Transition Voice

The magazine on peak oil and the Transition movement

  • Home
  • Books
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Politics
  • Spirit
You are here: Home / Archives for Susan Clark

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

Most Popular Stories

  • Raising a garden bed: build or buy?
  • Meet the woman who makes your kids nag you for products
  • Five Bummer Problems that Make Societies Collapse
  • Utopia: Out there?
  • Morality in the sphere of education
  • Beyond capitalism with a human face: a radically simple way
  • Yes, you can brew kombucha
  • Confessions of an edge-dweller
  • Breaking the System: Activists, Be Careful What You Wish For
  • Is America the most materialistic society in the history of the world?
  • Home
  • Books
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Politics
  • Spirit
  • About us
  • Resources
  • Contact

© 2022 Transition Voice · Web design by Curren Media Group · Log in