Brad Smith is a community organizer and social entrepreneur in Eugene, OR, co-founder of Sweetwater Collaborative, Youth Drought Project, Community Healing House, and the Resilient Communities Project. Contact: [email protected]
Framework for Resilient Communities
We are forming a network of small socially and economically cooperative communities that can survive and thrive as the neoliberal system continues to unravel.
April 12, 2024
From the Covid Economic Disruption to a Sustainable World
If we are to follow this path that sustains life rather than the one that is destroying it we need more than the collection of great ideas and projects being put forth by so many brilliant people. We need a comprehensive, holistic plan. This will not be easy but the alternative will be far more difficult.
May 6, 2020
Cultivating a sustainable community: The cycle of collaboration
In order to survive peak oil, climate change, economic failure, and ecological collapse we must make fundamental shifts in our collective way of life. Individual change is necessary but not enough because our means of survival are embedded in complex social and economic systems. On the other hand, direct change of the massive business and government institutions we now depend upon is unrealistic because the nature of all large institutions is self-perpetuation, not transformation. The practical domain in which we can effectively create a sustainable way of life is our local community.
February 23, 2012
A Home for Occupy
The Occupy movement represents not only a stand against the tyranny of finance capitalism, but also a revival of the role of the commons for a vital civic life. People are once again coming together face-to-face and shoulder-to-shoulder to confront their common challenges and craft new ways to meet them. They are exploring what kind of life they can share with which to create a free, just, sustainable society.
January 9, 2012