Community Resilience and Being the Change
Written by Community Solutions Senior Fellow Don Hollister“Perform random acts of kindness,” reads a car bumper sticker. Boy Scouts pledge to do a good deed daily. My first reactions to these dictums...
View ArticleHow to Fight Big Oil: Join Your Neighbors
Written by Sarah van GelderOriginally posted on yesmagazine.orgThe last few weeks and months have seen major victories for communities resisting oil trains, coal terminals, pipelines, and strip mines....
View ArticleFinding Our Frontlines
Originally posted on Introduction by John ForanThis special edition of Earth News is devoted to attempting to begin to tell the story of what has been happening at Standing Rock through reports from...
View ArticleDonald Trump and the impossible destination of globalism
Written by Community Solutions fellow Kurt CobbOriginally posted on resourseinsights.blogspot.comIn a recent column, The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman shows himself to be as good a spokesman...
View ArticleIntroduction to 'Deface the Currency'
Written by Community Solutions fellow Samuel AlexanderOriginally posted on simplicitycollective.comBelow I have posted the table of contents and the introduction to my new book of dialogues, Deface the...
View ArticleMitigating Oligarchy
Originally posted on turn21.orgMitigating OligarchyMost global citizens are not revolutionaries, so how can we take power from the wealthy without spilling blood in the streets. In today’s...
View ArticleDeepwater Horizon and our emerging 'normal' catastrophes
Written by Community Solutions fellow Kurt CobbOriginally posted on resourceinsights.comWhile watching the recently released film "Deepwater Horizon" about the catastrophic well blowout in the Gulf of...
View ArticleReturn To Joy
Written by Andrew Harvey and Community Solutions fellow Carolyn Baker : Foreword by Francis WellerOriginally posted on carolynbaker.netMythologist Joseph Campbell often returned to a phrase in his...
View ArticleVoters Win More Solar Energy Options Despite Opposition From Big Energy
Written by Adam LynchOriginally posted on yesmagazine.orgCorporate-backed utilities have quashed solar initiatives for years, but residents fought back.Commonly topping any list of obstacles to a home...
View ArticleIs President Trump the reincarnation of President Tyler?
Originally posted on resourceinsights.blogspot.comWritten by Community Solutions fellow Kurt CobbMany commentators are saying that the election of Donald Trump, a novice who has never held political...
View ArticleAny Graphic Designers Out There? A Call Out for Collaborators
Originally posted on simplicitycollective.comWritten by Community Solutions fellow Samuel Alexander The Simplicity Institute is mobilising for a new ‘culture jamming’ project next year and we’ve...
View ArticleWater: It’s Time To Make It Personal
Water is critical to life and clean water is critical to a healthy life. Unfortunately, we are taking water for granted and allowing it to be wasted and poisoned. Without clean and plentiful water, our...
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Soil Health Profile
Originally posted on USDA websiteWritten by conference speaker David Brandt Ohio soil health pioneer forges new frontier in farmingWhile David and Kendra Brandt like what they see from the soil health...
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Peter Bane discusses how to cool the planet with natural systems
Originally posted on bobthegreenguy.comWritten by Community Solutions fellow Peter Bane Peter Bane has outlined what Walter Jehne presented about cooling the planet. I think this has the power to pull...
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Framing Audacious Goals
Written by Community Solutions Executive Director Susan Jennings Early last December, I and three Community Solutions board members attended a three-day seminar with Australian microbiologist Walter...
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Which Species Are We Sure We Can Live Without?
Originally posted on resourceinsights.blogspot.comWritten by Community Solutions Fellow Kurt Cobb As a new administration takes over in Washington, both houses of Congress and the presidency will be in...
View ArticleMore soil organic matter makes more rain
Originally posted on BeefProducer.comWritten by Alan Newport Some meteorologists say up to half of the rainfall on a continent comes from the...
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Climate Change Requires our Full Attention Now and Biosystems Offer Hope to...
Written by Community Solutions by Community Solutions fellow Peter Bane Global temperatures are rising at unprecedented rates along with increases in CO2 in the atmosphere and oceans. Last year...
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Feedback Loops
Written by Community Solutions Executive Director Susan Jennings The notion of feedback loops is an important part of the climate conversation, as climate researchers note that the positive...
View ArticleFertile Health: Parallels between Sustainable Agriculture and Sustainable...
Written by Healthy Soils Symposium Didi PershouseOriginally Posted on postgrowth.orgThe microscope, the telescope, and the deep-sea camera have helped us to rediscover that we are part of a vast...
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