Garden Advice
So that’s my garden advice. It is a framework. You fill in the details — those plant lists and design ideas — based on your place, your needs, your community.
Placemaking
How to build the future in place: Taking the first steps
The prescription for despair is collective action where it is possible to act most fruitfully. Any journey starts from where we live. It starts by beginning to build the future in place.
The Hygge Garden
To dig my spirit out of this dark depression, my body needs, my sense of home and happiness and comfort needs, I need to be rooted in this hygge garden.
Of Maps & Places (part 1)
Bioregionalists are interested in deeply integrating maps and map-making with natural distinctions, because they seek to live not in an abstraction but in the real, concrete and natural world.
Wisdom in theory and practice
This is how a future that includes me was created. This, place-based farming, is wisdom. And, I suspect that, in places like mine, this is the only path that can lead to another future millennium.
Democracy Rising 22: Deliberation and the Promise of Place
The good news is that when place-based wisdom informs local solutions, the solutions are all the more sustainable.
Landskap – a model for the future?
Landskap, therefore, is the nature we have together, where we live. The word expresses that we are part of the landscape and that the landscape is part of us.
How communities are reimagining LA’s vacant lots
To clear the way for these groups to be “allowed” to use the lots for the community’s benefit, LA residents have to make their requests known, a mission that Ben Tyson, Director of Rise Together, a nonprofit working to inspire and educate voters, is pursuing.
Living Like Perennials
This is what “living like a perennial” should look like: having an attitude of longevity and love that fights back against the consumerism of our age, and against that incessant internal voice that asks, petulantly, “How does this benefit me?”
Practising place-fullness
What is place? Recently, it has sparked for me a reflection on something I’ve been calling “place-fullness”.
City Repair
Start with wherever they’re able to get to start to say yes. And then you get to the next yes. And the next yes. Until the process begins.
A Walking Forest in Stuttgart
Wanderbaumallee’s walking trees take over Stuttgart, Germany bringing green spaces and shelter, nature, biodiversity and community spaces to the city while championing for citizens’ freedom to change their neighbourhoods.