Dismantle Civilisation

Global citizens together committing to a revolutionary spirit of action are the Earth and humanity’s last best hope.
A sentiment that we agree with entirely. This article by Dr. Glen Barry at EcoEarth.info tells it like it is, and suggests that there are many millions of us who recognise that the present economic system is devastating … Read more »

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As house prices in US and Europe continue to plummet, Sharon Astyk asks this question, with an inspiring and positive answer.
The first is to shift your thinking. Until not too long ago, people rarely thought of their homes, primarily as assets. Your home is, well, your home. Its value lies not … Read more »

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By Sarah van Gelder and Doug Pibel, YES! Magazine.
Reprinted from Alternet.
Rebuilding

What sort of society do we want to rebuild? What will expand our life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness without diminishing the chances for other people, now and in the future, to have the same?
Here are some of the things we’ll need to do:

Economic policies … Read more »

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Hugh Fearnley Wittingstall, author of River Cottage books and TV series in the UK, has come up with a great idea to try to connect people with land they dont use to people who want access to land for growing food etc.
What is Landshare?
With allotment waiting lists massively over-subscribed and people right across the country … Read more »

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organictobe.org
With industrialization has come a general depreciation of work. As the price of work has gone up, the value of it has gone down, until it is now so depressed that people simply do not want to do it anymore. We can say without exaggeration that the present national ambition of the United States is … Read more »

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Bolivia and Venezuela’s expulsion of their US ambassadors exposes yet another faultline in north American foreign policy
By Richard Gott, the Guardian, and Informationclearinghouse.info
On the 35th anniversary of the military overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile on September 11, 1973, which had the overt support of the United States, the presidents of Bolivia and Venezuela have … Read more »

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Website by Paul Chefurka, that comes to similar conlusions as we do.
The Growth of Hierarchy
The shift to settled cultivation entrained a host of other changes. Our diet was dramatically impoverished. Levels of chronic disease and malnutrition increased. Levels of social violence escalated. However, the most significant change was the introduction of … Read more »

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Here’s something a bit different, that a small company is doing to encourage tree planting locally, in the area that it operates. We like this idea, and wonder if other companies and businesses might do something similar to encourage the planting of orchards etc.
As we’ve said many times, its the small local actions that are … Read more »

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News article from ABC News.
Cuba’s urban farming program has been a stunning, and surprising, success. The farms, many of them on tiny plots like Bouza’s, now supply much of Cuba’s vegetables. They also provide 350,000 jobs nationwide with relatively high pay and have transformed eating habits in a nation accustomed to a less-than-ideal diet of […] Read more »

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Another inspiring article about food and the wonders of hemp.
The latest “crisis” spreading throughout the world, the food crisis, may actually backfire on the giant capitalists reaping great profits from all they have sown without mercy for nearly a century. The US food crisis is in part being experienced because during the past 80 […] Read more »

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