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.
Arvind Dilawar
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.
The century of limits
We have to assume that we have reached the century of limits, and the current model is no good for us. We have to plan and try to redistribute while reducing our impact.
IPCC report: global emissions must peak by 2025 to keep warming at 1.5°C – we need deeds not words
The report’s conclusion that staying below 2°C this century will only happen if emissions reach net zero by 2050 is well publicised. But there is one, rather more urgent addendum to that: global emissions must peak some time in the middle of this decade. In other words, within the next few years.
California is burning. Again.
If we want to stop the fires, we have to decolonize California.
That decolonization must necessarily include restoring the rights of native people and humbly asking for their guidance.
Musing on “We Need a New Religion”
So I wonder some days, do we need a new religion? Or maybe do we need an old one? Maybe we need one that is not one. Maybe we need to be geologists. To be rooted. To be bound. To know this Earth.
Living Like Perennials
This is what “living like a perennial” should look like: having an attitude of longevity and love that fights back against the consumerism of our age, and against that incessant internal voice that asks, petulantly, “How does this benefit me?”
Leveraging collaboration to tap into the potential of local foods
With farming being the root of the nation’s food supply, former President Barack Obama’s administration launched a federal Local Foods, Local Places (LFLP) program in 2014.
Totem pole travels to unite Native struggles
Natural resource extraction, climate change and “unbridled development” are the main threats to indigenous land, according to Caddo Native Judith LeBlanc, director of the Native Organizers Alliance, sponsor of the Red Road to D.C. project.
