Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Mason’s new book, Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere: the New Global Revolutions, surveys activist actions and encampments from Tahrir to Syntagma Square in Athens to Zuccotti Park and finds that each one was driven by a group of overeducated and underemployed young people jacked into technology like no revolutionaries since The Matrix.
The Japanese government is launching a large-scale cleanup of the fields, forests, and villages contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear disaster. But some experts caution that an overly aggressive remediation program could create a host of other environmental problems.
The Occupy movement represents not only a stand against the tyranny of finance capitalism, but also a revival of the role of the commons for a vital civic life. People are once again coming together face-to-face and shoulder-to-shoulder to confront their common challenges and craft new ways to meet them. They are exploring what kind of life they can share with which to create a free, just, sustainable society.
-America Beyond Capitalism: Is It Possible?
-Change money, change the world
-Social enterprise stock market receives funding
-‘Just-in-time’ business models put UK at greater risk in event of disasters, warns thinktank
-How We Got Here With the Economy and How to Get Out
I’ve spent the last couple of weeks immersed in a pile of texts on what actuaries, physicists, and mathematicians have to say about the relationship between the economy and energy. [My homework is a talk I’m giving in Philly at the end of the month at a seminar about architecture and energy.] I haven’t finished the talk yet but I thought, as an exercise, that I’d share with you (and Mr Monti) the ten best writers of my reading list.
– What a Bunch of Farmers Can Teach a Bunch of Occupiers About How to Keep on Going
– What OWS can Learn from South Africa’s United Democratic Front
– Occupy Wall Street and Transformational Strategy
– The Challenge of the Era of Technological Abundance
Fortuna was the Roman goddess of chance and thus entreaties to her were an attempt to insure good luck in any venture….Acknowledging Fortuna means acknowledging that luck is partly responsible for my station in life. It means I’m obliged to help my fellow citizens who’ve been hurt by nothing other than misfortune. And, it means that I’ll be entitled to help if misfortune lays me so low that I cannot get back up without some assistance.
“Farmers need a shitload of support,” says Amy Lounder, an organic farmer who runs Avon River CSA (community-shared, or community-supported, agriculture) in Centre Burlington, N ova Scotia. “And not just financial support but support in a lot of different ways, like support in information, of learning how to problem solve.”
– Hyper-local markets provide big economic boost
– The New Metropolis
– Will the Resilience Movement Help the World Cope With the Resource Crunch?
– Resilience: The Next Big Word for 2012
– The Best of Permaculture Media 2011
“Today we need to combine learning with work, political struggle, community service, and even play.” Those words, painted across the center of a mural on the back of an empty building, in Detroit’s Cass Corridor, come from the school’s namesake, 96-year old philosopher, writer, and activist Grace Lee Boggs.
“In Transition 2.0” is nearly ready to be unveiled to the world! We are very excited about this inspiring reweaving of the Transition story, and want to tell you more about it here, and about how it will be rolled out over the coming months. To get us started, because we are so excited about sharing this with you, here is the film’s trailer, completed just yesterday, directed by Caspar Walsh.
Unlike the plethora of other calls to “Occupy!” specific locations with your presence, the phrase “Occupy Educated” is not a call to Be Somewhere, it’s a call to Be Something.
