Resilience and Collapse: Notes from Cyprus
By Lakis Polycarpou, City of the Future
Whatever we do in Cyprus doesn’t really stay in Cyprus. It’s like the effect gets multiplied and spread, from here to the nearby regions, and from there on.
By Lakis Polycarpou, City of the Future
Whatever we do in Cyprus doesn’t really stay in Cyprus. It’s like the effect gets multiplied and spread, from here to the nearby regions, and from there on.
By John Mulrow, Yardfarmers blog
There is need for a new level of nuance — a local circular economy — one, in which materials, ideas and feedback flow cyclically and locally.
By Staff, STWR, Share The World's Resources
In this latest editorial we’re highlighting some of the various ways in which a call for sharing is being expressed in the field of international development, especially in relation to calls for more and better overseas aid.
By Julian Dobson, Rob Hopkins, Transition Culture
If you want to get a feel for how a place is working, visiting the high street, the town centre, gives you a very good idea.
By Samuel Dolgin-Gardner, YES! magazine
“If we can put this building back to work, we can put any building in Indianapolis to work,” says Taft. “And if we can do it here, we can do it anywhere.”
By Staff, Friends of the Earth Europe, GRAIN
The globalisation of food production has led to an industrial monopoly within the agricultural sector.
By Ute Scheub, Future Perfect
Teacher Heinz Frey halted the demise of “mom-and-pop stores” by creating new village centres – first in his home village, then in other communities and urban districts.
By Steve Jones, Bolton Urban Growers
Central to Permaculture is the idea of creating resilient systems.
By Abby Scher, YES! magazine
This localist agenda is part of Mayor Spencer’s ambitious program to create a fairer and more sustainable local economy whose businesses stay put and where money spends more time circulating locally among networked enterprises.
By Leander Bindewald, New Economics Foundation
After years of work and international experimentation, NEF is excited to announce the launch of an innovative and practical tool for developing modern community currencies.
By Staff, PPS, Project for Public Spaces
The traditional Main Street is one of the most iconic images of America.
By Allan Carlson, Transition Voice
Twentieth-century America witnessed the blossoming of Agrarianism as an intellectual and cultural movement.