http://celdf.org/

We assist communities to develop first-in-the-nation, groundbreaking laws to protect rights – including worker, environmental, and democratic rights, and rights of nature. CELDF provides free and low cost legal services, grassroots organizing, and education, to communities, states, and countries facing injustice. We help them to assert their rights to fight the harms they face.

http://equitableprinciples.com/
GreyWolf's website on economic justice resources. Also look for GreyWolf's posts in the Resource Group.

https://leapmanifesto.org/en/the-leap-manifesto/#manifesto-content

https://leapmanifesto.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Manifesto-en.pdf

Here’s what the manifesto calls for:

— Shift swiftly away from fossil fuels so that Canada gets 100 per cent of its electricity from renewable resources within 20 years and is entirely weaned off fossil fuels by 2050.
— No new infrastructure projects aimed at increasing extraction of non-renewable resources, including pipelines.
— “Energy democracy,” in which energy sources are collectively controlled by communities instead of “profit-gouging” private companies.
— An end to all trade deals “that interfere with our attempts to rebuild local economies, regulate corporations and stop damaging extractive projects.”
— Expand low-carbon sectors of the economy, such as caregiving, teaching, social work, the arts and public-interest media.
— Vigorous debate on the idea of introducing a universal guaranteed minimum income.
— Declare that “austerity — which has systematically attacked low-carbon sectors like education and health care while starving public transit and forcing reckless energy privatizations — is a fossilized form of thinking that has become a threat to life on earth.”
— Pay for it all by ending fossil fuel subsidies, imposing financial transaction taxes, increasing resource royalties, hiking taxes on corporations and the wealthy, introducing a progressive carbon tax, and cutting military spending.

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To Leap or Not To Leap

From: The Agenda with Steve Paikin
About this Video
Air Date: May 04, 2016
Length: 33:54
Available Until: Jan 06, 2099

In the midst of the 2015 federal election campaign, left-wing activists gathered to launch their own call for transformational change with a document called the Leap Manifesto. It lays out a vision of the future to protect the earth from global warming and create equality among people. Documentary filmmaker Avi Lewis co-authored the Leap Manifesto with his wife, activist and author Naomi Klein. He joins The Agenda for a deeper look at the controversial document.

http://caucus99percent.com/content/resilience-how-pets-and-working-anima...

How getting a dog helped me in my recovery from PTSD.

Workshops Without Electricity
http://caucus99percent.com/content/resilience-air-tools-how-amish-run-wo...
A primer on learning about and introducing air tools into the home workshop.

http://caucus99percent.com/content/resilience-brainstorming-how-revitali...

A draft plan to initiate discussion on this project of local resilience. See Martha's initial call for brainstorming.

http://caucus99percent.com/content/resilience-two-income-trap-reflection...

http://www.historyisaweapon.com/indextrue.html#

This site also includes Zinn's "People's History of the United States" and other radical American voices.

http://endfoodwastenow.org/

We are constantly reminded that we need to grow more food to keep up with the ever-expanding population. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations predicts the world population will reach 9.1 billion by 2050, requiring food production to increase by 70%. In 2010, 48.8 million Americans were considered food insecure, meaning that they didn’t have access at all times to enough food for an active and healthy lifestyle.

Getting an accurate picture of food waste throughout the entire food system isn’t easy. The FAO estimates that more than 40% of food losses occur at retail and consumer levels but most estimates are often conservative and don’t take into account the entire food sector—the crops left unharvested in fields or fish discards at sea. Food waste is important because of its social, environmental, political and economical implications.

This site focuses on the different areas where food is lost and wasted through the entire food system, with plenty of tips for consumers to reduce their waste.

http://caucus99percent.com/content/resilience-worker-co-ops-evergreen-co...

http://caucus99percent.com/content/resilience-low-tech-apartment-office-...

Earth-cooled, shipping container underground CA home for 30K

Very impressive and practical IMO. Kirsten Dirksen always has useful and informative videos.

Cheers!

Quite by accident, around my compost bins, Yarrow started growing mats instead of opportunistic weeds. Very drought tolerant and easy to walk on. Takes mowing, or not. Will self seed if left to flower on two foot stems.

Google photos of Yarrow in landscapes

Some recommend getting rid of the existing grass or weeds with herbicides. No, no, no. I chose the incremental approach and as I pulled weeds, or raked a mole hill down, seeded with Yarrow from Amazon
but there are many other sellers.

Another way of getting rid of areas of unwanted greenery and starting over is using cardboard for the creation of a new area. Rodale's version is here.

Here is a nice approach: Ten Acre Farm

Using the same approach here in Europe, and doing well.