Dear Rothamsted Research, Re: Take the flour back! Public day of action Many thanks for your letter dated 27th April. We would welcome the opportunity to engage with you in a public debate over the forth-coming weeks, so that both sides of the debate have an equal chance to hear...

| Michael Shuman | A $3 Trillion Gold Mine A group of scholars at the University of Wisconsin recently counted nearly 30,000 cooperatives in the United States operating at 73,000 locations. The vast majority are consumer cooperatives, with 343 million memberships (many people belong to...

| Gabriel Kuhn | As the internet seems unstoppable as an ever broader publishing forum, more and more innovative radical projects appear online. One of the latest is Stir, which describes itself as “a community-building online magazine”. Alpine Anarchist spoke to the editor Jonny...

| Patrick Chalmers |   visionOntv volunteers at work doing interviews using a “pop-up” TV studio at the 2011Mozilla Festival Media, Freedom and the Web in London   It’s a pig to get going as a journalist. Despite reporters’ enduring reputations as sub-pond-life types,...

| Will Simpson | ‘Who’ is easy enough. The Easton Cowboys and Cowgirls are an amateur sports club based in inner city Bristol. We haven’t got our own ground and most people wouldn’t have heard of us. But over the years we have done some interesting things, most of which are included...

| David Boyle |     There is no more conservative nation on earth than the British when it comes to money.  Let me correct that.  The Scots are great money innovators in history.  They gave us Michael Linton who invented LETS and John Law who ruined the French government in 1716...

| Lizzy Willmington |   Photo Courtesy of Craftivism Wellington. Craftivism is about reclaiming craft and breaking it out of the domicile environment and into the streets, parks, railings, and pretty much anywhere you can attach a cable tie on.  The process takes thought; the skills take...

| Keith McHenry |     “I find no other solution, now, than a dignified end before I start searching through the trash for food.” Dimitris Christoulas, 4 April 2012, Athens, Greece “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs...

| Anne Beech |   “What we publish is the point — not how” As part of Stir’s series on radical publishing and bookselling, I’ve been invited to add my thoughts on the future of radical publishing. This is a personal response, not intended to represent either the...

| Franco Iacomella | by Richard Clupés CC/Flickr   Cataclysms On the Surface Recently, two of the most important and used storage and sharing files services in the web — FileServe and Wupload — changed their conditions of use making impossible to share information between regular...

| Jonny Gordon-Farleigh interviews Rob Hopkins | To mark the release of In Transition 2.0 —  an inspirational film about communities printing their own money, growing food, localising their economies and setting up community power stations — I spoke to the Rob Hopkins, co-founder of the...

| Ian Westmoreland | A question that seems to garner a lot of debate whenever the topics of climate change and peak oil are raised is what our future sources of energy might look like. This is a common feature of groups involved in the Transition movement, since the vast majority of us in the...

| Charlotte Du Cann |  An Urban Farm on Whitney Avenue, Pittsburgh   In an abandoned lot in Pittsburgh a boy is selling lettuce. Down Tooting High Street a carnival is in full swing. In a village in Portugal two men are walking in a field beside horses. In a fire station in Moss Side a...

| Jonny Gordon-Farleigh interviews scott crow |   New Orleans flooded after Hurricane Katrina.  Courtesy of Ross Mayfield.  CC-BY-NC 2.0 I interviewed scott crow about his book Black Flags and Windmills: Hope, Anarchy and the Common Ground Collective, how the Occupy movement has been...

| Patricia Larenas |     Putting open source and permaculture together is a savvy combination, and in this case, it’s also really useful. Add crowdsourcing and you have a complete online resource for all things permaculture. Sophia Novack, a self-described permaculture geek, is...

| Naomi Glass & Clare Joy | OrganicLea stands out as an inspiring urban food project that grows everything: food and communities.  While many sustainable and food-focused programs are limited by the fact they only have volunteer staff, Organic Lea’s vision to create jobs provides a...

| Marianne Maeckelbergh | The year 2011 has breathed new life into horizontal models of democratic decision-making. With the rise of the 15 May movement and the occupy movement horizontal decision-making became one of the key political structures for organising responses to the current global...

| Jonny Gordon-Farleigh | With the publication of his new book The Faith of the Faithless, I spoke to philosopher Simon Critchley about why a counterfactual faith is so important to modern politics, why it offers an “archive of possibilities” for those involved in political...

| Sam Bailey | As Gabriel Kuhn so eloquently articulated in the last issue of STIR, football is more than just a competitive sport, and if we look beyond the multi-billion-pound football ‘industry’, with its widespread corruption, celebrity players, excessive consumption and clubs run as...