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Reconnecting Agriculture to our Cultural Base: An Interview with Ana Felicien

Reconnecting Agriculture to our Cultural Base: An Interview with Ana Felicien A Venezuelan food sovereignty activist explains the need to combat agrobusiness’ complex web of domination in this interview with Venezuelanalysis. Campesino holds bean seeds. (Archive) In the course of Venezuela’s economic crisis, we have seen changes in people’s consumption patterns. People are eating more […]

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Community Development and the Commons

Community Development and the Commons The commons offers a framework and a process for effectively and equitably stewarding the resources communities need to live in dignity. Last August, 200 people from across Oakland, California came together to envision and design a development plan for a small parcel of public land. For months leading up to […]

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Making, adapting, sharing: fabricating open-source agricultural tools

Making, adapting, sharing: fabricating open-source agricultural tools This is a story about people who build their own machines. It’s a story about people who, due to necessity and/or conscious choice, do not buy commercial equipment to work their lands or animals, but who invent, create and adapt machines to their specific needs: for harvesting legumes, […]

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Our Economy is a Degenerative System

Our Economy is a Degenerative System Impacts of resource hungry exploitative economies “What is 120 times the size of London? The answer: the land or ecological footprint required to supply London’s needs.” — Herbert Giradet Our ecological footprint exceeds the Earth’s capacity to regenerate. A number of useful indicators and frameworks have been developed to measure the […]

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Book of the Day: Integral Ecology: Toward a Perma-Circular Society

Book of the Day: Integral Ecology: Toward a Perma-Circular Society Christian Arnsperger: My colleague Dominique Bourg (also from the University of Lausanne) and myself have just released a new book in French, entitled Ecologie intégrale: Pour une société permacirculaire(translation: Integral Ecology: Toward a Perma-Circular Society), published in Paris by Presses Universitaires de France. It’s the culmination of a […]

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There’s only one way to avoid climate catastrophe: ‘de-growing’ our economy

There’s only one way to avoid climate catastrophe: ‘de-growing’ our economy Jason Hickel: You can almost feel the planet writhing. This summer brought some of the biggest, most destructive storms in recorded history: Harvey laid waste to huge swathes of Texas; Irma left Barbuda virtually uninhabitable; Maria ravaged Dominica and plunged Puerto Rico into darkness. The […]

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