ABC Science of Friendship
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Read More ABC Science of FriendshipPOSITIVE ALTERNATIVES
putting it to work in the real world, things people are doing
Modeling For Change
Buckminster Fuller was quoted as saying: “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete” {
Read More Modeling For ChangeWEB3 monetising community
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Community-Based Marketing: The Future of Business : Social Media Examiner
Read More WEB3 monetising communityfood is too expensive and it lacks nutrition
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I’m (Pradeepa Tennakoon) originally from Sri Lanka and we eat a fair amount of of green leaves.
Read More food is too expensive and it lacks nutritionWhat is community (one)
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I am having this chat with someone about BrisLETS “community”The young people are yearning for community I think you are part of a community if you get COVID and two people check in to see how you are and if you need something ? See What is community two
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I also think that we have been conned into buying services as a substitute for community – age care, support workers etc Q: Does your $20 BrisLETs fee buy you a lifetime community ?A: NO, you can’t buy community you have to reach out to people and build a community. It can’t be couriered to…
Read More What is community (two)Azolla – Climate Foundation
Source: Azolla – Climate Foundation
Read More Azolla – Climate FoundationSustainability Group Facilitation on Societal Disruption and Collapse: Insights from Deep Adaptation
Group Facilitation on Societal Disruption and Collapse: Insights from Deep Adaptation
by Jem Bendell
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planetOfWeeds
“Are you hopeful?” I ask.
Given that hope is a duty from which paleontologists are exempt, I’m surprised when he answers, “Yes, I am.”
Read More planetOfWeedsWomen are turning the tide on climate policy worldwide, and may launch a new era for Australia
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Read More Women are turning the tide on climate policy worldwide, and may launch a new era for AustraliaCollapsology – Wikipedia
“The term collapsology is a neologism used to designate the transdisciplinary study of the risks of collapse of industrial civilization.[1] It is concerned with the “general collapse of societies induced by climate change, scarcity of resources, vast extinctions, and natural disasters.”[2] Although the concept of civilizational or societal collapse had already existed for many years, collapsology focuses its attention on contemporary, industrial, and globalized societies.”
Source: Collapsology – Wikipedia
Read More Collapsology – WikipediaDeep Adaptation – Wikipedia
Post thumbnailResilience: what do we most value that we want to keep, and how?
Relinquishment: what do we need to let go of so as not to make matters worse?
Restoration: what could we bring back to help us with these difficult times?
Reconciliation: with what and whom shall we make peace as we awaken to our mutual mortality?
Solutions | Project Drawdown
Each solution reduces greenhouse gases by avoiding emissions and/or by sequestering carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere. Source: Solutions | Project Drawdown
Read More Solutions | Project DrawdownThe Soil and the Worker • SftP Magazine
This issue on food, agriculture, land, and labor is released in June 2022. Buy it in print now! Source: The Soil and the Worker • SftP Magazine
Read More The Soil and the Worker • SftP MagazineThe Radical Roots of Community Supported Agriculture – Resilience
Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) is one of those rare ideas which combine transformative potential with an elegant simplicity. The CSA model of funding and sustaining locally-rooted agriculture has grown exponentially around the globe over the past four decades.
Read More The Radical Roots of Community Supported Agriculture – ResilienceWhat an Ecological Civilization Looks Like:
Post thumbnailA society based on natural ecology might seem like a far-off utopia—yet communities everywhere are already creating it.
Read More What an Ecological Civilization Looks Like:Participatory Democracy
We are told that states and the dominion they impose, however dysfunctional and destructive they may be, are an inevitable and irreplaceable form of human organisation. Bookchin and those he has inspired help us to challenge this claim.
Read More Participatory DemocracyDoughnut Economics
Post thumbnailhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/12/doughnut-growth-economics-book-economic-model In Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist, Kate Raworth of Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute reminds us that economic growth was not, at first, intended to signify wellbeing. Simon Kuznets, who standardised the measurement of growth, warned: “The welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measure of…
Read More Doughnut EconomicsPrivate Sufficiency, Public Luxury
How is it possible to own land? I find it remarkable that this basic question is so seldom asked. The current pattern of ownership and control of land lies at the heart of many of our biggest dysfunctions: the collapse of wildlife and ecosystems, the exclusion and marginalization of so many people, the lack of housing in many cities—indeed, in many parts of the world—the lack of public space in cities, our exclusion from the countryside.
Read More Private Sufficiency, Public LuxuryEuropean heat wave 20 July 2022
Post thumbnailHeatwaves have become more frequent, more intense, and last longer because of human-induced climate change. German Environment Minister Steffi Lemke said the climate crisis meant the country had to rethink its preparations for very hot weather, drought and flooding.
Wildfires were still burning a day after several French cities including Nantes in the west saw their hottest-ever day.
More than 30,000 people have had to flee, with several camp sites destroyed and emergency shelters set up for evacuees.
Read More European heat wave 20 July 2022How hot is too hot for humans
All told, the evidence continues to mount that climate change is not just a problem for the future. It is one that humanity is currently facing and must tackle head-on.
what about the other species
Read More How hot is too hot for humansRevolution or Apocalypse
Post thumbnailSocial Tipping Processes
Societal transformations are necessary to address critical global challenges, such as mitigation of anthropogenic climate change and reaching UN sustainable development goals. Recently, social tipping processes have received increased attention, as they present a form of social change whereby a small change can shift a sensitive social system into a qualitatively different state due to strongly self-amplifying (mathematically positive) feedback mechanisms. Social tipping processes with respect to technological and energy systems, political mobilization, financial markets and sociocultural norms and behaviors have been suggested as potential key drivers towards climate action.
Read More Social Tipping ProcessesCLIMATE CRISIS
It’s been a slow-building crisis in human terms but it seems to be upon us. We need cooperation at a never before seen scale – or not
Read More CLIMATE CRISISGuerilla Gardening
Guerrilla gardening is the act of gardening – raising food, plants, or flowers – on land that the gardeners do not have the legal rights to cultivate, such as abandoned sites, areas that are not being cared for, or private property. It encompasses a diverse range of people and motivations, ranging from gardeners who spill over their legal boundaries to gardeners with a political purpose, who seek to provoke change by using guerrilla gardening as a form of protest or direct action. This practice has implications for land rights and land reform; aiming to promote re-consideration of land ownership in order to assign a new purpose or reclaim land that is perceived to be in neglect or misused. Some gardeners work at night, in relative secrecy, in an effort to make the area more useful or attractive, while others garden during the day for publicity.
Read More Guerilla GardeningThe people building edible cities
Post thumbnailBy 2050, 70% of the world’s population will live in urban areas. Can a new generation of farmers reduce complex and vulnerable supply chains by bringing nature back into our cities? Source: The people building edible cities
Read More The people building edible citiesOne-Acre Permaculture Garden Feeds 50 Families
One-acre garden provides fruit, veggies and eggs for 50 families with very little labor More and more people are learning growing food doesn’t have to be hard work. When you work with nature instead of against it, it does much of the work for you. It’s called permaculture. While permaculture […] Source: One-Acre Permaculture Garden…
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