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Along with direct action and other forms of resistance, a transformational movement must also have a constructive program that builds new institutions based on the values that the movement aspires to achieve. These may eventually replace the old systems. From small, worker-owned cooperatives to national advocacy groups, hundreds of thousands of people around the country are working to create democratic and sustainable systems that meet the basic needs of all people.

How Traditional Knowledge Is Saving Forgotten Lands

October 21, 2025 Kseniia Popova, Resilience. Create! Brazil, Indigenous Knowledge, Land Conservation, Regenerative Farming

The Instituto Anjos do Sertão is a non-profit family organization based in Canto do Buriti, Brazil. Founded in December 2015 by a Brazilian family, it combines a holistic vision with educational programs in regenerative farming and a research center – all centered around a 5,500-hectare regenerative school farm. Its story begins in 2008 when the founders of Anjos do Sertão purchased the land in the Caatinga region – a unique and neglected biome in the Northeast Region of Brazil. Immediately they faced a critical lack of skilled local labor to work on the farm.

How Tactical Urbanists Make The Water Visible To The Fish

October 20, 2025 Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon, and Aaron Naparstek, Next City. Create! Car-Free Community, Parks, Urban Design, Urbanism

Tactical urbanism has the power to pierce the automotive bubble that so frequently surrounds politicians — sometimes in an almost literal sense, because so many elected officials are driven everywhere. It can force them to see that they can become catalysts for rapid change if they really want to. But the value of these tactics goes well beyond the safety (and frequent smiles) that these interventions provide for cyclists or pedestrians who pass by while they’re in place — or even the permanent infrastructure changes they might inspire.

Oceti Sakowin Treaty Councils Call Emergency Action To Rescue Lakota Language

October 19, 2025 Native News Online. Create! colonization, Indigenous culture, Lakota, Language

The Oceti Sakowin Treaty Councils issue this urgent call to all Lakota people, communities, and leadership: it is time to launch large-scale emergency operations to rescue and restore the Lakota language. The Councils recognize that our language is the living heart of our Nation, and without decisive action, it stands on the brink of irretrievable loss. The Lakota Iyapi (Voice) is the very first source of our inherent sovereignty. It is how we remain close to our ancestors, our Unci and Tunkasila of long ago. We have walked this earth for millions of years, but today we face the near end of our sacred language. Lakota Iyapi is not only the way we communicate with one another, but also the way we speak with the powers of creation.

Closing The Gap Between Housing And Home With Upcycled Furniture

October 18, 2025 Eliana Perozo, Next City. Create! Chicago, Homelessness, Housing, Upcycling

Homelessness in Chicago has surged in recent years, with the number of unhoused Chicagoans tripling last year. As housing costs climb and public funding shrinks, more families are cycling in and out of shelters without the resources to make a new place feel like home. One local nonprofit is tackling that gap, offering support that social service agencies aren’t able to provide. By collecting and upcycling donated furniture, the Chicago-based nonprofit Digs With Dignity designs and furnishes homes for families transitioning out of homelessness, creating spaces that feel comfortable, functional and dignified.

In The Year Of The Cooperative, Rural Grocers Find Power In Partnership

October 14, 2025 Jill Dutton, The Packer. Create! Cooperatives, Food and Agriculture, Food Sovereignty, Grocery Stores, Local Economy

As 2025 marks the United Nations’ International Year of Cooperatives, communities across the U.S. are spotlighting how cooperative models can sustain local economies and strengthen food systems. That mission was front and center during a recent Rural Grocery Initiative webinar that unveiled findings from a two-year project on local sourcing in rural grocery stores. Led by Rial Carver, program director for RGI at Kansas State University, the project was designed to identify innovative ways to help small-town grocers connect with local producers — and, in doing so, keep grocery access alive in communities often bypassed by large retail chains. “Rural grocery stores are anchor institutions,” Carver says in an RGI webinar. “Without them, communities lose out on economic, health and cultural benefits.”

