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If you’re not doing politics, you’re not doing enough. Review: Slow Democracy

By Erik Curren | November 26, 2012

Fairfield City Council

"We live in an anti-political moment," wrote David Brooks last week in the New York Times, "when many people — young people especially — think politics is a low, nasty, corrupt and usually fruitless business. It’s much nobler to do community service or just avoid all that putrid noise." Brooks rightly suggests that seeing Steven Spielberg's new film Lincoln will show that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Politics Tagged With: Abraham Lincoln, David Brooks, Food Sovereignty, government, Local, local government, local sovereignty, slow food, Susan Clark, Woden Teachout

Cheer up — things really are as bad as you think

By Erik Curren | November 13, 2012

dark mountain

In last week's election, Obama may have been a better choice than the alternative, but no American president is likely to have much positive impact on climate change, peak oil and the worldwide economic crisis anytime soon. Given the sorry state of national governments, controlled as they are by rapacious corporations driven by the profit motive, there's little chance of either … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: local government, optimism, Paul Kingsnorth, pessimism, philosophy, urban farming

Three French hens

By Staff Reports | August 13, 2012

In response to a European Union directive to divert waste from landfills, local governments across the continent have had to come up with ways to meet the target goals or else face large fines. In France, the microscopic town of Pincé (population: 206) has come up with a particularly creative and logical solution: Backyard chickens for all. What originally began as a joke, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: backyard chickens, France, landfills, local government

Today’s distress is blocking the economy of tomorrow

By Erik Curren | June 15, 2012

If you still know anybody who thinks the economy is in "recovery," just lay this one single statistic on them: one in two recent U.S. college graduates today is unemployed or underemployed, unable to find work in his or her chosen field. "Young adults with bachelor's degrees are increasingly scraping by in lower-wage jobs – waiter or waitress, bartender, retail clerk or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economy Tagged With: local government, relocalization, Staunton, Totnes, United Kingdom

Today, I’m running for city council

By Erik Curren | May 1, 2012

vote for your future poster

I'm a guy who's into the global Transition movement, who worries about peak oil and even thinks that Occupy Wall Street makes some good points. That's why I'm running for public office (see my campaign website). And today is election day. But don't expect to see anything about my race on MSNBC or even in one of those emails asking you to give five bucks to some candidate in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: cities, city council, city governments, climate change, futurology, local government, Staunton, Transition, Virginia

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