Resilience Reflections with John Thackara
It’s taken me a long time to learn respect for the ways millions of people help each other to feed and shelter their families in resourceful ways.
John Thackara
Resilience Reflections with Tara Lohan
I’m driven by the belief that the stories we tell about people and places can help change the world.
Bolivian Urban Farming Coop Empowers Migrant Women
As advocates and practitioners know, urban farming delivers a number of benefits, from improving household access to healthy foods to growing local economies.
How Platform Coops Can Beat Death Stars Like Uber to Create a Real Sharing Economy
We have an epic choice before us between platform coops and Death Star platforms, and the time to decide is now.
The Sharing Economy is Booming in Helsinki: Here’s Why
Helsinki is, in many respects, a sharer’s paradise.
There’s No Single Right Path : Resilience Reflections with Chris Smaje
There’s no single right path and there’s a lot to be learned from people following different, even antithetical, paths to your own.
Shared Space Aims to Create Safer, More Polite Roads
Shared Space, as such streets are called, is an urban planning alternative that puts everyone in the same space and makes them communicate with each other.
Food Justice Truck Serves Up Fresh, Healthy Food to Asylum Seekers
A mobile fresh food market, the truck offers locally sourced fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes, tea, and bread to asylum seekers at a 75% discount.
New Report Outlines Strategies for Community Wealth Building
A new Democracy Collaborative report summarizes lessons learned from 11 case studies of organizations including the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative.
How Placemaking with “Bottle Bricks” Changes Lives
This is the story of how a simple idea forever changed my life, as well as the lives of many others.
Ex-cons at LA Kitchen Feed the Hungry with Food Waste
“Neither food nor people should ever go to waste.”
Dignity, Democracy and Food: An Interview with Frances Moore Lappè
What is the balance between crisis and progress? Can food activism possibly keep pace with the food industry’s destructive swath?