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Miss GayleMissGayle@urbanists.social
2025-02-19

"Many people think going local is buying 5 acres, building a house & growing a garden. That can be part of it, but if you don’t know your neighbors, share your produce, drive the neighbor kids to school & all the mundane tasks of belonging, you are not, yet, going local in any useful sense."

Read the Article: resilience.org/stories/2025-02

"When you go local, you are in a different world, at a different pace..."

#ReLocalization #Sustainability #Resilience #Community #DeGrowth #SlowFood #ShopLocal

7 ideas for going local Vicki Robin, originally published by Coming of Aging February 14, 2025 This world is not a billiard ball table where we advance by banging into one another. It is a world of relationships, constantly changing, everything in some way feeding everything else. It is a world of mutuality and reciprocity. Teaser image of the author's family wearing silly bunny ears and hand-shaped floppy headbands credit: Author supplied. "For me, going local isn’t just an infrastructure project, or buying a house. It isn’t getting big grants for big projects as a consultant, though that is needed. If you make yourself useful, show up, join in, buy in, stay put, then you can be a trusted leader as the whole community adjusts to the twilight of the American Empire."
Miss GayleMissGayle@urbanists.social
2025-01-27

As long as our community is at the "mercy" of big business, we can't survive, much less thrive. We must stop the rape & pillage of our labor & resources. We must bypass their system.

"We must find ways to work together where we can, in our cities & states, communities & bio-regions, to build the kind of future we want. Otherwise we are at the mercy of forces that will overwhelm us."

resilience.org/stories/2025-01

#ReLocalization #Community #PublicBanking #Organizing #Sustainability #Affordability

To confront the oligarchy, we need to build power at the community level Patrick Mazza, originally published by The Raven January 24, 2025 If social, economic, ecological & political breakdowns intensify, we will have created strong communities capable of weathering the storms. We cannot know if this will be enough. What we can know is that we will be pursuing the kind of future that leads to a world more in tune with the needs of people & nature. We have to try. Teaser image credit: Community fridge & public bookcase in New York City. By Middleground1 – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=118122466 The key is gaining control of money through creation of public banking & other community financing tools. These can fund development of cooperative housing, worker coops, local food networks, circular economies, community energy installations, and other alternative economic and social models. The central proposition is to build models that move beyond purely bottom line considerations to serve the needs of people & nature. There are plenty of obstacles... Business interests determined to perpetuate existing power structures, the tendency of...groups to narrowly focus on their own issues & support bases at the expense of broader alignments. But the situations confronting us, promising increasing crises while the institutions of national govt become less effective in dealing with them, indeed helping to create them, will drive us together.
Miss GayleMissGayle@urbanists.social
2025-01-21

A long rambly article that starts with the environment and ends with politics and oligarchs...but I wanted to share this part, which I think is the most important part.

dendroica.substack.com/p/the-s

The "market" is not some magic thing that came to us from the void. We make it ourselves, every day. And if the greedy will not voluntarily stop victimizing people, then local and state laws must step in to limit them.

Nobody "deserves" to victimize others.

#Economics #Affordability #ReLocalization

The Stories We Tell Reframing shifts, shifting frames Markael Luterra, Jan 21 If I am a landlord or a surgeon or a medicine maker, my market is not free. My customers will willingly pay their life savings and go into debt to access my services. If the market isn’t free, then morality applies. Or it certainly ought to. If I own an apartment building, and my per-unit monthly cost (fixed expenses plus a living wage for labor) is $600, and I’m charging $1500, and I’m buying fancy cars and more properties while my tenants tread water and rack up debt and abandon hopes of ever owning a home, then I don’t have tenants, I have victims. If I run a hospital, and all of my doctors and administrators have big houses on the hill, and a couple from the trailer park arrives badly injured from an accident that totaled their car, and I mend their bodies and then send them home with a bill that is three times what I charge my insured patients, and that bill wipes out their meager savings and lands them on the street, then I don’t have patients, I have victims. If I’m a successful, wealthy business owner, and my employees earn minimum wage and live in old RVs and qualify for food stamps, then I don’t have workers, I have victims. We can keep trying to implement systems and safety nets so the people who have had all of their wealth extracted don’t freeze or starve, or we can stop victimizing our neighbors already.
The Lifeboat Academylifeboatacademy
2025-01-18

"Conventional economic wisdom is a dictatorship of capitalist fictions presented as unassailable reality." ― Nesrine Malik Image of Pacific Northwest field in winter, grasses laying down and heavy with rain, a line of evergreens fading into the mists on the horizon. @lifeboatacademy
The Lifeboat Academylifeboatacademy
2025-01-17

“If we take care of nature, nature will take care of us.” — Sir David Attenborough Image of a Douglas fir in a hedgerow with a tumble down rail fence.
The Lifeboat Academylifeboatacademy
2025-01-16

Nature and psychology work the same way.

