Imagine you are walking around your city, and you see an amazing piece of street art in the wall of a building. You go next to it, like in a museum, and take a look at the tag next to ...Read More
Just like the Brixton Pound, Ithaca Hours is a local currency system that promotes local economic strength and community reliance that will support economic and social justice, ecology, community participation and human aspirations. In Ithaca, New York, the group who started ...Read More
In the Summer and Autumn 2007, thousands of people living and working in the town of Middlesbrough, Tees Valley participated in a project to increase local food production and reduce food miles. Along the way, young, old, rich and poor worked ...Read More
As discussed earlier about people food sharing during the Northeast Blackout in 2003, The Big Lunch is an initiative to get everyone in the UK to stop what they are doing for one moment and sit down and have lunch ...Read More
Transition Towns start off when a small collection of individuals within a community come together with a shared concern. They begin by forming an initiating group with the intention of engaging a significant proportion of the people in their community to ...Read More
After speaking to my friend from Toronto, she explained to be about The Northeast Blackout of 2003. It was a massive widespread power outage that occurred throughout parts of the Northeastern and Midwestern United States and Ontario, Canada on Thursday, August 14, 2003, at approximately 4:15 p.m. ...Read More
Cities x Design as featured on DESIGN 21, is a 35-city trans-media research trip across the United States that is recorded online and will later be released in film, exhibition and book form. Through visits, observations, and interviews Cities x ...Read More
Team Green Britain held its first 'Green Britain Day' in July this year where 5 teams worked together to make a difference. The idea behind Team Green Britain, and in partnership with EDF Energy, London 2012 and the Eden Project, ...Read More
FreshSight is an innovative and unique proposition which was formed in Edinburgh, UK, in late 2007. The organisation, formerly known as 'The Edinburgh Group', links university students to the Third-Sector in an unprecedented way. FreshSight, now operative in Edinburgh and Glasgow, offers ...Read More
As featured in the late The London Paper, on the 17th of September, the Brixton Pound has launched in South London. John Dunne reports that the B£ is being launched to "boost fortunes of businesses affected by the recession". The Brixton ...Read More