7 things a Local Entrepreneur Forum can unlock
What can a Local Entrepeneur Forum do for a local Transition group and the surrounding community?
building resilient communities
One Family’s Move From Cohousing to a Smaller, Tighter Community
This is the story of Rebecca Reid, her family, and their decision to move from a cohousing community to a farmhouse.
Climate Democracy for Rural Communities
There is a common misconception that you can’t talk about climate change in rural communities because the issue is considered too polarizing.
An Eco-Village in Palestine
The first Palestinian eco-village is coming to life in Farkha.
Getting Real About Resilience in South Brooklyn
Turning the Tide is helping public housing residents prepare for the next storm—while also making climate disaster less likely.
Retrofitting Suburbia: Communities Innovate Their Way Out of Sprawl
Saddled with traffic congestion and infrastructural erosion, can suburbia be retrofitted into a sustainable model of development and adapt to a post-oil world?
There’s No Place Like Home
Tiny houses in Eugene, Oregon, provide the formerly homeless with a sense of ownership and community.
Introducing Turn 21
Turn21 is a group of committed and concerned citizens of the planet dedicated to preserving the only world we have, here in the 21st Century. Our goal is to educate, inform, and exponentially grow in number those individuals who share this vision in order that we may take action as fast as possible to preserve the planet’s ability to sustain life.
Flying to the US: was it worth it?
What I haven’t yet seen is someone who did fly, writing with hindsight about whether the journey was worthwhile or not.
Habitat Loss
What happens to us as a people when the sources of knowledge are only to be found outside of our communities?
The Alley I Call Home
From one summer to the next, Montreal always gets a little bit greener. Revitalized by citizen initiatives, alleys are trading in their concrete armour for a mantle of greenery.
Worker Co-ops Rebuild the Rockaways
Three years after Casco watched the streets of his neighborhood of Far Rockaway disappear under water, he was on his way to becoming a worker-owner of Peninsula Custom Prints, a screen-printing cooperative.
