Last night I watched MILK, a film based on the life of San Francisco City Supervisor and Gay/Civil Rights Activist Harvey Milk. Milk was assassinated by a rival city politician in 1978 after being a catalyst and leader for the gay rights movement across the United States throughout the 70’s. So what does this have [...]
The next ten years will not look like the last ten. They will be a shock to many people. Theories like petrocollapse will become mainstream. The first world will begin to look like the second and third world.
Industrialized Countries Backslide
If you want to see what the next decade will look like, look no further than [...]
For the past two and a half months the Montreal Permaculture Guild has been giving classes on Urban Permaculture issues. Between forty and fifty people show up every week to learn and practice sustainability, regeneration and community building. So what is it that’s been making this class, run out of a back-alley community center, so [...]
Walking into the abandonned building in Montreal’s Point St-Charles neighbourhood was like finding the door to Narnia. Reuptedly one of Montreal’s tougher areas, it also has one of the strongest feelings of community I’ve seen around here. This old bank has been the site of organizing for an Autnomous Social Center that would allow freedom [...]
Twinkle Rudberg’s husband was stabbed to death by a 14 year old gang member. We hear equally violent stories most days of our lives. What’s different about this one is that, rather than seeing this boy as a born criminal, Twinkle chose to see him as a victim of a society which fosters isolation and [...]
Locking up the land has been a great way to concentrate wealth, and for a minority to dominate the majority. In England .28 percent of the population owns 64 percent of the land. In the United States the top one percent of the population now owns more than the bottom 95 percent. The rest of [...]
We are no more able to find our way forward living as Homo modern as we are living as Homo hunter-gatherer. Both ways are blocked. Living today on the infinite growth treadmill as Homo modern results in the death of our planet. Homo sapien has exploded our population to a level that we can no [...]
Divide and conquer has been a tactic for too long to not be obvious at this point, yet fragmentation between groups and individuals working for social change persists. Within the bubbles of our daily trouble-shooting we lose sight of the larger picture. While it is definitely essential for us to focus our energies on community [...]
The City of San Francisco is initiating a brilliant new pilot project aimed at integrating Environmental Service Learning(ESLI, or Environmental Service Learning Initiative) into high school curriculums. What could be more important than training the next generation to be stewards of the earth?
Beginning with seven high schools around the city, among them Mission High School [...]
Plant guilds are formed when we intentionally grow plants that are mutually beneficial to each other near one another. This is also sometimes called a “community of plants”. Companion planting is also related to this practice. This is both an excellent theory to follow when creating permaculture garden spaces, and also when working to organize [...]
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