Nature and psychology work the same way. "Don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots down there are riotous." — Rumi Image of a hazy Pacific Northwest dawn, the sky coloured in pastels and a dewy gray and brown field stretching to a near horizon of Douglas firs in the mist. @lifeboatacademy
The Lifeboat Academylifeboatacademy
2025-01-15

“We never know how our small activities will affect others through the invisible fabric of our connectedness. In this exquisitely connected world, it’s never a question of ‘critical mass.’ It’s always about critical connections.” — Grace Lee Boggs Image of the cut face of an old stump, grey with age and weathering. Growing out of the stump is a turkey tail mushroom and a few bits of fresh green mosses.
The Lifeboat Academylifeboatacademy
2025-01-14

“The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.” — N. Scott Momaday Image of a pool of water with tree roots wrapped around it and ferns and grass peppered about. The pool reflects the plants around it and the sky and canopy of evergreens above it. @lifeboatacademy
The Lifeboat Academylifeboatacademy
2025-01-13

"I don't know what word in the English language - I can't find one - applies to people who are willing to sacrifice the literal existence of organized human life so they can put a few more dollars into highly stuffed pockets; the word 'evil' doesn't even begin to approach it." — Noam Chomsky @lifeboatacademy
The Lifeboat Academylifeboatacademy
2025-01-12

"The climate crisis reveals that our civilization has never really been organized around science, contrary to the usual Enlightenment narrative. It is organized around capital. Science is embraced when it serves the interests of capital, and is often ignored when it does not." ― Jason Hickel Image of a Pacific Northwest winter sky, grey and overcast, looking through bare tree branches across a wet field to the edge of an evergreen forest.
The Lifeboat Academylifeboatacademy
2025-01-11

“Imbalanced systems, whether internal or external, will tend to polarize.” ― Richard C Schwartz Image: close up of a head of January King cabbage.
The Lifeboat Academylifeboatacademy
2025-01-10

We create as we speak because words make worlds within us. If you doubt this, try saying the word “waterfall.” What do you see, hear, smell, taste, experience? How do you feel? Now try on the word “supermarket,” or worse, “traffic.” What do you see, hear, and feel now? A single word is powerful enough to create an entire sensory experience in someone who hears, reads, or thinks it. If you were in a laboratory with electrodes attached to your head, a neuroscientist could track your brain’s response. If a single word can do that much, think of the possibilities of a line, a sentence, a paragraph, a page—or a sequence of pages! ― Leslie Davenport Image of a sky peppered with small clouds of different colours. Likely a sky at dusk or dawn.
The Lifeboat Academylifeboatacademy
2025-01-09

“Whoever our students may be, whatever the subject we teach, ultimately we teach who we are.” — Parker J. Palmer Picture of the moon shining through a canopy of cedars.
The Lifeboat Academylifeboatacademy
2025-01-08

“Imagination may be the most essential, uniquely human capacity – creating both the dead-end crises of our time and the doorway through them.” — Bill Plotkin. Background is a moss-covered fallen tree with dry leaves covering it in a deep forest, photo taken in a dramatic perspective - width of the trunk at the bottom of the image tapering dramatically to a point at the top of the image.
The Lifeboat Academylifeboatacademy
2025-01-07

"The metacrisis is not a technical challenge, it is an adaptive challenge." — Erik Fernholm in interview with Nate Hagens Detail of the base layer of a hugelkultur bed comprised of thick alder stick ends meeting, all in various stages of desiccation and decay.
Miss GayleMissGayle@urbanists.social
2025-01-06

We all have some decisions to make.

resilience.org/stories/2024-12

"Each of us has agency to reinforce one of these pathways — status quo, regressive, or pro-social/pro-nature — in our own lives and communities. But perhaps as important as the question of what we do to respond to this political moment and the larger Great Unraveling is the question of how we comport ourselves."

#Sustainability #Economy #ReLocalization #DeGrowth #Environment #Culture #Community

An Open Letter to the Post Carbon Institute/Resilience.org Community by Asher Miller, originally published by Resilience.org December 30, 2024 Like so many people and organizations, we at Post Carbon Institute have been reflecting and recalibrating since November 5th. Wherever you fall on the political spectrum, Trump’s victory, along with his campaign pledges and cabinet nominations, should be an indication that the status quo is in the rearview mirror if not actually crumpled and smoking on the side of the road. Yet, as dedicated followers of PCI and readers of resilience.org well know, the status quo of continued growth, consumption, globalization, and exploitation has been steering us slowly but surely to the edge of collapse... There are truly frightening, cruel, and disastrous possibilities to consider, including policies that must be resisted. But as I recently discussed with my colleagues Jason Bradford and Rob Dietz (and as PCI’s Theory of Change illustrates), cracks in the status quo also create space for positive alternatives to emerge... The team at Post Carbon [is] also committed to ensuring that our how will be guided by values of authenticity, truth-telling, humility, generosity, reciprocity, respect, and relationality. That means exploring challenging topics, supporting meaningful connections and interactions with and between our community of readers and allies, and always being honest with ourselves and you — even about the things we don’t know...
The Lifeboat Academylifeboatacademy
2025-01-06

In the real world there is no nature vs. nurture argument, only an infinitely complex and moment-by- moment interaction between genetic and environmental effects. — Gabor Maté @lifeboatacademy Evening winter landscape, Douglas firs and cedar trees festooned with snow drenched in blue crepuscular light.
The Lifeboat Academylifeboatacademy
2025-01-04

“Be curious, not judgmental.” — Marguerite and Marshall Shearer @lifeboatacademy Against a grassy background, between a naked forearm and a dirty hand, a dozens garlic scapes being worn like bangles.
The Lifeboat Academylifeboatacademy
2025-01-03

“The power of a theory is exactly proportional to the diversity of situations it can explain.” — Elinor Ostrom @lifeboatacademy A forest path lined with mid-growth, large Douglas firs and Western cedars and ostrich ferns, sun filtering through the trees to the right suggesting an opening or a field. Standing in the middle of the path is our dog Zelda, looking back at the camera.
The Lifeboat Academylifeboatacademy
2024-12-30

"Nature sustains itself, even flourishes, through integrity and reciprocity." ― Steven Morris @lifeboatacademy Closeup of big leaf maple tree trunk with a hole in it showing daylight through it. Mosses grow on the bark and sprouts for new very young branches are coming out of the hole.

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