Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Imagine that a group of people works hard to fill their neighborhood with urban farms, bike lanes, parks, murals, community services, and education programs. Next, imagine that those same people are forced to move away. Ouch, that bites.
Resilience is preparedness, and before disaster strikes, we would do well to invest more in the organic movement to build local resilience…
What might education look like in 2040 if it were to be truly Earth-centric?
Sometimes you read a book that helps to crystalize your thinking, not because you agree with it, but because you don’t.
But what I and my neighbors do share is a respect for the land, work, and community and the pleasure that comes from doing for yourself.
Boomers, he said, are “those who pillage and run,” who want “to make a killing and end up on Easy Street,” whereas stickers are “those who settle, and love the life they have made and the place they have made it in.”
I feel inordinately lucky to be able to do this work – despite the fact that it often feels overwhelming or frightening.
The same principle that makes urban devolution so attractive and plausible—that governance is most responsive and responsible when it is as close to the people it serves as possible—can just as easily be applied to even smaller scales of self-government.
Woodcraft Folk members are inspiring individuals giving their energy week after week to educate the next generation of scientists, teachers, artists and activists.
What makes a broad mass of people generally be supportive of speculative public projects like new highways, stadiums, reconditioning the downtown or building an “entertainment district”, sold to the public as “growth”?
At a time of widespread corruption of governments by powerful moneyed interests, we don’t need to give mega-corporations yet another tool to override the will of “we the people.”
With the climate emergency now breaking upon the world, some may wonder whether human society is going to be capable of an effective response.
