One of the foundational challenges of any social movement is “changing the conversation.” That is, transforming an existing paradigm (say, some people are less than human and can be enslav

Rob Hopkins writes: "The new absolutely brilliant Transition Network website is here!!" The site’s goal is to support the Transition Towns movement with reliable community-owned inform

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In January of this year, American political consultant Dr.

A little while ago, Alex Steffen of World Changing offered a critique of the permaculture-inspired Transition Towns initiative--a grass-roots, peak oil/climate change adaptation movement that has gone viral around the world in the past three years . . .

There’s some fascinating new research about “CO2 domes,&rd

David Orr

A year ago, my business partner, Caitlyn Galloway, and I started Little City Gardens.

Driving down the broad avenues of Cleveland, Ohio, was like flipping through the pages of a picture book about the rise and fall of our industrial empire.

People grasp what their drinking water has to do with them.

Weeds growing up through the cracks in the pavement is a fractal assertion of life revealing itself through the cracks of civilization.

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EROI theory is rooted in the biological principle that in order to survive each species on earth must procure more energy from its food than it expends attaining that food.

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