The Largest Seed Exchange in the World Inspires Change
Ethical consumers in the US are increasingly concerned with the seeds used in the production of their food
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Why Cities Can (and Should) Lead the Sustainable Consumption Movement
Cities may be our best hope for making meaningful progress in the area of sustainability.
Can a Complementary Currency Help End Poverty?
A Q&A with John Boik founder of the Principled Societies Project and author of the book Economic Direct Democracy: A Framework to End Poverty and Maximize Well-Being.
Owning is the New Sharing
People are tired of seeing their communities treated like commodities, and they’re looking for ways to build platforms of their own.
SELC Celebrates Victories and Launches Seed Library Campaign
Now in its fifth year, SELC is a driving force for the new economy, doing pioneering work around worker cooperatives, home-based food businesses, alternative currencies, legal guides for sharing, legal apprenticeships, accessible legal cafes, renewable energy, the commons, seed libraries and more.
Open Sauce / Source for the Food Revolution
In opposition to corporate control and intellectual property, we need systems and processes which emphasize sharing and collaboration for food systems work.
How to Start a Bike Kitchen
A bike kitchen is a place for people to repair their bikes, learn safe cycling, make bicycling more accessible, build community, and support sustainable transportation by getting more people on bikes.
Community Supported Everything
There’s something powerful about starting where you are, with what you have, with the support of those around you.
Creating Regional Resilience in New England
While Transition and other grassroots groups focus on the vital task of local resiliency, it is becoming clear to many of us that the demands of our time, and the transition now unfolding, also require us to think regionally.
“Communities with Cooperatives, not Communities of Cooperatives”
The idea of Las Indias is that it is a community with cooperative businesses, not a community of cooperatives.
Falling Fruit: Mapping Free Food Around the World
Today, Falling Fruit is the world’s largest foraging map, and the only one (to my knowledge) to be fully open source and open data.
The Rise of Multi-Stakeholder Cooperatives
While the growth of cooperatives in a wide variety of industries is promising, the bar for social transformation needs to be, and has been, raised.
