The Sharing Economy: It Takes More than a Smartphone

The Sharing Economy: It Takes More than a Smartphone

I ran into my friend Rick the other day in a small town near our homes in northern Vermont. He was just coming out of the bookstore, holding a pink plastic bag that, I would soon learn, contained a dozen eggs from his flock of free range hens. After a bit of small...
Why are my highly educated friends so ignorant about trade?

Why are my highly educated friends so ignorant about trade?

By Isabel Marlens Originally published on the Local Futures blog. Since Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, I’ve found myself talking for the first time with a lot of my 20-something friends about trade agreements. My friends didn’t vote for...
Transition To A New HUman Ecology

Transition To A New HUman Ecology

The world is changing rapidly and deeply. If you consider yourself a citizen of a nation, a society or humanity, you must be concerned for its future, because of all the uncertainty the changes are causing. If you are paying attention it probably scares you,...