Creating Local Community Resilience to Avoid Climate Catastrophe
The accelerating climate crisis requires massive mobilization of populations to take back control of our lives through resistance, replacement, and resilience.
building resilient communities
Learning From the Past in Kensal and Kilburn
Oral histories have been something that has fascinated the Transition movement since the outset.
A Healthy Way to Build Communities
Mark Winne, an author and anti-hunger activist, often says that the most important word in “community garden” isn’t “garden.” I saw this firsthand not long ago.
Fumbling towards Independence
A more independent life need not be a distant redoubt to purchase but an ideal to fumble toward — in small steps, with help, in ways that are fulfilling and not overly complicated.
Six Foundations – Presentation to Community Action Partnership
American towns and cities face a series of economic, environmental, and social justice challenges that hit the most disadvantaged communities especially hard.
Placemaking and the Human Scale City
everyone has the right to live in a human scale city, and one way to achieve this is through placemaking
Are Positive Stories Enough?
In a world filled with melting ice caps, war, species extinctions, and economic peril, how can I possibly argue that the small-scale actions I write about can transform the bigger picture for the better?
Your Basic Essentials
More than a hundred years of consumer capitalism and the free labor of fossil fuels have left most of us ill-equipped to contemplate the essentials of life and the value of work.
Weather that Reminds us to Give Thanks
Our better angels – our logical analysis of problems, our compassionate desire to help others – are forever warped by the gravitational pull of our primate drive to make ourselves look good….
Paris: the Untold Story
This is a report about COP21 that didn’t make the headlines…
For a Resilient Future, Put Community First
Both The Transition Towns (Transition) and Intentional Communities movements facilitate secession, to varying degrees, from the exploitive culture that surrounds us, and build alternatives that are supported by broad networks.
Filming the Change in New Zealand
As this year wraps up and the footage for our feature-length documentary, A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity, goes away to the editor, I’m planning a trip to New Zealand to make a series of short films about all kinds of inspiring people and projects.