Brazil’s Co-Ops Have Big Asks Ahead Of COP30

October 12, 2025 Anca Voinea, Co-operative News. Create! Brazil, climate crisis, Cooperatives, COP30, Sustainability

With the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) taking place in Belém, Brazil, in November, the country’s co-op movement is trying to boost its presence in climate discussions and reaffirm its commitment to sustainable development. Co-ops are key players in Brazil, accounting for 75% of wheat, 55% of coffee, 53% of corn, 52% of soybeans, 50% of pigs, 46% of milk and 43% of beans produced. The nation’s 4,500 co-ops represent 23 million members. In March, the Brazilian Cooperative Organisation (OCB) published a COP30 Manifesto, after a series of conversations with member organisations and co-op leaders which started at the 15th Brazilian Cooperative Congress in 2024.

An Environmental Triumph 400 Million Years In The Making

October 9, 2025 Ben Seal, Reasons to be Cheerful. Create! Forests, Fungi, Restoration, Soil

Each planting season, Claudia Bashian-Victoroff ventures out into Bole Woods, a 70-acre old-growth forest on the outskirts of Holden Forests & Gardens in the Cleveland suburbs, in search of fungi. But as she navigates the sugar maples, chestnut oaks, American beech and western red cedar that tower overhead, she focuses not on the forest floor but on what lies beneath. Kneeling beside a stand of maples, she clears away the leaf litter to reveal the topsoil and digs up the first few inches, where the vast majority of soil microbes are active.

Postal Banking Once Made Canada Post Profitable

October 6, 2025 Linda McQuaig, Rabble. Create! Austerity, Canada, Postal Banking, Postal Service, Strikes

Mark Carney clearly loves a nation-building project — as long as it’s wildly expensive and is pleasing to corporate interests. That seems to be the takeaway from the prime minister’s decision last week to largely abandon Canada Post, an institution with a vast network of 5,900 outlets across the country that’s been tying Canada together since Confederation. In recent years, Canada Post has lost large amounts of money and is currently in the midst of a strike by postal workers. Carney’s response is to effectively gut it, ending door-to-door mail delivery (where it still exists) and resuming the closure of post offices across the country.

Reshaping The Music Industry Through Solidarity

October 6, 2025 Grassroots Economic Organizing. Create! Arts, Cooperatives, Music, Worker Rights

The music industry doesn’t have to be exploitative. What if artists owned the platforms we depend on? What if musicians shared resources, power, and profits—together? Recorded live at AmericanaFest 2025, this panel explores how music cooperatives are reshaping the industry through solidarity, not exploitation. We discuss: Why artists need alternatives to Spotify and corporate streaming. How cooperatives create sustainable careers for musicians. Building movements rooted in community, equity, and ownership. This conversation is just the beginning. Together, we can build the music industry we actually want to exist in.

How Cities Are Reimagining Shelter For People Who Are Homeless

October 6, 2025 Robert Davis, Next City. Create! Homeless, Shelters, Urban Design, Wellness

Shelters are one of the most contentious topics in the homeless services sector, but a new crop of models seeks to change that paradigm. Homeless shelters have long been criticized as a means of warehousing people who are homeless rather than providing them with a pathway to stable housing. Some unhoused folks have said they experienced violence, sexual abuse and other traumatizing experiences while in shelters. Some advocates have also chided the traditional shelter model for creating high-barrier, treatment-first programs that exclude more unhoused folks than they help. “Everybody who became unhoused experienced some kind of trauma, and then by the time they get to the shelter, they’ve experienced multiple additional traumas and mental illness challenges – all those kinds of things that happen when someone is homeless,” says Lena Miller.

