Detroit Bankrupt? Six Ways the Motor City Is Thriving
Detroit is a story in progress with many possible endings.
policy
What if governments focused on creating great places to live and work?
Governance, on every scale, is not set up to create great places.
Involving others: from toolkit to ethos for a different kind of democracy
Authority is a capacity to inspire trust. This is what marks a participative inquiry apart from the liberal models which consult others, but never fully recognise, nor invite, their intelligence.
Sandy Rebuilding Task Force: Climate Change Must Factor In To Rebuilding Effort
On Monday morning, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan announced the recommendations of a task force dedicated to finding solutions for rebuilding in the wake of Superstorm Sandy.
Scientists and Aid Experts Plan for a Warmer Future
Climate scientists and humanitarian relief workers need to collaborate far more closely to prepare for a future of increased extreme weather events.
The Promise of the Commons
Bollier attributes the lack of awareness of the commons in the U.S. in part to our commercial media and political culture.
Gauging the urban appetite
The agendas that are set so solemnly for international (or global) food and hunger problems cannot be used at the sub-national or local administrative level, which must analyse its own problems and find practical solutions, All too often, catering sensibly to the food needs of urban populations is ignored by policy makers, while economic ‘development’ (more infrastructure, more financing, more consumption, more personal mobility at the cost of public transport) is welcomed. The provisioning of food and the planning for shortening and localising food supply chains is usually abandoned by public administrators to the ruthless methods of the market
Ivan Illich and the contemporary commons movement
Many Americans have not heard of the commons except in connection with the word “tragedy.”
A Nation On Fire: Climate Change And The Burning Of America
“We never imagined we would be on a fire of a half million acres in the lower 48,” said Oltrogge. “Now they’re becoming commonplace.”
Peasant farmers’ markets in Colombia
How then did Colombian peasant organizations – …win a very good public policy in the capital of Bogotá to promote peasant farmers’ markets?
Why open governance and scalable leadership matter
We must look into the creation of new management and governance models that are more horizontal, informal and cooperative.
Food & agriculture – July 16
• Congressional posturing: House Republicans (No Democrats) pass farm bill without food stamps •Can an urban food growing project cure a ‘sick city’? •Hipster hen dump: The issue of urban chicken abandonment •Small-scale producers key to attaining food security and ending hunger
