Design for Life: Restoring Democracy From the Ground Up Community-powered conversations on rebuilding trust, participation, and shared governance. Participatory Budgeting: Communities Take the Wheel How residents are directing public spending and reshaping local priorities [...]
- Local restorative practices are replacing punitive models with dialogue, accountability, and community-centered conflict resolution. Why it matters Punitive systems fracture communities, deepen inequality, and fail to address the root causes of harm. Restorative Justice Councils [...]
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Infinite Growth, Finite Planet — Why the Math Won’t Pencil Why it matters: An economy optimized for extraction, exploitation, and colonization treats living systems like fuel. That logic pushes us toward ecological collapse—and social breakdown [...]
How communities coordinate EVs, heat pumps, and building retrofits so that electrification lowers bills, not overwhelms the grid. Electrifying Everything, Together What if electrification didn’t crash the grid — but actually made it stronger? [...]-
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