Discover the world of mutual credit: a means of exchange that doesn’t involve conventional money, interest or banks, and is based on networks of businesses, traders and individuals who get to know and trust each other.
While there is considerable commentary on the current situation in Afghanistan the literature on the futures of the nation is sparse. This article seeks to address this by developing scenarios on the possible futures of Afghanistan.
Resistance to corporate rule at the policy level will need to be coupled with the generation of alternatives, to fill the gaps left by the departing old system.
What can living locally teach us about change-making? A restrospect on a year of local engagement, complete with the top ten lessons Neal Gorenflo took from his local living experiment.
Through her own childhood experience and the making of short film, One Word Sawalmem, director, Natasha Deganello Giraudie shares the core lessons that she has learned about indigenous cultures.
What effect do natural and other disasters have on the underlying culture of a community? Through the lessons of The Response podcast, book, and film we’re learning that they bring out the best in people and strengthen community ties.
Regeneration is about more than just ‘net positive impact’ or ‘doing good’. It is about evolving the capacity to manifest the unique and irreplaceable gift of every person, community and place in service to the life-regenerating context in which we are all embedded.
We need to address the failures of capitalism and its ineffective reforms head-on by creating decentralized and cooperative local economies, emphasizing local production with local resources, to meet local needs, and to build local wealth.
Certainly, global warming will negatively effect certain resources and thus reduce economic growth—but, ironically, few economists will admit that degrowth may be the only solution to solve climate change.
“The Corona Chronicles” by Ralph Thurm is a must-read for all those that want to move to wiser action, beyond empty sustainability promises, fatalism or the illusion of progress.
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