Seattle Community Farm: Growing Veggies for the Neighborhood
The veggies all go to people who have a hard time affording fresh vegetables.
building resilient communities
Barcelona en Comú: the City as Horizon for Radical Democracy
…there is a new cycle of struggles for democratic governance unfolding at the level of the city.
Reimagining Our Streets as Places: From Transit Routes to Community Roots
Streets are our most fundamental shared public spaces, but they are also one of the most contested and overlooked.
Don’t Come Back In Until Dinner
Understanding our land begins with engagement, even if it is just a kid rambling along on an idle afternoon across a pasture and a wooded hill.
In Kenya’s Mountain Forests, A New Path to Conservation
Kenya’s high-elevation forests are the source for most of the water on which the drought-plagued nation depends.
Laboratory for Microclimates
Under what circumstances would we become mindful stewards of living systems, not just their expoiters?
Planning: the untapped power of community consent
When planning consent is given for a development which local people bitterly oppose, is that the end of the story?
The Master Comes Home
Our system and our expectations for what it must provide are such that losing power is a form of powerlessness. That in itself seems a form of slavery
Can We Earn a Living on a Living Planet?
It has been a tough couple of years in the effort to unite labor, community, and environmental groups, an alliance that has always been strained.
Radical Democracy: Reclaiming the Commons
That theme is citizens seeing their right to decide what kind of communities they want to live in denied by faceless processes far-removed from local reality, and certainly not accountable to it.
The Degrowth Alternative
Both the name and the theory of degrowth aim explicitly to repoliticize environmentalism.
A Commons Grows in Frogtown
Artist Seitu Jones and neighbors create a groundbreaking park in St. Paul’s poorest and most diverse neighborhood
