Grace Boggs: Reviving the Lost City
Grace Lee Boggs died on Monday, October 5, 2015. We hope that this article, originally published in 2011, helps readers to remember her work.
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Review: The Sea Gypsy Philosopher by Ray Jason
The Sea Gypsy Philosopher is the first title to be released by Club Orlov Press, a small publishing company recently started by beloved peak oil author Dmitry Orlov.
Hannover: City of Possibilities.
Lay out the map of Hannover and the first thing that strikes you is the amount of green space in the city.
What is Wealth?
For a lot of people with money, they have wrapped their identity up in it. That is their narrative.
So What about Beauty?
We can focus on building beautiful places but, as we say here at Strong Towns, financial solvency is a prerequisite to doing good.
A Remarkable Day in Ungersheim, a Village in Transition
I am often asked the question what it might look like if a local government really took Transition by the horns, initiated it, and acted as the catalyst for the community to start a meaningful and impactful Transition process.
A Beacon in the Sand
It is this force, this idea of progress, with which we need to contend.
Sustainable Development: Something New or More of the Same?
For thousands of years we have grown — in population, in energy consumption, in land under cultivation, in bits of data, in economic output.
Reversing the Tide: Cities and Countries are Rebelling Against Water Privatization, and Winning
Private companies have been working to make a profit from water since the 1600s, when the first water companies were established in England and Wales.
Cookin’ Dinner for the Revolution
Our community first began cooking together in Waveland, Mississippi in 2005 just after Hurricane Katrina.
Meet your Neighbors, Change the World
“Houses don’t make neighborhoods – neighbors make neighborhoods,” a friend recently told me.
Whatever Happened to Communitarianism?
Twenty years ago, the concept and label “communitarianism” was riding high, or at least as high as any broadly applicable yet intellectually coherent ideological movement usually ever does in the United States.
