Articles: Future

What Does a Sustainable Future Look Like?

In a time of looming uncertainties, what would a truly resilient society look like? Farmer and social scientist Chris Smaje…

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Lessons From a Small Country

People say good things sometimes come in small packages, and the little country of Whales is an example of just…

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Survive the Future: Three Principles to Get Started

What guiding principles will you need to not just survive the future, but imagine a better one? To answer this…

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A Small Farm Future COVID-19 Special: For Whom The Bell Tolls

By Chris Smaje, author of the forthcoming book, A Small Farm Future, to be published Fall 2020. This article originally appeared…

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The Importance of Imagination

From What Is to What If author Rob Hopkins is a co-founder of Transition Town Totnes and Transition Network. He…

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Healthy Culture, Society and Mother Earth: Agri-Culture

In Call of the Reed Warbler, Charles Massy’s stunning observations of interaction between nature, culture, and society is nothing short of eye…

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A Call for Regenerative Agriculture: From the Group Up

Farmland covers 38 percent of the Earth’s land area and is a major contributor to climate change. But it doesn’t…

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Fixing the Economy: Radical Thinking for 21st-Century Economists

The economy is a complex, evolving system, and that’s an empowering thought: it means that every one of us can…

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VIDEO TED2018: A healthy economy should be designed to thrive, not grow

What would a sustainable, universally beneficial economy look like? “Like a doughnut,” says Oxford economist Kate Raworth. In a stellar, eye-opening TED2018…

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