Opening Up Space

October 5, 2025 Gwen Frisbie-Fulton, Working Class Stories. Create! Austerity, Community, Mutual Aid, Public Spaces

“He said ‘just don’t touch my workshop,’” says Sheurle Klingsmith, smiling at her husband, Kirk. “But then one day, he moved his tools out so we could go ahead.” “That’s not exactly how I remember it,” Kirk laughs good-naturedly. Today, Kirk’s tools are pushed back against the wall, and the rest of the space is filled with tables and chairs, art and art supplies. Paintings hang on every wall, and illustrations, beadwork, fabric art, and even chainsaw art are displayed throughout the room. Gesturing to a black bear carved out of a log done by DC Carvings, Sheurle says: “This gentleman was selling his work on the side of the road, so of course I circled back and asked him if he wanted to display some pieces here.” Her eyes scan the room: “There’s a mountain of creativity and talent in this town, but no place to show it.”

How A Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate The Federal Debt Crisis, Part I

October 4, 2025 Ellen Brown, Scheer Post. Create! Big Banks, Federal Debt, Quantitative Easing, Treasury

The Federal Reserve’s independence is currently being challenged by political forces seeking to reshape its mandate. The Fed has not always been independent of Congress and the Treasury. Its independence was formalized only in 1951, with a Treasury-Federal Reserve Accord that was not a law but a policy agreement redefining the relationship of the parties. In the 1930s and 1940s, before the Fed officially became “independent,” it worked with the federal government to fund the most productive period in our country’s history. We can and should do that again. In a Sept. 1 Substack post titled “Fed Faces Biggest Direct Challenge by a President Since JFK – and This Is a Good Thing,” UK Prof. Richard Werner shows that there is no evidence that more independent central banks deliver lower inflation.

From Capital To Commons: A Review

September 30, 2025 Bernard Marszalek, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Create! Capitalism, Decentralization, Energy, The Commons

Environmental news, paradoxically, approaches banality as every day a new horror finds resonance in the media we consume and which consumes us. These daily reports enervate us and lead to resignation. Is our passivity the intention? If we refuse to be immobilized, how do we find a route out of our misery? We don’t suffer from a lack of proffered paths for our “engagement.” A multiplicity of them pursue our attention, many illusory, and often provided as a service for a “slight fee.” In frustration, and as a kind of therapy, the most committed rush to clean a beach, while mostly we sign online petitions, or make donations to allay the futility we feel. The complexity of our ecological predicament, when we are methodically informed, clarifies matters.

What It Takes To Keep Kentucky’s Black-Led Farms Alive

September 29, 2025 Anabel Peterman, Next City. Create! Black America, Black Farmers, Farmers, Kentucky

Near the eastern edge of Fayette County, Kentucky, sits the Coleman Crest Farm in the rural Black hamlet of Uttingertown. That’s where Jim Coleman works the land his great-grandfather tilled as an enslaved person — until he secured his freedom by fighting in the Civil War and returning to purchase the farm more than 130 years ago. Now, Coleman is continuing his family’s farming legacy, but not because it’s easy work. “Yesterday, I was pulling up mulch,” Coleman says, in between administrative calls. “I had harvested hard the day before. Did a little bit of harvesting [yesterday], invoiced it, packaged it, put it in the case, put it in my truck, drove to my customer, and delivered.” Coleman’s 13-acre plot is one of few in the county – and in Kentucky – that’s still Black- owned and operated. And among all farmers, the sheer volume of farmland has fallen, statewide and nationwide.

China Announces Up To 10% Reduction In Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 2035

September 28, 2025 Abdul Rahman, People's Dispatch. Create! China, climate crisis, COP30, greenhouse gases

China declared it will voluntarily reduce its economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions by 7% to 10% from its peak level by 2035, in its attempts to fulfill the requirements of the Paris Agreement. It asked other countries to also “step up actions to realize the beautiful vision of harmony between man and nature and preserve planet earth.” The announcement was made by Chinese President Xi Jinping during his virtual address to the United Nations Climate Summit, which was held alongside the ongoing UNGA summit in New York on Wednesday, September 24. The summit was hosted by UN Secretary General António Guterres along with Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva. Brazil is the host of the next COP30 conference in November.

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