Creating social change
Disenfranchisement
We can't solve our "environmental" issues without resolving racism and economic disenfranchisement
How to grow a garden in an apartment or rental
Just because you're in an apartment or rental doesn't leave you out of the gardening fun!
How do you sort out what’s really sustainable?
Explore the concept of "discernment," how to sort out which proposed solutions are bogus, versus which are true solutions.
6 Things you can do now about global warming
Here are six important things you can do, right now, about global warming. Includes a free checklist at the bottom of the post.
Introducing the What We Can Do series
Right now we’re in a new era: There was 2019 and prior. And there is now. For many of us, these are two completely different realities. Maybe you’ve lost your job, or had dramatic changes to your working world. Maybe…
An example of change-making
I’m Joanne Poyourow, I use the pronouns she/hers, and I’m a change-maker. Back in 2005 I co-founded the Environmental Change-Makers community group in Los Angeles with Peter Rood. I’m an economist by training, and I was a Certified Public Accountant…
I garden on Kizh lands
The land where I have planted gardens is located on the bluffs above the area where there once was a village called Sa’Angna (1)(6)(7). To the best of my understanding, these lands were taken from the Kizh nation (pronounced Keech)(3).…
Word of the day: Liminality
“In anthropology, liminality (from the Latin word līmen, meaning “a threshold”) is the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of a rite of passage, when participants no longer hold their pre-ritual status but have not…
The future of restaurants
A video about the future of food and the struggles of trying to create a zero-waste restaurant.
Feeling distressed about climate change?
The LA Times ran an article “Feeling distressed about climate change? Here’s how to manage it.” Yet their so-called solutions seemed to come to a screeching halt at processing grief. Let’s expand on that … I’ve been “feeling distressed about…
