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Depave in Portland, opening the way for greener and resilient communities
When I started to wear barefoot shoes a few years back, I disliked feeling the hard asphalt under my feet. In addition, my doctor beware me about how barefoot-like walking on pavement was damaging to the spine’s health. My urban itineraries have turned since into a sort of unaware jumping circuit from a grass and soil island to another – if you see me, now you know why.
About the housing crisis, the commons, cooperative living, Barcelona, Sweden… phew!
While the cooperative housing model has a long tradition in some regions of the world, such as Quebec and Canada, Northern Europe or Uruguay in Latin America; in others, it is a rather emergent phenomenon.
Skipper Otto, an example of community supported fishing in Vancouver
You may be subscribed to receive, every week, a basket of fruits and vegetables provided directly by a farm in your area. Or, in any case, you have surely heard of this model, also called Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), which originated in Japan in the 1960s and has been in place for about thirty years in North America – see for example the network of family farmers in Quebec and New Brunswick.
‘Beyond Growth 2023’: a strong symbol
‘Croissant’, other than the delicious pastry, is a good adjective to describe our current economic system. The warnings about the disastrous effects of exponential economic growth are not new: they have been out there for fifty years already, following the well-known 1972 report 'The limits to growth' (Meadows et al.).
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