Canada Throws Out Half the Food It Produces. What If We Ate It Instead?
To wrap up this series on accessing fresh, affordable food in an urban setting I’m focusing on food waste. Could we eat better by changing what we consider “waste”?
Michelle Gamage
Monbiotic Man
The imperative is not to stop farming, but to phase out fossil fuels very quickly. Cavalier polemics that cast primary responsibility for our predicament elsewhere are a dangerous diversion.
Kris De Decker: “Low Tech: What, Why and How”
How does low tech differ from high tech and what does it feel like to live a low tech lifestyle?
Our Research Shows That Big Oil’s Plans for Combating Climate Crisis Are Bunk
Influential oil company scenarios for combating climate change don’t actually meet the Paris Agreement goals, our new analysis shows.
From waterworks to wild water park in community hands
From a historic waterworks into a place for urban wild swimming, a community group in East London wants to buy up and rewild more than five hectares of concrete into a ‘brownfield rainforest’.
Rural Europe Takes Action | CSA and the Building of a Food Commons
Community Supported Agriculure (CSA) can transform the way producers and consumers relate to food as a local commons.
It’s time for a more nuanced discussion around Science, Technology, and Innovation in degrowth
It is clear that degrowth neither represents a return to the stone age, nor can it fetishize technological solutions to the climate crisis.
Democracy Rising 25: Young Children as Classroom Citizens
All of the participating teachers agreed that their understanding of citizenship changed from one that emphasized following rules and helping others to one that fostered student engagement in making decisions together about shared problems in the classroom community and beyond.
If You Want People to Use Public Transit, Connect the Places Where People Want to Walk
In a nutshell, many American transit systems are underused not because the cities they serve are too small, but because the places they stop at are places people don’t want to be on foot.
Why climate activists need to celebrate — even if we’re not feeling like it
So, after all this, I am going to organize a little party to teach what we won, honor what’s good that we like and commit to continue on the struggle. I hope you’ll join me with your own form of celebrating, too.
Rapid transition to beat the heat: Community Resilience
Under the right conditions society, with all its structures and systems, can change as rapidly as the mercury in the thermometers is rising.
Bean Week
And that was bean week. All in all, there are worse ways to spend your days!
