Ali and the Sound of Beans
Ali Kawakita created NOCA?! to give a home to young people who were abused by their parents during their childhood. Working hard in farming or in crafts, they find their way to independence.
Reskilling
Eating Well on Nearly Nothing
If you had less than £3 per day to spend on food, what would you eat?
The Seed Within Planting the Seed
The positive side of the fragmented thinking evident in our current systems is that it results in a proliferation of points of effective action everywhere the systems are breaking down. Here we look at how the permaculture strategy of stacking functions can help us engage these opportunities.
Learning From the Past in Kensal and Kilburn
Oral histories have been something that has fascinated the Transition movement since the outset.
Fumbling towards Independence
A more independent life need not be a distant redoubt to purchase but an ideal to fumble toward — in small steps, with help, in ways that are fulfilling and not overly complicated.
Your Basic Essentials
More than a hundred years of consumer capitalism and the free labor of fossil fuels have left most of us ill-equipped to contemplate the essentials of life and the value of work.
Scaling up Transition in Peterborough
Like many Transition, and other changemaking initiatives around the world, Transition Town Peterborough (TTP) has been giving some serious thought to how it might scale up its impacts.
Rhapsody In Blue: Artisan Kori Hargreaves Crafts A Perfectly Imperfect Life
We drive up the windy country road on an early fall afternoon in Bonny Doon near Santa Cruz, to see what Kori Hargreaves is doing with hyper-local fibers and dyes.
Teaching Ourselves Out of the Industrial Economy
Seeing how the collapse of economies is turning into a bit more than just a fad, where viable and applicable, teaching ourselves out of our jobs and professions before they’re pulled out from under us might come in rather handy.
Things I Learned From my First Week as a Beekeeper
First of all, everything you do will be wrong, at least according to someone, and that’s okay.
Review: The Art of Fermentation
“Between fresh and rotten,” says Sandor Ellix Katz, “there is a creative space in which some of the most compelling of flavours arise.”
Could do better: why we must set young minds free
It is time all young people knew this: the work of our time is the work of reconnection, regeneration, restoration and reconciliation.