Radical Democracy: Reclaiming the Commons
That theme is citizens seeing their right to decide what kind of communities they want to live in denied by faceless processes far-removed from local reality, and certainly not accountable to it.
social movements
Industry backlash against fossil fuel divestment forces the question: Which side are you on?
Rather than convincing administrators, or even the fossil fuel industry, of their wrongs, divestment campaigners should be convincing everyone that the movement is right.
From #Takethesquare to São Paulo’s #FreeYourPark
The occupation of Augusta Park in the Brazilian city of São Paulo…opens a new breakthrough in the global cycle of occupations: the proposal of a commons-oriented park.
How Nebraskans are winning the fight against Keystone XL
As congressional Republicans jockey to rush approval of the controversial infrastructure project, the millions who live along the Keystone XL’s proposed route have been left out of the conversation on Capitol Hill.
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.
Agribusiness and Food Corporations Are not People
Five years ago today, the Supreme Court dealt a devastating setback to those working to reform our food and farm system.
Fairness and the Commons
One of the challenges that we have in this process is how to create distributed systems of organization that work, not only technology-based, but human-based.
How ‘The Power to Convene’ can transform Transition
It was in a small sideroom at the Resilience Hub in Portland, Maine, that I first heard the term ‘The Power to Convene’. It fascinated me, and finally gave me a name for this thing I’d been seeing for years.
2015: The Year We Turn Away from Tar Sands
As we leave 2014 and look forwards to 2015, here is a snapshot of the global movement to stop the tar sands.
The Day When Change Will Come
This is the vicious circle of capitalism, which is speeding up the destruction of the commons, driven by a world economy based on consumption and growth.
Review: The Great Transition – The New Paradigm
Here, I round up what I believe to be the five most significant ‘revolutions’ that constitute the positive components of this phase shift, and whose inexorable evolution and proliferation offer profound opportunities for systemic transformation that benefits humanity, and the planet: information, energy, food, finance and ethics.
Everything’s Coming Together While Everything Falls Apart
As it happens, the planet’s changing climate now demands that we summon up the energy to leave behind the Age of Fossil Fuel (and maybe with it some portion of the Age of Capitalism as well).