If We’re Serious about Saving Bees and Butterflies, Here’s What We Should Do
If pollinator health is made a priority, to be successful much current policy and practice must change.
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To Make Hope Possible Rather Than Despair Convincing
We stand at a precipice in history that demands that the human species achieve some fairly unprecedented evolutionary advances.
Beyond the Market-State: Decentralising Power in a Sharing Society
At a time when governments are failing abysmally to mitigate climate change, reduce inequality or end poverty, the key to creating a more equal and sustainable world is establishing participative forms of political engagement at all levels of society – from the local to the global.
$5 Million for Co-op Development in Madison
I have to say that of all the different political and social organizations that I have been involved with recently, the co-op groups are easily the youngest, sharpest and most energized groups around.
Message to the UK: The Fracking ‘Bridge’ is Burning!
British anti-frackers can celebrate this week’s achievements – but the fight ahead will not be an easy one.
‘Failure of Conscience’: Groups Urge Congress to Fund Social Well-Being, Not Fossil Fuel Industry
A coalition of environmental and social justice groups has come together to declare collective disgust with the spending of billions of taxpayer dollars on unnecessary subsidies for the oil and gas industries when that same money could be used to improve the lives of millions if spent on social services, renewable energy investments, healthcare, and education.
This Rust-Belt Town’s Survival Strategy Is All About Giving Workers Control
This localist agenda is part of Mayor Spencer’s ambitious program to create a fairer and more sustainable local economy whose businesses stay put and where money spends more time circulating locally among networked enterprises.
LA Imports Nearly 85 Percent of Its Water—Can It Change That by Gathering Rain?
In the past decade and a half, a few local environmentalists have been collaborating with city and county officials to rewrite the plan for water here, driven by more and more urgent necessity.
The Role of Cities in Moving Toward a Sustainable Economy
The story of a hippy flower-child who leveraged big economic decisions that ushered in renewable energy and sensible land-use for Austin and the State of Texas.
SELC Celebrates Victories and Launches Seed Library Campaign
Now in its fifth year, SELC is a driving force for the new economy, doing pioneering work around worker cooperatives, home-based food businesses, alternative currencies, legal guides for sharing, legal apprenticeships, accessible legal cafes, renewable energy, the commons, seed libraries and more.
Local Economies on the Table
The EU is seeking a massive expansion of local governments compelled to open their procurement contracts to bids from EU firms, perhaps even the unconditional access achieved in the EU-Canada trade deal. No U.S. trade agreement to date has included such broad coverage of public procurement commitments.
Greening Houston
The U.S. capital of the oil industry could teach other cities a thing or two about fighting climate change—in a politically inhospitable climate.