The Leap Manifesto: A Call for Caring for the Earth and One Another
Canadian activists and artists call for action.
building resilient communities
Transition Streets National Roll-out Launches!
A project of Transition US, the Transition Streets program provides local groups across the country with tools for implementing powerful, grassroots transformation on a neighborhood level.
Shared Space Aims to Create Safer, More Polite Roads
Shared Space, as such streets are called, is an urban planning alternative that puts everyone in the same space and makes them communicate with each other.
Dispatches From the Edge of Change: Why Montana’s Fossil-Fuel Resistance Gives Me Hope
Indigenous is a quality of mind and a form of culture that does not belong to any one group.
Migrants and Refugees
One of the elements of the Twitter conversation this week, after the body of the three year old Syrian boy Aylan Kurdi was found on a Greek beach, was an attempt to shift the language about the Syrian tragedy and those fleeing it, from “migrants” to “refugees.”
Little Normals
Resilience means seeking out the little normals – the constants in human nature, including the behaviors, institutions, and durable scales, that have stood the test of time – and reengaging with them meaningfully.
Community is Created by Filling the Cup: Talking Resilience with Lynn Benander
I think that if you haven’t built connections with other people when good things are happening, they probably won’t be there when bad things are happening. Community is created by filling the cup that you share with other people…
Creating Livable Spaces
Architect, scientist and author Jana Revedin champions sustainability in architecture and urban development. Her work makes a case for unhurried design and lasting quality.
Social Justice and Climate Justice Movements Merge in New Orleans 10 Years After Hurricane Katrina
Marguerite Doyle Johnston, a resident of New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward, did not take part in the multitude of events surrounding Hurricane Katrina’s 10th anniversary that celebrated the city’s resilience.
Small Town Resilience
Rural communities, with their face-to-face interactions, have provided the template for human existence for the past thousands of years.
Skoros, the ‘Give What You Can, Take What You Need’ Store in Exarchia, Athens
This is a collaborative ethnographic film about Skoros, an anti-consumerist collective in Exarcheia, Athens, that run a space where people could come and give, take, or give and take goods and services without any norms of reciprocity.
From Blight to Opportunity: Detroit Woman Puts Kids to Work in Community Garden
Riet Schumack not only has a heart for gardening and kids, but also for the city she loves and calls home: Detroit.
