The Movement to Make Every American Community Walkable
Tell me your zip code and I can tell you how healthy you are….
Tell me your zip code and I can tell you how healthy you are….
"Instead of letting the conquerors tell the story, let the people who have been doing these collective survival strategies tell the story."
The story of Rossy’s Bakery exemplifies the way CDCUs are crucial actors in a city that is often inaccessible to all but the rich.
In Chicago, Sweet Beginnings helps people returning from prison learn how to make a living with bees – changing ideas about ecology and imprisonment along the way.
Another indication of how crazy this country has become: Some people are coming out against solar energy.
University of Montana professor George Price on permaculture, race, and how he’s standing up to tar sands extraction.
In Spain, where the government bails out banks, the Platform for People Affected by Mortgages (PAH) bails out families and defends their right to housing.
This is where we are heading. We are heading to weird weather incidents. We are heading towards strained infrastructure.
Transition is inevitable, but justice is not.
We promote systems thinking, and resiliency, which is like self-sufficiency—not "I’m an island," but more, "I’m accountable." And because I’m accountable, I can work collectively.
What it boils down to is ensuring an equal emphasis on the “worker” and “owner” of being a worker-owner.
One way to make the apathy of privileged whites irrelevant is to build institutions that guarantee material economic justice.