When we met John Winnenburg, at the Appalachian Studies Association conference last year, the Winding Road initiative was in transition. “We started out with a participatory vision, but then, politics and personalities started to dominate. We weren’t creating the...
We want to express our gratitude to the people who do the very important work of addressing how our food systems impact our health, communities, lands and waterways. This is long-term, complex, and often under-appreciated work. Starting with Equity from the Outset...
A conversation with Simon Mont of the Non-Profit Democracy Network Highly structured processes like Sociocracy, Dynamic Governance and Holocracy often meet resistance When Tracy read Simon Mont’s article, “Autopsy of a Failed Holacracy: Lessons in Justice,...
June Holley has been weaving economic and community networks for more than 35 years. In 1981 she discovered complexity science and became intrigued with the process of transformation. How could communities change in ways that would make them good places for everyone?...
When it comes to paradigm-shifting systems-level change happening on the ground right now, the proliferation of local food councils may be the most fundamental and the most vital. So Tracy and I were tremendously pleased be included among the presenters and exhibitors...
My work with the Appalachian Foodshed Partnership launched me into what Luigi Morelli calls a “the paradigm shift that is quietly appearing behind and between the present structures of power”, that is the emergence of Large Systems Change through multi-stakeholder,...
