Everything Gardens: Growing Transition Culture
Academic work on Transition can often be infuriating rather than illuminating.
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Co-operatives Need to Confront Climate Chaos
The challenges for 2015 are the same ones we’ve failed as a movement to find solutions to, or even act on, for a very long time: climate change and the neoliberal politics of austerity.
A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity
A Simpler Way is a documentary about simple living, permaculture, and local economy as a response to global crises.
Picturing the End of Fossil Fuels
"It’s all of us, the little guys, against the immense, concentrated wealth and power of the biggest companies on earth."
A Good Life is the Business of us All
Digital culture is changing society: the way we relate to each other, how power flows, decisions are made, and politics is done, shaping environmental stresses.
The Last Refuge of the Incompetent
The science fiction author Isaac Asimov used to say that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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?
The War Against Change
The first step in making change is imagining change, and the first step in imagining change is recognizing that “more of the same” isn’t going to cut it.
Exposing the False Prophets of Social Transformation
A growing group of elite storytellers present radical solutions to global problems, but their ideas actually inhibit real change and strengthen the status quo.
The New Ecofeminism
The environmental movement is a microcosm of other realms of society in one troubling way: women are missing.
Evidence Released at TransCanada’s Keystone XL Permit Renewal Hearing Sheds Light On Serious Pipeline Risks
Just because TransCanada continually states that the Keystone XL pipeline will be the safest pipeline ever built, doesn’t mean it is true.
The Transformative Power of Climate Truth: Updated w Encyclical Material
Our mission is to initiate a World War II-scale mobilization that protects civilization and the natural world from climate catastrophe by eliminating net greenhouse gas emissions by 2025.