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.

The Circular Economy’s Missing Ingredient: Local

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.

New visions of global solidarity

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.

“It’s Time to Raise a Glass to the New Economy”

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.

These Friends from High School Bought an Abandoned Factory. Now They’re Distilling Artisanal Whiskeys

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.”

Why We Need Local Food Systems and How to Get Them

By Staff, Friends of the Earth Europe, GRAIN

The globalisation of food production has led to an industrial monopoly within the agricultural sector.

The Store(e)-Keeper

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.

Building Urban Food Resilience

By Steve Jones, Bolton Urban Growers

Central to Permaculture is the idea of creating resilient systems.

This Rust-Belt Town’s Survival Strategy Is All About Giving Workers Control

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.

Announcing the Community Currency Knowledge Gateway

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.

Placemaking Main Street into a Destination Downtown

By Staff, PPS, Project for Public Spaces

The traditional Main Street is one of the most iconic images of America.

A two-century fight for the small, the local and the beautiful

By Allan Carlson, Transition Voice

Twentieth-century America witnessed the blossoming of Agrarianism as an intellectual and cultural movement.