Join The Society of St. Andrew in gleaning fresh produce to fight hunger and reduce food waste. Volunteer, donate, and support food recovery efforts nationwide.
A zine with info on how to properly signal with a whistle.
Appropedia is the site to develop and share collaborative solutions in sustainability, poverty reduction and international development through the use of sound principles and appropriate technology, original research and project information.
Open Source Blueprints for Civilization. Build Yourself. We’re developing open source industrial machines that can be made for a fraction of commercial costs, and sharing our designs online for free. The goal of Open Source Ecology is to create an open source economy – an efficient economy which increases innovation by open collaboration.
The UX (short for Urban eXperiment) is an underground organization of Urban explorers that improves hidden corners of Paris.
Introducing #devBnB. A concept. Where city developers can “book” coding opportunities to go to a farm or small village project in need of open source/hardware expertise to build farm solutions, federated power grids, rural traffic solutions, reverse-engineer proprietary shit.
Mutual aid is a foundational element of Anarchism, but it is often difficult to translate theory into meaningful action while surviving the hellscape of late stage capitalism. Still, up and down the land there are a variety of practical examples from Food not Bombs stands, to Community Toolsheds, and Infoshops. Free Shops often go under the radar, but can be a vital link for many. If you go down to Boscome in Bournemouth on a Friday, outside Costa, you'll find the Boscome Free Shop, week in, week out, being there, making their community better. We wanted to know more so asked them not only why, but how they do this and how can others looking to find a way to make their anarchism practical start their own.
Since 2020, Distro Disco Mobile Free Store has been distributing survival supplies to neighbours in need living in so-called Vancouver, B.C. Inspiring their community to contribute to monthly donation drives and fundraisers, Distro Disco distributes three times monthly with the help of 20+ rotating volunteers. Redistribution of wealth and resources is at the heart of community care and an action that you can make happen wherever you are. The following guide provides some low-cost and actionable ways to start a distro for your community.
Inside are 40 completely legal tactics—many of which are accessible to people from different backgrounds, skill sets, and identities—that can be used to counter and contain White Nationalist, fascist, and violent Far Right organizing in your community.
Some easy starting points.
We want to build the world we want to see. How building free stores and open libraries of books, tools, resources, and things can bring us closer to a post-capitalist future.
How to make an off-grid micro 'internet' that can run off solar power (or any power) for emergencies, camping, protests, or building community autonomy and dual power.
A guide on building autonomous communication networks with LoRa that work without wider communications infrastructure. Combining techniques for resistance, resilience, and persistence.
An exploration of ideas that cross between computer science & tech, Solarpunk, and radical forms of political organizing.
Expanding the uses of an autonomous network, and offering some ideas on the ways that autonomous and community controlled networking can lead to change.
This essay grows out of a quite minor Twitter thread, which is here.Scotland now provides period products for free, to everyone who needs them.That's an incredibly powerful thing. The fact that Scotland does it — the fact that Scotland is the first nation in the world to do it — makes me proud to be Scots. It is a seed from which the good society can grow.
SwampNet is a collaborative project started in 2023 to bring alternative and autonomous communication systems to Bvlbancha | New Orleans and across the Gulf South.
Digital security training can feel overwhelming, and not everyone will have access to new apps, new devices, and new tools. There also isn't one single system of digital security training, and we can't know the of everyone we communicate with—some people might have concerns about payment processors preventing them from obtaining fees for their online work, whilst others might be concerned about doxxing or safely communicating sensitive medical information.
A small collection of zines to print or download.
[A] comprehensive guide for groups starting a retail food co-op, with steps, case studies, templates, and more for every stage from organizing to implementation.