By Morgan Richards, Bangla-Pesa blog
Resilience and ingenuity are trademarks of impoverished communities here in Kenya. When we first introduced Bangla-Pesa it had a few ups and downs, but now it is being used in ways we had never imagined.
By Laura Flanders, YES! magazine
“The most significant things happen in history when you get the right people in the right place at the right time, and I think that’s what we are,” Mayor Lumumba told me this February in Jackson.
By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth
"...the moment of social transformation is when people look each other in the eyes."
By David Bollier, On The Commons
A community’s identity is inevitably entangled in its geography and its buildings, its history and its leaders.
By Alex Smith, Radio Ecoshock
Do we need to break the system to save the climate? Permaculture co-founder David Holmgren says "yes", in rare radio interview. Then Nicole Foss replies. Plus Alex's climate music.
By Andrew Price, Strong Towns
"Why on earth would we go back in time 70 years to model our current cities on?" Because it worked.
By Brian Emerson, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Local Bites
In this episode host Brian Emerson interviews Helena Norberg-Hodge on how "free" trade treaties undermine local communities, economies and democracies around the world.
By Michel Bauwens, P2P Foundation
COMING HOME: E.F. Schumacher and the Reinvention of the Local Economy, is a new 37 minute film that tells the story of a series of revolutionary innovations by the community of Great Barrington, MA to address, at the local level, some of the economic challenges of our nation’s current hard times.
By Mark H. Burton, Platform
A Manchester where all people can thrive without harming the planet? Mark Burton introduces the Steady State Manchester Project...
By Rob Hopkins, Transition Culture
For our last piece in our month's theme of austerity and how Transition responds to it, we head to Totnes, one of the first Transition initiatives.
By Leander Bindewald, New Economics Foundation
Time banking, business-to-business currencies, local payment schemes: community currencies such as these are rapidly rising to prominence in the wake of the financial crisis, in Europe and elsewhere.
By Kaye Spector, EcoWatch
An increasing number of U.S. school districts are participating in Farm to School programs, reflecting the growing popularity of local foods.