Fermentation as Metaphor: Excerpt
By Sandor Katz, Resilience.org
The only thing that makes do-it-yourself fermentation radical is context: our contemporary system of food mass production, which is unsustainable in so many ways.
Tag: Activism
Surviving the Future: Conversations for Our Time
By Shaun Chamberlin, Dark Optimism
Starting Monday April 6 I will be leading an online course "Surviving the Future: Conversations for Our Time" alongside Sterling College’s delightful Philip Ackerman-Leist, joined by Kate, Rob and further stars of The Sequel, as well as other compelling, internationally-renowned guests including Nate Hagens, Helena Norberg-Hodge and Richard Heinberg.
How Movements Can Use Drama to Seize the Public Imagination
By George Lakey, Waging Nonviolence
Drama is useful in getting attention for our issues. The Sunrise Movement is only one of the recent movements that grew by seizing the public imagination through drama.
Activism in the Anthropocene
By Kevin Buckland, Transition Network
Look out the window, see the air between your eyes and the horizon. This is the Anthropocene – a new geological age characterized by the critical impacts of human activities on the Earth’s systems. Every word you will ever speak will be articulated using this changed air. The Anthropocene can be understood not as an issue but a context: it is the world we do and will, from now on, inhabit...
Craftivism and the Imagination
By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog
Craftivism was coined in 2003 by Betsy Greer. I always say Craftivism is like punk music. Under that punk umbrella label you’ve got the Talking Heads, the Ramones, the Sex Pistols and the Clash, and they all sound completely different but they’re all under that banner. So you could say Craftivism is anything that links craft with activism.
The Four Levels: New Story Activism & Burnout
By Marie Goodwin, Transition US
I've learned first hand about what activism burn out feels like.
Fifteen years of community-controlled water in Bolivia
By Marina Sitrin, ROAR Magazine
Important lessons can and should be learned in our struggles to defend the land and commons from what took place and continues to take place in Bolivia.
Want to Change the Future? Pay Attention to the Past.
By Peter Dykstra, Ensia
From Mandela to MLK to McKibben, history offers lessons aplenty for climate activists
The Rise of the Insurrectionary Imagination
By Rob Hopkins, Transition Culture
The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination....is a collective which..."aims at opening spaces...and bringing artists and activists together to...co-create more creative forms of ...civil disobedience".
In your face – 19 Feb
By Bart Anderson, Resilience
Why I'm a hypocrite / Orlov: Extinct—Extincter—Extinctest / Big Ag’s Fight for Twitter Credibility
Heft Notes: Naomi Klein’s “This Changes Everything”
By Paul Heft, Resilience.org
Detailed summary of this important new book on how to combat climate change.
Weathering the Storms, Planting the Seeds
By Aaron Lehmer-Chang, World Shift Vision
Fundamentally, we have to “hospice what’s left of the system we’re leaving behind, while planting the seeds for the future we’re building.”