Rescuing Chile’s Roots

By Constanza Pérez Verdugo, Future Perfect

Two Chilean initiatives are using luxury tourism to promote small businesses in rural areas and preserve indigenous cultural heritage.

Giving Fellow Citizens a Stake

By Nathalie Cobbaut, Future Perfect

Stephane Vlaminck is not out to conquer the world market. He supplies his microbrewery’s products locally – with a little help from an association to promote the solidarity economy.

Slow Money and the State of Soil

By Woody Tasch, Green Money Journals

“Beetniks Against Global Warming.”There’s a placard you never saw in Paris.

Brooklyn Youth Create Jobs (and Community Roots) Through Local Compost Program

By Rebecca Nathanson, YES! magazine

The combination of BK Rot’s many aspects—creating green jobs for young people, raising local awareness about composting, and opening up public space—makes it a useful example of creatively addressing large-scale problems, even on a small scale.

Peddling a New Model of Urban Farming

By Trish Riley, Future Perfect

Bike-riding farmers in Orlando, Florida, are helping communities produce their own food—right on their own front lawns.

There is No Paradise

By Michel Bauwens, Sophie Jerram, Commons Transition

Art is a subtle way to groom the populace with new ideas, fast.

The Benefits of Localism

By Steve Dubb, Michael Shuman, Community-Wealth.org

A “pollinator” is a social enterprise with an explicit mission to support other local businesses—and it does so in a way that is self-financing.

Paaduks: Shoes with Soul

By Manisha SG, Vikalp Sangam

What does it take to upcycle any waste material into a product that is beautiful, serves a basic function and will prevent that material from ending up in a landfill for a few more years?

Ex-cons at LA Kitchen Feed the Hungry with Food Waste

By Cat Johnson, Shareable

“Neither food nor people should ever go to waste.”

What does REconomy look like in … Linlithgow, Scotland?

By Alan Brown, Transition Culture

Alan Brown of Transition Linlithgow (TL) in Scotland participated in the REconomy Event in St Andrews in October. Here, he shares his experience of the group as a start-up