Light posting from 30 June through 11 July
By Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
Due to editorial holiday, there will be light posting from Thursday, 30 June, through Friday 8 July. Regular posting will resume on Monday, 11 July.
Playing for Time: New handbook on Transition and the Arts launches this week!
By Staff, TFP, Transition Free Press
On Thursday 26th March the long awaited guide to the arts and social change, Playing for Time – Making Art as if the World Mattered will be launched at the Free Word Centre in London.
Building Grassroots Independent Journalism: The Real Media Network
By Charlotte Du Cann, Transition Free Press
In a similar way that UKUncut brought corporate tax dodging to public awareness and the Occupy movement the corrupt banking system, Real Media wants to expose the hyperreal, hostile nature of the press that distorts rather than reports on the reality we live in.
Review: The Art of Fermentation
By Alexis Rowell, Transition Free Press
“Between fresh and rotten,” says Sandor Ellix Katz, “there is a creative space in which some of the most compelling of flavours arise.”
No cause is an island
By Tom Crompton, Transition Free Press
As we wring our hands at inaction on a national food security strategy, climate change or biodiversity protection, it’s easy to focus on the timidity of key decision makers in business and government.
Seeding change
By Warren Draper, Transition Free Press
73% of seed crops are now ‘owned’ by 10 corporations – while community and grassroots initiatives are working to keep global diversity alive.
Our watershed moment
By Alexis Rowell, Transition Free Press
We humans need water for life, we love it for leisure, we make art out of it; yet we also waste it, dirty it, privatise it, use it as a weapon and, most dangerously, stir it up brutally in the form of manmade climate change.
Seedbombing: Applying the Principles of Permaculture to Finance
By Brett Scott, Transition Free Press
Finance, even in its most high-tech formulations, is rooted in ecological systems.
A Tale of Two Initiatives and The Power of Just Doing Stuff
By Staff, TFP, Transition Free Press
“It is fascinating to hear stories of how Transition is emerging and developing its own identity in some of those countries in southern Europe most impacted by the financial crisis,” writes Hopkins, “Here I’d like to share stories from Coín in Spain and Portalegre in Portugal.”