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Food Sovereignty: This is What Anarchy Looks Like
Food Sovereignty: This is What Anarchy Looks Like “This is what democracy looks like” goes the popular protest chant. However, it’s not democracy that captures the imagination, provides answers, and drives today’s resistance movement. Something much more interesting has been taking place during protests, forums and intentional communities. In his book The New Left the anthropologist David […]
The Problem of Agriculture
The Problem of Agriculture This is an excerpt from the new book Plain Radical: Living, Loving, and Learning to Leave the Planet Gracefully, published by Counterpoint/Soft Skull, which tells the story of Robert Jensen’s intellectual and political collaboration with teacher/activist Jim Koplin. I was born and raised in North Dakota, a rural state with an economy […]
Surgeon General’s Prescription for Health: Walk More
Surgeon General’s Prescription for Health: Walk More Walking image via forklift/flickr. Reproduced at Resilience.org. We’ve always known walking is good for us— it burns calories, reduces stress and helps the environment. But we never knew how really great it is for us until the just released Call to Action on Walking from US Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, […]
10 Successes of the Sustainability Movement to Date
10 Successes of the Sustainability Movement to Date Wind turbines image via shutterstock. Reproduced at Resilience.org with permission. The environmental movement had a lot to brag about. In a mere ten-year span in the 1960s and early 1970s, a relatively small community of student activists, along with crusading scientists, from Rachel Carson to Barry Commoner, managed […]
The Permaculture City: Cities as Complex Systems
The Permaculture City: Cities as Complex Systems The following sections are excerpted with permission from Chapter 1 of Toby Hemenway’s new book The Permaculture City, published by Chelsea Green. When a permaculturist sees words such as “function” and “synergy,” it sets off lightbulbs in his or her head. Function, for example, indicates a relationship, a connection […]
Is another way possible?
Is another way possible? A roundup of news, views and ideas from the mainstream press and the blogosphere. Click on the headline link to see the full article. Urban Gardening in Greece – a New Form of Protest Orestes Kolokouris, Green European Journal Guerrilla gardening and local consumer-producer networks are redefining life in today’s Greek cities. […]
Don’t be Fossil Fooled – It’s time to say goodbye.
Don’t be Fossil Fooled – It’s time to say goodbye. It’s time to make the call – fossil fuels are finished. The rest is detail. The detail is interesting and important, as I expand on below. But unless we recognise the central proposition: that the fossil fuel age is coming to an end, and within […]
Burning down the house
Burning down the house Today is World Population Day (July 11) Picture the street where you live. Now imagine that a building in your neighborhood bursts into flame and burns to the ground. Day after day, the calamity is repeated. With safety and livelihoods at risk, people begin to argue about the best way […]
Spain in Transition?: Answers from the grassroots facing a collapsing country
Spain in Transition?: Answers from the grassroots facing a collapsing country Introduction Some months ago, I had a conversation with a friend which seemed meaningful to me as an anthropologist. My friend –an old-school activist with a lot of experience in social struggle- said: “Curiously, during these years of crisis I sometimes feel it’s the […]
Living Within a Limit is OK: Talking Resilience with Doria Robinson
Living Within a Limit is OK: Talking Resilience with Doria Robinson Doria Robinson is the Executive Director of Urban Tilth, based in Richmond, CA. Urban Titlh works to build a more sustainable, healthy, and just food system, by hiring and training residents to work with schools, community-based organizations, government agencies, businesses, and individuals to develop the capacity […]
