Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
For thousands of years artists and communicators have sung in the day, we’ve sung praises and lullabies, shared stories, and learned, through the art of writing, how to convey our thoughts and feelings across the globe…One of those stories is about the Transition movement…
Do you ever wonder what a town based on the principles of solidarity, cooperation and autonomy might look like? Marinaleda, Spain offers a taste…
How could anyone imagine being in control of all this interwoven resistance?
I’m fond of books that don’t claim to have The Answer but instead are useful guides in our search for answers.
"I’m suggesting in my essay, the underlying thing is an appeal to those people to come and join us in the positive side where we’re going to create the world we do want, whether or not it leads to a larger scale positive change, or whether or not it contributes to a crash."
There are many approaches to the three main crises threatening civilization today, namely, climate change, peak oil and economic crisis. The problem is that most of them won’t work.
Today, peasants proudly and powerfully put forward effective strategies to feed the planet and limit the damages wrought by industrial agriculture.
Based what we know from the most recent climate science, Obama’s "all-of-the-above" energy policy is actually suicidal.
Pete Seeger has been a presence in my life since the time I was growing up in the Hudson Valley of New York. My family was among the scores who went to see him perform at a run-down little park on the Hudson with his sloop, the Clearwater, docked nearby. His songs of his love for a polluted, neglected water-way rekindled in people a yearning for connection to the great river.
I would like to encourage the hundreds of leaders, thinkers, do-ers and seekers in our movement to pause from time to time and reflect together on how we understand our true purpose and mission.
Leo Panitch speaks to Peter Newell and Sam Knafo about his book The Making of Global Capitalism – and what it means for strategy and action aimed at ‘un-making’ capitalism
Can the sharing economy movement address the root causes of the world’s converging crises?
