Gus Speth: “What We’ve Got to Get Us Through is Each Other”
What we’ve got, mainly, to get us through life, with a maximum of happiness and a minimum of suffering, is each other.
personal resilience
How to boost well-being – and prove it
Today, the Big Lottery Fund has published the final results from their Well-Being Programme evaluation which we, alongside colleagues at the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES), have been carrying out on their behalf since 2006.
Kick Start Change with NWEI’s 2013 EcoChallenge!
At Northwest Earth Institute, we often hear from people who are looking for ways to live more sustainably—in their local communities, on college campuses, within faith communities, and at work.
What Van Gogh can teach us about education and learning
But what can we pull out of Vincent’s story that might illuminate our discussions about education and learning over this month?
Transition meets the Circle Way
Back in July, participants from Sweden and Denmark gathered for the annual Circle Way camp hosted by Manitonquat, a Native American who bases his teachings on traditional tribal ways.
The Good Life Lab: Living a Decommodified Life
We realized that instead of making the goods we needed to live, we bought them.
Forty Days
"In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion." Albert Camus
Sophy Banks on the power of not doing stuff
But in this, our final post for the month before we sign off for August (during which very little will happen on this site, as we put theory into practice), Sophy (busily doing nothing, above), one of the key developers of the Inner Transition approach and co-creator of the Transition Training, reflects on whether it’s just as important to not do stuff.
Preparing Personal Solutions
Radio Ecoshock is back with more local solutions for global problems – from the Mother Earth News Fair.
We Have to Embrace Apocalypse If We’re Going to Get Serious About Sticking Around on This Planet
In the United States, talk of the future is expected to be upbeat, predicting expansion and progress, or at least maintenance of our “way of life.”
Building a resilient homestead of your own
“Imagine inheriting a food forest,” farmer and author Ben Falk suggests in The Resilient Farm and Homestead: an Innovative Permaculture and Whole Systems Design Approach.
Everyday Stories of Transformation
Knowing and caring about global problems won’t deliver solutions without changes in our own behaviour.
