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300 year old food forest in the suburbs
Geoff Lawton discovers a 300 year old food forest that has been tended for 28 generations by the same family. Incredibly it is in the suburbs of a Vietnamese city and only 2 acres in size yet it...
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The Critical Need for Self-Care When World Building
There’s a lot going on right now.I’m in the process of federating with a large number of people across the globe to form a new kind of living systems organization, and lay down infrastructures that we...
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Our co-owned future
The explosive force of Occupy Wall Street—and more than a thousand other local efforts—offers hope that a movement committed to long-term change might one day achieve a fundamental transformation of...
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The Transition Companion
We can do this the hard way or the easy way. The easy way is that you skip this post and buy the book now.The hard way is that your reviewer attempts to describe a 320 page book whose contents have...
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Debt and the Transition economy
As we navigate The Great Turning, we must create a safety net or "backup plan" as the conventional growth-dependent economic system falters and crumbles. Ideally, that safety net will integrate threads...
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Alternative currencies, monetary systems | Comparison tables - SocialCompare
Alternative currency is a term that refers to any currency used as an alternative to the dominant national or multinational currency systems (usually referred to as national or fiat money)....
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vox pop In transition 2.0 screening preview, LYTTELTON
vox pop In transition 2.0 screening preview, LYTTELTON (New Zealand)...See it on Scoop.it, via Transition Culture
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Building a Sustainable Future Requires More than Science
Contrary to popular belief, humans have failed to address the earth’s worsening emergencies of climate change, species’ extinction and resource overconsumption not because of a lack of information, but...
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Sacred Economics | Charles Eisenstein | Money, Gift and Society in the Age of...
Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed...
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Conscious Leadership for Sustainability: Executive Summary | Integral Life
A study of how leaders and change agents with postconventional consciousness design and engage in complex change initiatives....See it on Scoop.it, via Transition Culture
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The Marblehead Letter
Summary of Key Points A natural agenda of issues is shaping the future, especially for corporations with global scope• The social divide: the ever-widening gap between those participating in the...
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Shareable: Blueprint for P2P Society: The Partner State & Ethical Economy
A new way to produce is emerging. By this I mean: a new way to produce anything and everything, whether it is software, food, or cities. What once required rigid organisations and a society defined by...
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Greek Town Develops Bartering System Without Euro
People are finally taking things into their own hands ....See it on Scoop.it, via Transition Culture
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Micro-Currency: In French City Of Nantes, Soon You Can Pay In Nantos
Accelerated by the financial crisis, Europe has seen a trend for small businesses looking to make more cashless exchanges. Nantes is becoming Europe's first major city to experiment with a virtual...
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Mobile Greenhouse Project by Compass Green Compass...
Mobile Greenhouse Project by Compass Green Compass Green is a fully functional greenhouse built in the back of a box truck that grows vegetables and herbs and is powered by waste vegetable oil....
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TEDxExeter - Rob Hopkins - My Town in Transition
Rob Hopkins’ leaky bucket animation on this TEDx presentation is a great resource for communities wanting to strengthen their local economy.See it on Scoop.it, via Transition Culture
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AskShareGive
Recently a new website AskShareGive was launched in New Zealand. AskShareGive is a not-for-profit website that allows people to share their time, skills, transport and old or unwanted goods. The...
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A land backed currency issued by a Local Authority
This paper develops the case for a currency issued by a local authority and proposes a contract where a land levy is paid to council in exchange for local dollars to assist would-be purchasers to buy...
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Amsterdam Tries to Change Culture With ‘Repair Cafes’
Leave it to the Dutch, who throw away only 3 percent of their municipal waste into landfills, to come up with a socially appealing innovation that does even more to reduce waste: the neighborhood...
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Cooperative living
Do you want to live more efficiently and reap the benefits of a closer community? Cooperative living is a great strategy for getting and staying out of debt while building community, resilience and...
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