Futureproofing America with a Yardfarming Revolution
So how do we create new jobs, rebuild local economies, bring back local agriculture, and make societies more resilient to climate change and potential disruptions in global food trade?
Erik Assadourian
Sowing Seeds of Strength: Farmers of Color Tell Their Stories
“The chosen story for people of color in agriculture seems to play out on repeat, reducing our agrarian identity to slavery or farm labor and summing up our communities as deserts in need of water and food. But I know our story is so much richer than that.”
Fermenting Change
Revived in workshops and community kitchens, fermentation has become one of the many “reskilling” projects taking place in grassroots cultures from Europe to the United States in response to economic and environmental drivers.
Baltimore Combats Food Deserts with Urban Farming Tax Break
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The Gardens of Plenty
How can people in difficult circumstances build autonomous lives? The answer might be found in the Jardins de Cocagne: by cultivating vegetables.
No Climate Protection without Climate Justice; No Climate Justice without Degrowth
…[T]he…climate movement tends to deny…that renewables are unable to maintain our Western…consumer lifestyles on a global level.
Pitt Students Plan Urban Ag Law Firm in the Iron City
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On the Way to Taking Root
Ecodrom93 enables Roma families in the suburbs of Paris to grow their own vegetables and make a home for themselves in the community.
Despite drought, California is still bottling water for export
An inverted totalitarian position is in direct opposition to the ecological principles that have, in previous years, been part and parcel of the very fabric of California.
Hype, Broken Promises, and Shales
The term shale revolution has been used so much that it almost has no meaning anymore.
Review: The Great Transition – The New Paradigm
Here, I round up what I believe to be the five most significant ‘revolutions’ that constitute the positive components of this phase shift, and whose inexorable evolution and proliferation offer profound opportunities for systemic transformation that benefits humanity, and the planet: information, energy, food, finance and ethics.
Review: The Great Transition – The End of Growth?
We are on the verge of a major tipping point in the way civilization works.
