Scotland became the first country in the world to pass national Community Wealth Building legislation. The bill passed unanimously on February 10, 2026, 103 votes for, zero against. And the viral video covering it, watched by millions of people across the world, was cited on the floor of Holyrood during the final vote, reframing for the people inside the room what they were actually doing.

The five pillars this operates through
Progressive procurement means public spending strengthens local supply chains and prioritises social value over lowest cost.

Fair employment expands living wage jobs and improves work quality through anchor institutions.

Plural ownership grows cooperatives and social enterprises that keep wealth local instead of extracted.

Democratic land use promotes community ownership that generates local wealth and stewards environments.

Local finance redirects investment to recirculate in communities rather than flow to distant shareholders.

https://connectioning.substack.com/p/scotland-writes-community-wealth?utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true

#localism #communitywealthbuilding #NoBillionaires #community

"Capitalism...is the economic manifestation of the Windigo mentality. Like a malignant process...it must keep expanding or collapse. It cannot recognize enough. Every gain becomes a platform for further gain...Every frontier, whether a rainforest, a public institution, or even the human nervous system, becomes a new zone for enclosure & monetization."

Link: https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-03-26/our-civilizations-disease-has-a-name-windigo/

#Capitalism #Economy #PolyCrisis #Climate #Sustainability #DeGrowth #Localism #WesternCivilization #Exploitation

In Southern California the phrase "coffee shop" used to mean "diner", but now it means a place that you can lounge around in with espresso drinks. See e.g. the pictured sign: Jack's started up in 1933. Does anyone have any idea when this changed? I feel like it was sometime in the 90s but don't really know.

I'm also curious how widespread this usage was (or is, if it's still used anywhere). Just Southern California? All of California? Elsewhere?

#LosAngeles #SouthernCalifornia #California #CoffeeShop #Diner #Localism #Dialects #Vernacular

I've just been reading up on the municipality of Vega, in #Norway:

"Vega Municipality is responsible for primary education (through 10th grade), outpatient health services, senior citizen services, welfare and other social services, zoning, economic development, and municipal roads and utilities."

Population of Vega? 1,208

Why can't mainland #Scotland trust this sort of power to populations less than 50,000?

#ScotPol
#Localism
#Devolution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega_Municipality#Government

#Solarpunk: Off the grid and into the future- Inside the movement transforming #ClimateAction

by Ebin Gheevarghese, 28/11/2025

"The dominant narrative of our time scrolls endlessly toward catastrophe, each headline a confirmation that we’re locked into systems designed to fail, but #solarpunk emerges as something different entirely: a movement blending art, literature, activism, and tangible real-world projects that dares to ask not 'what’s the worst that could happen?' but rather 'what’s the best we can actually build?'

"At its core, solarpunk envisions a world reorganized around #RenewableEnergy, genuine #cooperation, and #SustainableDesign that doesn’t sacrifice beauty or dignity in the process. The key themes include #AntiConsumerism, #CommunityAction, #localism, and what activists call #PrefigurativePolitics, which is essentially the idea that we should live the change we wish to see starting immediately, not someday when conditions magically align.

"The 'punk' in solarpunk carries real weight. The movement is fundamentally #countercultural, resisting both technological determinism and the business-as-usual [#BAU] thinking that’s driving us toward ecological #collapse. Solarpunk centers #decolonial values, #PostCapitalist ideals, and genuine #SelfSufficiency rather than the performative sustainability of #CorporateGreenwashing."

Read more:
https://countercurrents.org/2025/11/solarpunk-off-the-grid-and-into-the-future-inside-the-movement-transforming-climate-action/

#SolarPunkSunday #Decolonize #BuildingCommunity #LtG #ABetterWorld #StabilizedWord #ClimateAction #ClimateAdaptation