How to Start the Airbnb of Kitchen Incubators in Your Community
FoodLab Detroit’s new Detroit Kitchen Connect program is experimenting with an innovative new model for kitchen incubation that drastically reduces the cost of operation…
social enterprise
Migration and craft: reimagining the city
Through creative social enterprise, migrant and refugee women in Britain’s second largest city have found a way to celebrate diversity and speak above and beyond the ‘hostile’ headlines, says Emma Daker.
Stop Feeding the Elephant
Our common future lies with an economy beyond the accumulation of wealth and, therein, the debt structures that support this accumulation.
Creating Cities: Interview with Marcus Westbury of Renew Australia
Renew Australia is a social enterprise designed to catalyse community revitalisation across Australia. In this interview founder Marcus Westbury shares Renew’s vision for creative space activation.
Jenny Gellatly on The Power of Just Growing Stuff
What does it take to find the confidence to step over into actually starting a Community Supported Agriculture scheme?
Cure for Capitalism?
In Extraenvironmentalist #61 we talk about historical economic transitions with professor, economist and author Rick Wolff and his recent book Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism.
Real life, real incomes – creating social enterprises
Over the last few years, Transition Initiatives have been looking at how to get economically real. This is key in terms of formulating a response not only to climate change and the need to stop using oil, but equally to the financial crisis and the need to be able to articulate and show what an economic alternative would look like.