Fresh vegetables, herbs, honey and new eggs every day; Jules and his family are living the farm life. It’s also a most unconventional lifestyle given that their home is in the middle of Pasadena, California. The family struggles to be as self-sustainable as they possibly can—their car drives on biogas, solar panels power their television, and each day they have fresh food from their own meticulously well-maintained crops.

Atamai Village is an ambitious project to build a resilient, permaculture designed settlement in Nelson Bays, New Zealand. This video shows some of their preparations for a world of transition to lower dependence on cheap fossil fuels.

Daniel Anthony, co-founder of Mana Ai. Daniel hand-pounds Kalo (Taro) with pre-contact, traditional Hawai’ian practices to make pa‘i ‘ai (pounded taro with water not yet added) and poi (pounded taro with water added). Mana Ai uses education, art, and food to sustain and share Hawai’ian culture.