Dumbo Feather

Berry Liberman Nathan Scolaro, Helena Norberg-Hodge James Rewell Jasmin Daly Miranda Campbell Danny Almagor, Mitra Anderson-Oliver, Sally Beatie, Sieta Beckwith, Robyn Davidson, Ella Rose Goninan, Clint Hare, Catherine Ingram, Alex Jensen, Anja Lyngb

When people empty supermarket shelves in a rampage of panic buying, it makes the news. When people charter buses to travel from Melbourne and Sydney to raid the shelves of regional supermarkets, that makes the news. When people come to blows in a sup

One of my favourite cartoons, by the wonderfully weird Gary Larson, is of a crisis clinic on fire, floating down a river, about to plunge over a waterfall. That’s what my life was like in 2008, the year I decided to divorce, start paying child suppor

Local. A simple concept with the potential to change the world. The antidote to consumer capitalism. The key to solving our seemingly endless ecological crises. A guiding principle to take us back home: to community, to the natural world, and to pros

I remember writing years ago about how lovely it would be if, for just one month, the whole human world went quiet. I imagined a beautiful stillness descending on the streets, so that we could begin to think again, contemplate our situation, remember

People around the world are re-imagining how they live and interact with one another in their local communities. From sharing resources and convening around planning ideas to showing up for each other in times of crisis, the following communities are

Walking into the elaborate urban experiment that is Holzmarkt, a sign over the entrance declares, “Big dreams need space and courageous investors.” In the fast-changing social and economic landscape of Berlin, it has miraculously achieved both. Holzm

The Village Well in the simplest terms is a local lending organisation, similar to a bank. It’s an alternative to putting money with one of the big banks. As we know, banks take the money you deposit, give you a small return, and then lend that money

The dramatic Mt Nardi/Terania fires of November 2019 made climate change very real and personal for our small rural community of The Channon in Northern NSW. Our rainforests were burning—the same rainforests that had been protected from logging in th

As our social, economic and political worlds are being reshaped through crisis, we believe a more just equilibrium is possible on the other side. Clean money and community-focussed banks are not only possible, they are essential to a world where peop

We have stopped. A pandemic encircles the world. Many of us are either partially or entirely isolated, keeping our distances. The planes are mostly grounded, the non-essential stores are closed. The hospitals are filled with people who are sick and d

The Great Way is not difficult If you are easy in your preferences. When grasping and repelling are both absent Everything becomes clear and undisguised. In the slightest resistance, however Heaven and earth are set infinitely apart. The Way is perfe