Sustainability

Food Waste Isn’t Just About What We Throw Away

July 11, 2026 Beverly Popoola, Resilience. Create! Environment, Finance and the Economy, Food Security, Food Waste, Sustainability

Back in June, I arrived at the 2026 ReFED Food Waste Solutions Summit expecting conversations centered on food recovery, diversion strategies, and emerging technologies. Those conversations happened. But I left thinking about something much larger. Across discussions on policy, technology, supply chains, and community partnerships, a different pattern emerged: food waste rarely appeared as an isolated issue. Instead, it surfaced as a signal of deeper system failures and missed connections. The more I listened, the harder it became to think of food waste as simply a waste problem.

A Brief Introduction To The Bioregional Movement

July 10, 2026 Karie Crisp, Resilience. Create! Bioregions, climate crisis, Sustainability, Transformation

The contemporary bioregional movement emerged from the 1960s counterculture, anti-war activism, ecological thought, and back-to-the-land experiments, but the impulse behind it is far older. Human societies have historically developed in relationship with particular landscapes, and for most of human history, culture was inseparable from place. Today, such place-based relationships remain especially evident within Indigenous and other Earth-based traditions. Northern California became one of the movement’s early centers. A network of writers, artists, activists, and organizers sought to renew relationships among humans, the more-than-human world, and the places they inhabited.

Small Farms Should Stop Trying To Compete

June 1, 2026 Gunnar Rundgren, Resilience. Create! Capitalism, Food and Agriculture, Small Farmers, Sustainability

A week ago, I asked for “real-world examples of technologies that flip the competition in favour of small and diverse.” I got a lot of comments on this article, some here, but most on Facebook. While many mentioned various smart technologies, I don’t think anybody could point to that this or that technology could make small farms profitable in competing with large farms. Clearly, you can reduce the disadvantages of being small by being a smart farmer and using the best technology and smart management. And some technologies “de-scale” well. Virtual fences were mentioned.

The Architect Making America’s Food System Legible

May 30, 2026 Robert Jensen, Resilience. Create! Food and Agriculture, Food Security, Local Economy, Sustainability

Caitlin Taylor believes that a sustainable food system needs “legible” infrastructure, which is why she proposes—not entirely in jest—building slaughterhouses next to farmers’ markets. Architects and engineers usually strive to make infrastructure invisible—so functional and reliable that we forget about the countless systems that undergird modern life. We turn on a faucet without wondering where the water came from and flush toilets without thinking about waste-treatment plants. Most people probably prefer invisible infrastructure for beef production and poultry processing, but Taylor believes that the legibility of infrastructure—making systems visible and understandable—is crucial for justice and sustainability in food production.

Transition Towns Are Key To Degrowth; Current Movements Are Too Reformist

May 5, 2026 Ted Trainer, Resilience. Strategize! Adaptation, climate crisis, Degrowth, Sustainability, Transition Towns

Resources are dwindling, including minerals, timber, water, and soils. Almost all ecosystems are being damaged, including the atmosphere, oceans, and forests. Species are being lost at an alarming rate. Seven of the nine major “planetary boundaries” impacts have now exceeded safe levels. The World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) “Footprint” measure shows that Australians today are using five to seven times the per capita amount of productive land that would be available to all in 2050. Then there are the social and cultural effects. Inequality is rising, and social cohesion is decaying.

United Kingdom: Earth Day Coalition Closes Whitehall

April 22, 2026 The Canary. Resist! climate crisis, Earth Day, Sustainability, United Kingdom (UK)

On a morning of warm spring light, several hundred people processed down Whitehall to Parliament Square to mark Earth Day 2026. This was an act of collective care for the natural world at a moment when the government’s record leaves much to answer for. The action brought together a broad coalition of faith groups, environmental movements and concerned citizens under a shared demand: that the government fulfil its duty to protect clean water, clean air and wildlife, and end its support for fossil fuel expansion. Moving in slow, deliberate procession and accompanied by XR Rhythms, the procession closed Whitehall to traffic as it moved through the heart of the capital.

Why Some Cities Go Green Faster Than Others

April 19, 2026 Christof Brandtner, Next City. Strategize! City Design, climate crisis, Green Transition, Sustainability

The librarians at the San Mateo Public Library were literally in the dark when they decided to go green. Property owners in San Mateo County had just passed a general bond obligation contributing $35 million for a new library building, topped off by the State of California with a $20 million grant. “We had several public meetings asking our citizens: What do you want in your new public library?” a senior library management analyst recalled. It was the late ‘90s, when California utility PG&E was experiencing rolling black outs, and a teacher who was starting a sustainability studies program raised her hand during one of those meetings. “[She] said: ‘Why can’t we build a sustainable building?’ It was like a light bulb went off.”

