California Passes Bill to Legalize Complementary Currencies
A community without dollars is not a community without wealth – this basic insight lies at the heart of the community resilience movement.
Chris Tittle
Growing the Open Food Revolution
The open food movement has been developing at a pace in recent months through projects like the Australian-based Open Food Network, a free and open source project aimed at supporting diverse food enterprises and making it easy to access local sustainable food.
Co-production: Creating Better Public Services Through Empowerment
The more I found out about co-production, the more excited I became about it, and the more I saw how it could make a big difference…
The Birth of a Freestore
We discussed the idea of a FreeStore several times…Could we provide lived, joyful experiences of alternatives for those not involved in the work of Transition?
11 Affordable Housing Alternatives for City Dwellers
After World War II, white, middle-class Americans flocked to the suburbs from the city. Today, that trend is reversing.
If We Insulate Our Houses, Why Not Our Cooking Pots?
In the early twentieth century, fireless cookers were common additions to western kitchens, similar to the refrigerator or cooking stove.
Will Detroit’s Water be Privatized or Recognized as Commons?
When it comes to a person’s fundamental needs being met – nothing is more basic and human, than to share.
Biourbanism: Rethinking the Science of Space
Biourbanism considers the city as an organism, but in a different way, because we apply some of the latest developments in the life sciences to architecture.
How To Convert a Business into a Worker-owned Cooperative
Coops can be built from scratch, but they can also be created by converting existing businesses into worker-owned cooperatives.
Economy: There Are Many Alternatives
The New Economy Coalition hosted their third annual conference in Boston this June with a packed house of over 650 people.
Public Housing Works: Lessons from Vienna and Singapore
A look at two alternative affordable housing models suggests that a radical rethinking of American housing policy is in order.
A new wave of economic innovation in Seoul
Mayor Park is leading a wave of social innovation in Seoul and opening a new chapter in the city’s history.
