Before President Trump, fetch wood, carry water. After President Trump, fetch wood, carry water.
Perhaps it is the enabling of imagination that is one of the most important things we do in Transition.
building resilient communities
Whether Trump or Clinton Wins the US Election, What Follows Is Up To Us
‘A politician is not a given. Each one is in part what we make them, by pushing, blocking, pressuring, encouraging, fighting, reframing, emphasizing, organizing.’
A Turning Point at Standing Rock?
“The battle at Oceti Sakowin is deeper than the pipeline. It’s about how we are to redefine our leadership and how we rebuild community and how we love and have compassion for each other and Mother Earth and all the people who come to support — that’s what all this means.”
10 essential ingredients of a ‘Good Brexit’
It is increasingly clear that ‘taking back control’ looks likely to mean nothing of the sort.
A Roof, a Skill, a Market: The Multiple Dimensions of Scale
The Nubian Vault Association has evolved a quite different approach: the long-term, muti-dimensional cultivation of living local economies based on three kinds of value: a roof, a skill, and a market.
The Case for “Disruptive Normality”
How should we prevent the social potential of sharing practices from being neutralized by the power of the neoliberal ideas and economy?
Mexico’s Indigenous Groups Start Telecom Co-op after Being Refused Service
The licenses enable members of the Mixe, Mixteco, and Zapoteco communities to form their own cooperatively-owned mobile cellular telephone network allowing 356 municipalities in the states of Chiapas, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Puebla, and Veracruz access to mobile services and the Internet.
I Saw the Revolution in So Many of the Small Places We Call Home
Only by working together in the places we call home can we overcome isolation, embrace our differences, confront the extractive economy, and create the sort of world that will work for all of us.
The Big Potential of Little Free Libraries
A free community book exchange launches the Little Free Library movement—with 40,000 locations in 70 countries worldwide.
For Hallowe’en This Year, I’m Dressing as the Economy
As my friend David Fleming once wrote, conventional economics ‘puts the grim into reality.’
On Standing Rock and the Ballot Box
Though it may sound like a cliché, real change rests on our shoulders as citizens, community members, and even as consumers.
Amatrice Regeneration – Rebuilding Resilience after the Central Italy Earthquake
It’s just in the back of our heads, that by building resilience we are also preparing for disaster.
