Camp for Climate Action
Image by Mia Overgaard The Camp for Climate Action 2009 is almost upon us – now’s the time to gather ourselves and prepare to swoop. Convinced that the response to climate change needs more? Ready to...
View Article200 Urban Farms in Havana
Havana relies on 200 urban farms known as organoponicos The vegetable gardeners of Havana By Sarah Murch BBC Two’s Future of Food August 2009 Climate change, drought, population growth – they could...
View ArticleThe Pedagogy of Collapse
I owe John Michael Greer a beer, or maybe two. Now that he’s moved to this half of the continent, I may yet have a chance to offer him one. Over the years of writing, Greer and I have argued and...
View ArticleTowards a Dark Mountain reading list
This post by Dougald Hine originally appeared on the Dark Mountain blog Over the last few weeks, a lot of people have asked us to suggest books which pick up on the themes of this project. In time,...
View ArticleAgroforestry Found On Nearly Half The World’s Farms
For centuries, farmers have placed trees among their crops to enhance soil health, raise marketable fruits or nuts, and protect row crops from damaging winds. Yet agroforestry, as the practice is...
View Articleso when you say collapse…
This funny thing used to happen when my friend Todd and I discussed peak oil and energy descent back when we were just coming to grips with all of that. One of us would begin to explain a particular...
View ArticleLondon Vegan Festival
The London Vegan Festival this year took place in Kensington Town Hall, and was absolutely heaving. Usually, the odds of bumping into another vegan are slightly higher than those of two Esperanto...
View ArticleWill The Brixton Pound Buy A Brighter Future?
by Leo Hickman Tomorrow the Transition Town movement launches a currency designed to boost local trade and bring communities closer together A Brixton market stallholder . . . ‘It’s Monopoly money,’...
View ArticleCancún: No agreement is better than a bad agreement!
December 9 statement by La Via Campesina: We call on humanity to act immediately to rebuild the life of all of nature, applying the concept of “life in balance.” Members of La Vía Campesina from more...
View ArticleTransition Tufnell Park
Transition Tufnell Park (TTP) do the Big Dig Up! TPP, part of the wider Transition Network, are one of the latest Transition initiatives in London. Read more of our posts about Transition for more info...
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