Restoring the Commons: This is a strong ecolibertarian principle, advocating for shared community resources and stewardship of natural assets.

So that cost is not a barrier to people accessing the analysis in my book Breaking Together, today the ebook becomes free to download. Published by Good Works, an imprint of The Schumacher Institute, the paperback and epub will be available in June 2023. This event was partly set up as the launch of Jem’s new book, Breaking Together: you can see my blog review of it here.

It can be as simple as neighbours gathering for singing and games, rather than being on their own watching telly. That has helped people to trade together and organise collective works, including new agroforestry projects.

It is important this matter is a priority of the new mayor of Glastonbury and that proceeds from today will contribute to local mental health support for the homeless. And remember, it’s okay to find humor amidst the seriousness, it often brings the most enlightening insights. That was in 2018 and she dropped everything to go full time working with Gail Bradbrook to develop ‘Extinction Rebellion’. That reminds us the problem with our mental health is less about individuals than the culture and systems that abuse us all.

And top experts in their silos are incentivised to ignore an integrated perspective on this situation. Speaking about the ecological wisdom of her Native American culture, Lyla June told me that “we weren’t just born this cool. I wrote to him that none of the events he might fund could occur on any of his properties and that he could not be a host, simply being a guest. While It’s often a cliché if the reader has but one book to choose to read this year, it should be Breaking Together. He says we need to reaffirm our belief in ‘freedom in nature’, arguing for the importance of free will, self-determination and freedom from other people instrumentalising us – that we must embrace eco-libertarianism and eschew eco-authoritarianism.

You may have picked up that I don’t believe there is an evil cabal that coordinates everything in the world. My general attitude to tech innovations is to wish and work for more effective governance and more collective ownership in the commons, while adopting useful tech where I can to help share ideas I believe in while we still have the lights on. What we all need is to find new ways to live positively without fairy tales that someone or something is going to fix it all.

Dan: Please list the top ten prosocial actions where community organizers can seek to active social justice outcomes.