“Our aim through the project is to empower more citizens to start small scale initiatives in urban farming, for instance in their balconies, rooftops, small gardens and public places.”

“The reset we need, therefore, is nothing less than a reimagining of what a good twenty-first century life might look like. Rather than pursue a consumerist lifestyle we know to be undeliverable, we must imagine other ways of life that are just as appealing, yet which everyone on the planet could enjoy. What we need, in short, is a vision of a good life based on a totally opposite set of parameters: zero carbon, ethical and ecological food, finite resources, a low-carbon economy and global justice. Is such a mission possible?”

Sustain is campaigning for solidarity with women agripreneurs of Gaza so they can realize their aspirations for food sovereignty - an independent and resilient food system for Palestine and all Palestinians.

ASeedlingPlace* will act as a connection of the global network of people or groups that are taking actions to green spaces in their respective cities in a collaborative manner.

“The estimated costs of dietary-related ill health and mental illness in Australia are a staggering $200 billion every year. With COVID-19 and the climate emergency, we need more innovative policy strategies for mitigating these costs,” notes Dr Nick Rose, Executive Director of Sustain. A new report published by the Australian food network lays out an action agenda to create more edible towns and cities.

“Put simply: business of the past has often had a focus on being extractive rather than being regenerative. In response, a growing movement of impact entrepreneurs and investors are taking up the challenge of rethinking, redesigning and reorienting available legal structures of ownership and finance to ensure ‘purpose primacy’.” The authors propose an intergenerational and sustainable approach to business ownership.

“They were quiet then. I was too as I reflected on what was said. This brief conversation had opened a new perspective and healed something within.”

Read this short story - or is it a fairytale? - or a biography? - by lawyer and podcaster Steven Moe. It may heal something within.

How do we experience decay in the city? Usually, we try to avoid it, demolish it, and replace it with something new and shiny. But in some cities, we can be lucky to experience places floating between richness and decay.

A strong community is characterized by its intact resonance. Disputes and conflicts still exist, of course, but they occur within a common frame of understanding; not in separate, parallel spaces.

Imagine a city or a town that, like the Japanese garden, is designed and cultivated in the belief that it may “achieve a beauty that is completely non-decorative but functional in the spiritual sense.”

This story of a famous garden in Sweden is not about horticulture. It’s about life and death, human needs and capacities, and the power of opposites.