On the 6th of August, more than 2,000 peasants gathered at Nabón, Ecuador to firmly say no to transgenic crops and seeds. It was the occasion of the 15th Seeds and Ancestral Knowledge Exchange organized by the “Autonomous Government of …
The IUCN’s Indigenous and Community Conserved Area’s (ICCA) initiative has a new feather in its cap, and that too of the magnificent Philippine Eagle, no less. Symbolically speaking, that is! The ICCA with its local partners in the Mindanao …
Originally written by Peter Beaumont in Battir for The Guardian (Saturday 23 April 2016 17.38 EDT)
In the birthplace of agriculture, traditional crops are dying out. But one woman has a plan to preserve them.
In the rocky hills of …
…Is it possible that the human future depends upon a new sacred story—a story that gives us a reason to care? Could it be a story already embraced by a majority, although it has neither institutional support nor a place
First Published by By Rhonda Fabian on KosmosJournal
Here we summarize the key insights from the study.
By Rhonda Fabian
A growing community of noted authors, local and global activists, world spiritual figures, economists and ecologists (Influencers) are speaking urgently …
First published by Angelique Chrisafis on The Guardian
As night fell over Paris, thousands of people sat cross-legged in the vast …
First published by John Foran, on Resilience.org | MAR 14, 2016
Introduction
We are living through an unprecedented crisis, in a world beset by massive social problems – the obscene poverty and inequality that neoliberal capitalist globalization has wreaked …
Originally written by: Daphne Miller posted Nov 12, 2015 for YES Magazine.
[pullquote align=”full” size=”25″]Whether it’s microbes in the dirt or fresh air—or both—researchers do know this: Gardening is strong medicine[/pullquote]
Gardening is my Prozac. The time I dedicate to …
Originally published on Yes Magazine authored by Neil Thapar.
Our food system is broken and needs to be fixed, many say. But it isn’t broken. In fact, I think it’s working exactly how it was intended. The current food system, …
Originally Published by Cat Johnson on Shareable.net
In 2008, Boston-based user experience designer Benji Mauer was feeling the isolation of working from home. He and his friend Benjamin Spear decided to rent an office together, but they couldn’t find one …
First Published on : http://www.thealternative.in/lifestyle/sweden-become-worlds-first-nation-end-reliance-fossil-fuels/
The Scandinavian nation already meets two-thirds of its electricity requirements from non-fossil fuels energy sources, mainly hydroelectric and nuclear.
The Swedish government announced that they plan on spending an extra 546 million USD as a …
Originally Published by: http://blogs.worldwatch.org/5-eye-opening-global-trends-you-should-know-about/
It’s not easy to keep track of the complex ways in which our everyday choices have an impact on a global scale. But as the world’s population surpasses 7 billion, each of our actions—positive or negative—gets …