One Man’s Take on “How to Survive the Future”
I’m delighted to be able to share the Foreword I wrote for David Fleming’s book ‘Surviving the Future’, which was selected and edited by the wonderful Shaun Chamberlin.
building resilient communities
Ruling by Little-Known Federal Agency Paves Way for Communities to Say No to Oil-by-Rail
The community of Benicia, [California,] in the crosshairs of history, made one of those decisions that will make a difference for the country. They stood up and said the safety of our communities matters.”
How Communities are using Direct Democracy to Shape City Budgets
“Participatory budgeting is a great process for bringing more voices to the table and providing a more equitable space for those voices to be heard,”…
The Practical Guide to Starting a Legal Cafe is Now Available
In the guide you will learn how to get the basics of your Legal Cafe in place and how to create that unique Legal Cafe experience.
Dark Age America: Review
John Michael Greer’s latest nonfiction book looks at the likely trajectory for North America over the next five centuries.
Strangers Become Family at This Multigenerational Housing Project
The cluster of townhomes and apartments brings together low-income elders and nine adults who have adopted or are in the process of adopting children out of foster care through an organization that provides on-site services and creates a support network for all.
Earthcare Warrior Women
“This is a female moment in time,” observes Rev Dele, founder of the Virginia-based, Soil Souls. “The Earth and society are about to give birth to a new culture. It’s women who give birth to that which is yet unseen.”
At Standing Rock, a Sense of Purpose: “This Is How We Should Be Living”
Here, with a purpose that threads through generations, work, celebration, and activism are a seamless whole.
Placemaking and Health
There is growing evidence showing that place impacts people’s health on multiple scales.
Exploring the Gap Between Business-as-Usual and Utter Doom
As long as we’ve had language—for tens of thousands of years, at last estimate—we’ve been able to formulate the question, “What will tomorrow bring?”
To Monopoly, Reasoned Argument is Lost Amongst Meaningless Cries of Sea Birds
We converse with each other, but to the monopolies, we are a noise – a sea bird colony at nesting time…
Flight Path — On Reading David Fleming’s ‘Surviving the Future’
The man you might not know. And yet if you know anything about the Green Party, Tradable Energy Quotas, the Transition Movement, New Economics Foundation or the Soil Association you would have met his ideas and his vision many times.
