Petunias: LQC Action for Better Public Space
I present this story as an example of how effective ‘lighter, quicker, cheaper’ (LQC) urbanism can be in raising awareness and discussion about the places people share.
The future of buses
Passengers might be the most under-appreciated factor in how much fuel and money you waste.
How do you instruct seven billion people how to relate to the Earth?
"We’re concerned about the future, we’re concerned about the Earth — seven generations hence — and the conduct of people," Oren says.
