Realism, Utopia and E-communitarianism
We make that vision our own in our proposal for Eco-communitarianism, a post-capitalist utopian order that, never fully achievable, nonetheless operates as a guiding star for daily action.
Sirio López Velasco
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 52 Douglas Rushkoff
Douglas Rushkoff is an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. Rushkoff’s work explores how different technological environments change our relationship to narrative, money, power, and one another. He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Robbing the soil, 1: Commons and classes before capitalism
Between the decline of feudalism and the rise of industrial capitalism, rural society was transformed by the complex of processes that are collectively known as enclosure.
Fighting Fire with Fire?: Reviews
These are two very different books but with much in common. Both are concerned with how to respond to the climate and ecological emergency. Jonathan Neale’s (JN) focus is on the global level, while that of Mathew Lawrence and Laurie Laybourn-Langton (L&L-L) is primarily on the UK.
Why Mutualism and not Communism?
Mutualism is a radically decentralized market-based form of socialism. In a mutualist economy, corporations do not exist, businesses are owned collectively by the people who work in them, and public services (water, power, internet, etc) are owned by the communities they serve.
Everyone has a role to play in stopping the Line 3 pipeline
When sociologist Bill Moyer studied successful social change movements, he found that four roles showed up over and over again: helpers, advocates, organizers and rebels…
Confronting neoliberalism with feminist climate justice
The feminist approach to climate justice therefore demands that governments, civil society, private sector, environmentalists should address the causes and effects of climate change, not as a single issue, but in recognition of the full spectrum of the numerous challenges that communities face
For farmers, by farmers: an interview with GrownBy’s Lindsey Lusher Shute
Launched in early 2021, GrownBy allows users to find farms in their area, order products, and sign up for Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) plans.
To Boldly Go… Where Few Have Imagined
The point is: the prophet’s vision is a harder sell than the glitzy wizardly version of the future. Thus, we need more attempts to imagine that world.
A Rapid Transition is underway – but will it happen fast enough?
CAT began life as an off-grid test-bed community for experimenting with alternative types of technology and lifestyles in response to the 1970s oil crisis and an emerging concern about the environmental impacts of how we lived.
Victor Toledo: From Capitalism to ‘Buen Vivir’
To seek good living is to adopt an ethic of the collective, communality, solidarity and mutual aid, in which the behavior of the individual is marked by the values of balance with himself, with others, with nature and with immanence or cosmic essence.
Q&A: Will England’s National Food Strategy help tackle climate change?
Last week, part two of England’s National Food Strategy (NFS) was published, providing a broad overview of the state of the “food system” – an all-encompassing term that covers the production, processing, transport and consumption of food – in England.
