Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Authority is a capacity to inspire trust. This is what marks a participative inquiry apart from the liberal models which consult others, but never fully recognise, nor invite, their intelligence.
On Monday morning, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan announced the recommendations of a task force dedicated to finding solutions for rebuilding in the wake of Superstorm Sandy.
Climate scientists and humanitarian relief workers need to collaborate far more closely to prepare for a future of increased extreme weather events.
Bollier attributes the lack of awareness of the commons in the U.S. in part to our commercial media and political culture.
The agendas that are set so solemnly for international (or global) food and hunger problems cannot be used at the sub-national or local administrative level, which must analyse its own problems and find practical solutions, All too often, catering sensibly to the food needs of urban populations is ignored by policy makers, while economic ‘development’ (more infrastructure, more financing, more consumption, more personal mobility at the cost of public transport) is welcomed. The provisioning of food and the planning for shortening and localising food supply chains is usually abandoned by public administrators to the ruthless methods of the market
Many Americans have not heard of the commons except in connection with the word “tragedy.”
“We never imagined we would be on a fire of a half million acres in the lower 48,” said Oltrogge. “Now they’re becoming commonplace.”
How then did Colombian peasant organizations – …win a very good public policy in the capital of Bogotá to promote peasant farmers’ markets?
We must look into the creation of new management and governance models that are more horizontal, informal and cooperative.
• Congressional posturing: House Republicans (No Democrats) pass farm bill without food stamps •Can an urban food growing project cure a ‘sick city’? •Hipster hen dump: The issue of urban chicken abandonment •Small-scale producers key to attaining food security and ending hunger
As the concept of sharing slowly begins to grip the mass public consciousness, there are many questions that arise about the meaning and relevance of this simple concept for political and economic reform.
In June 2013, a series of large demonstrations throughout Brazil have shaken its main cities and political landscape.
