Slow Money: Reconnecting The Economy to Soil, Biodiversity, and Food Quality, By Woody Tasch
As long as money accelerates around the planet, divorced from where we live, our befuddlement will continue. As long as the way we invest is divorced from how we live and how we consume, our befuddlement will worsen. As long as the way we invest uproots companies, putting them in the hands of a broad, shallow pool of absentee shareholders whose primary goal is the endless growth of their financial capital, our befuddlement at the depletion of our social and natural capital will only deepen.
What Lies At The Core of Pattern Language, and Why Should We Care? By Carolyn Baker
Many individuals involved with Transition, including Rob Hopkins, have become fascinated with the work of Christopher Alexander and his development of pattern language. Long before there was a Transition model, Alexander was studying patterns and noticing that any...
Environmental Movement Beginning to Understand That All Solutions Are Local
ORIGINAL ARTICLE By Juliet Eilperin Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, December 20, 2010; 11:16 PM As 2010 comes to a close, U.S. environmentalists are engaged in their most profound bout of soul-searching in more than a decade. Their top policy priority –...