Housing for an Economically Sustainable Future and California’s AB 1024
This video describes how housing might be owned in a more economically sustainable future, and explains how California’s Assembly Bill 1024 (Torres) can remove legal barriers to housing cooperatives in our communities. Learn more at http://www.theselc.org/AB1024. A video by...
Potentiale der Transition Town-Bewegung zur Gestatltung einer nachhaltigen Gesellschaft
On 27 February 2013 the University of Bonn invited Transition Bonn to take part in an event titled "The potential of the Transition Town movement to build a sustainable society." Among the speakers were Transition founder Rob Hopkins, filmmaker...
Victory at Hand for the Climate Movement?
There are signs the climate movement could be on the verge of a remarkable and surprising victory. If we read the current context correctly, and if the movement can adjust its strategy to capture the opportunity presented, it could...
Philip Ackerman-Leist, author “Rebuilding the Foodshed”
Credit: Earthworms with Jean Ponzi | Download Philip Ackerman-Leist, author of Rebuilding the Foodshed – How to Create Local, Sustainable and Secure Food Systems, talks with Jean Ponzi about a number of issues including health and social justice. The book is published...
Richard Heinberg Launches Community Engagement Model of Publishing, Fights Big Oil
HELP US EXPOSE BIG OIL’S LIES & QUITE POSSIBLY SAVE THE WORLD. The oil & gas industry is lying to you. And the consequences of these lies affect you and everyone you know. These consequences aren’t esoteric, or limited...
Local Self-Sufficiency – Resilience, Transition and Simplicity
Credit: Businessmatters | Download This week we talk about a movement that’s growing across the globe in response to the impact of how we humans are trashing the planet. Whether it’s our use of petrochemicals or the consequence of some of our...
Telling the Real Fracking Story
I can’t imagine it’s easy being a journalist these days, tasked with covering the explosive growth of US shale gas and oil (tight oil) drilling, and the even more explosive and ubiquitous claims that these unconventional resources are going...
A New Dream Built on Resilience
If you’re a lazy pessimist, times are good. After all, you don’t have to look far to see evidence that things are tough and poised to get tougher. There’s a growing wealth chasm between the rich and, well, everyone else. Significant changes...
The Ghosts of Shoppers Past: why assumptions matter
Berry Pomeroy Castle near Totnes is famed for supposedly being one of the most haunted castles in Britain. It is said that the ghosts can still be seen of the Pomeroy brothers riding to their doom over the castle...
The Political Economy of Ecosystem Services
Credit: University of Oxford Environmental Change Institute podcasts | Download Professor Joshua Farley (Vermont University; ODID-ECI Astor Visiting Lecturer) gives a entitled “The Political Economy of Ecosystem Services”.