An interview with Mark Sundeen, author of The Unsettlers, shows how we don't have to leave society if we want to radically rebuild our world.
Read MoreTo lose this garden because of an unnecessary inner city highway would not just be a loss of beauty and fresh food, it would also be a loss of neighborhood history, positivity and fellowship.
Read MoreHow community gardens can be a catalyst for entrepreneurship and economic development.
Read MoreWe must build places that enable us to see the lives of others with knowledge, love, and compassion. This means getting our hands dirty in the soil of our community.
Read MoreThis year I started my first (micro) garden. It's been an enjoyable experiment for reasons I didn’t even expect, which reach far beyond the food I produced.
Read MoreWe must build places that enable us to see the lives of others with knowledge, love, and compassion. This means getting our hands dirty in the soil of our community.
Read MoreAustin's Neighborhood Partnering Program gives neighborhoods the tools and financial support they need to implement small-scale improvements in their community.
Read MoreA Victory Garden doesn’t just grow healthy food. It builds a regenerative foundation for creating surplus through the active responsibility of its citizens' output. A Victory Garden tests and adjusts the resiliency measures on which public policy sits.
Read MoreWhat do homebuddies do? Homebudding: growing homeyness. (Or in Strong Towns terminology, they create productive places.) Here's a video with examples of homebudding.
Read MoreI love the call and response of the city. We speak to each other through all these subtle gestures - putting out a dog-bowl on a hot day, painting the front door, installing a free library box. It's a relay passed on from one person to another. We each have our own way of expressing kindness or humour to the people around us, and the city becomes a canvas of all these tiny acts of humanity.
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