Modern Agriculture Is Collapsing Under Climate Change

April 6, 2026 Miacel Spotted Elk, Intercontinental Cry. Create! climate crisis, Farming, Food and Agriculture, Indigenous Knowledge, Sustainability

In the last five years, Indigenous agriculture has received attention in academia as an alternative model, though on a smaller scale, to modern farming systems. Research has shown that some traditional farming systems — such as growing maize, beans, and squash together — protect soil health, reduce biodiversity loss, and support Indigenous knowledge, known as traditional ecological knowledge. How many of these elements from traditional farming can successfully translate into larger crop production models, when little research defines their economic value, is a question Kamaljit Sangha, a researcher in ecological economics at Charles Darwin University, wanted to explore in a new study published earlier this month in the journal Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems.

Black Paper: Decolonize Accounting Systems

March 12, 2026 Arnie Saiki, Decolonize Accounting. Create! Decolonization, Economic Democracy, Finance, Sustainability

“The wine is made from plantain, but even if it turns sour, it is our wine.” José Martí’s line from Nuestra América is the right opening for this Black Paper because it states the core political principle in plain terms: institutions must be built from the realities of our own societies, not enforced from external powers. Decolonial accounting begins from that principle. It treats accounting as both revolution and self-determining and asks who defines value, who sets measurement rules, and who decides the terms of market entry.

Degrowth And Its Future

March 2, 2026 David Bollier. Create! climate crisis, Degrowth, Sustainability, The Commons

Humanity cannot continue to expand production and consumption exponentially on a finite planet. It’s biophysically impossible. The carbon emissions are already producing more volatile weather patterns, more frequent floods, droughts, and wildfires, and disruptions of agriculture, commerce and global supply chains. And yet the US Government and respectable opinion remain in zones of denial or deflection. The Trump administration is savaging climate science, environmental regulation, and international treaties, while saner responsible adults are at least focused on energy efficiency and renewables.

Small-Scale Supply Chains In Action

March 1, 2026 Zoe Gilbertson, Resilience. Create!, Podcast – WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean Cooperatives, Local Economy, Supply Chain, Sustainability

Re-thinking governance requires changing how we organise, share knowledge, and develop structures emphasising value beyond the monetary. Systems that encourage cooperation require more social input but have many long-term and wide-reaching benefits. Cooperatives provide an enterprise container that can embody agroecological values such as social and ecological care. Due to the complexities of organising complex fashion supply chains, textile cooperatives are a rare form of business around the globe. However, we can find some inspiring examples in France and Spain.

Top Ten Local Policies For 2026

February 27, 2026 Michael Shuman, The Main Street Journal. Create! Green Transition, Local Economy, Local Investment, Sustainability

Last month, I circulated a list of the top ten policies that state governments could enact to support local business and local economies. Some of you wanted me to repeat this exercise for local governments, where the ability to enact law is more limited, but there’s also the possibility of moving faster. Most of my suggestions below really suggest how your community ought to carry out economic development (ED), which sometimes is done by your municipality and sometimes by an independent agency. The starting place for most of our readers is to compare this list with what purports to be economic development in your community right now. Note the gaps—I doubt you’ll find more than one or two of my items being taken seriously—and push for change.

Do-Nothing Hydroponics

February 10, 2026 Mitch Hagney, Ambrook. Create! climate crisis, Food and Agriculture, Hydroponics, Sustainability

When Bernard Kratky left his Hawaiian home and horticulture research in the ‘80s, he went to learn from another island across the planet with similar challenges. Taiwan, and its Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center, was running ambitious experiments to grow resilient crops in developing countries. Breeding sweet potatoes and mung beans, developing disease-resistant tomatoes, and reducing fertilizer inputs were some of their priorities. Among all of the vegetable excitement, Kratky saw researchers growing crops without soil, hydroponically.

The Promise Of A Circular Amazonian Socio-Bioeconomy

February 8, 2026 Daniel Henryk Rasolt, Resilience. Create! Amazon, Self-Organization, Socio-Bioeconomy, Sustainability

Is self-organization the answer to the foundational question of why life exhibits such complexity? And can it also serve as a guiding framework for how best to save complex webs of biodiversity amid the onslaughts of the modern world? Self-organization exists throughout nature and socioeconomic structures. It refers to the spontaneous emergence of collective, complex order within a disordered system, due to localized interactions that follow simple rules, and occurring without external controls. While conceptually abstract, given that uncertainty lies at its core, the applications of self-organization are everywhere.

What Futures Are Possible?

November 5, 2025 Richard Heinberg, Resilience. Strategize! climate crisis, Earthship, Sustainability, Transformation

People have been forecasting the future for as long as they’ve had language. Premodern ideas of what’s to come often featured either a catastrophic end of the world or an eventual paradisiacal condition of peace and plenty. This was true both for many, though not all, Indigenous peoples and for followers of the world’s missionary religions (i.e., Christianity and Islam, and to a lesser degree Buddhism). For some cultures, the arc of time was imagined as a progression from ancient virtue to present corruption and eventual ruin or salvation; for others, time was cyclical, with multiple Golden Ages and periods of decline.

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