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The Bulletin: August 23-29, 2024
The Bulletin: August 23-29, 2024 Global Food Production Is Being Limited by a Lack of Pollinators | Technology Networks There’s No Good News In The Unfolding Of Armageddon You Don’t Get To Vote On Any Of Your Government’s Most Consequential Actions Russia warns the United States of the risks of World War Three | Reuters […]
The Radical Step
THE RADICAL STEP BUILDING A COMMUNITY FOR SURVIVAL Climate news this week is bleak. More floods, more wildfires, more death, more nature lost. The climate change warning bell is tolling hard. It’s time to take the most radical step you’ve ever taken in your life. It’s time to build the community you need to survive. […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXI–A Self-Sufficient Community — Better Than Precious Metals or Fiat/Digital Currencies
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh CLXI Mexico (1988). Photo by author. A Self-Sufficient Community — Better Than Precious Metals or Fiat/Digital Currencies Today I’m sharing a conversation with others via the Comments section for a post on the website Zerohedge — as well as a preamble to the conversation to set the context for my part in the conversation. The article […]
Community, Belonging and the Polycrisis
Community, Belonging and the Polycrisis Image: Ad Parnassum, by Paul Klee Wherever I go and ask people what is missing from their lives, the most common answer (if they are not impoverished or seriously ill) is “community.” — Charles Eisenstein ChatGPT, the A.I. robot, often gets things badly wrong It even makes wildly false statements […]
Micro utopias for an inclusive future
Micro utopias for an inclusive future When Gijsbert Huijink, a Dutch national living in Banyoles, in the Catalan province of Girona, set out to install solar panels in his home he stumbled upon a legal labyrinth that criminalized energy self-consumption. “If I wanted to connect to the grid to recharge my batteries and supply my […]
The End of the Dream
The End of the Dream There are times when the winds that shape the future blow strong enough to be heard over the jabber of everyday life, and this is one of those times. For a while now I’ve been mulling over a handful of often-repeated comments on this blog, and I find that if […]
The Key Is Interrelated Communities
The Key Is Interrelated Communities Part of the GTI forum on Can Human Solidarity Globalize? Richard Falk’s engaging essay invites us to identify various “foreclosures of the imagination” that are blocking the emergence of pathways to greater global solidarity in the future. Any realistic thoughts about the future, though, must surely be set within the context of […]
Building Community by Buying Nothing
Building Community by Buying Nothing “It’s like a radical new economy, except of course it’s an old economy that has been around forever.” Following knee surgery five years ago, Myra Anderson was having difficulty getting around. Living alone in Charlottesville, Virginia, she began asking on Facebook if anyone could assist her in getting a few […]
Collective Farming, Community and Connection
Collective Farming, Community and Connection Cédric, Mathieu and Hervé of the collective farm (GAEC) La Ferme des 7 Chemins in Brittany. Image courtesy of La Ferme des 7 Chemins via Facebook What does a socio-ecological transition mean for farmers? Farmers from the Nos Campagnes En Résilience project share their thoughts on social issues in farming, the […]
Social innovation for a just transition to sustainability
Social innovation for a just transition to sustainability At a time of climate emergency and rapid biodiversity loss, the need for transformation to a more sustainable economy and society becomes ever more urgent. Rapid change requires social innovations of different types and at different scales, Prof Fergus Lyon writes ahead of the #ISIRC2021 conference—a just transition […]
The Importance and Complexity of Community
The Importance and Complexity of Community Image by John Hain from Pixabay I deeply believe that people are the only critical resource needed by people. We ourselves, if we organise our talents, are sufficient to each other. What is more, we will either survive together or none of us will survive. –Bill Mollison, from Permaculture: A Designers’ Manual […]
A Call for Community-Based Seed Diversity During the COVID-19 Pandemic
A Call for Community-Based Seed Diversity During the COVID-19 Pandemic When the COVID-19 pandemic began to reshape the world, many people turned to gardening and orchard-keeping as a pastime that felt both private and public. Now, as the pandemic reaches deeper into the summer, we’re tending the soil out of hope and anxiety, out of […]
So You Want to Leave It All and Create a Community?
SO YOU WANT TO LEAVE IT ALL AND CREATE A COMMUNITY? If you want to leave it all and start a community, you should focus on inner work first. If you focus only on action, you risk building yourself another prison. You might just change one form of unhealthy lifestyle and toxic relations for another as […]
