Join Michael Hindle and Tim Linaberry for a discussion about how increased economic sovereignty and deeply reduced consumption are vital to any path to a future that navigates resource depletion, peak cheap oil, and climate stresses.

We must recognize and co-evolve ways in which the built environment, material culture, regenerative provisioning, and social technologies for equitable governance can be woven together as living systems to bend the arc of our global society from the Anthrocene towards the Ecocene, centering sufficiency, dignity, cultural thriving and spiritual richness for all.

Michael Hindle is founder and principal of Passive to POSITIVE, a Building Enclosure and Energy Efficiency consulting firm specializing in PASSIVE HOUSE, Zero Energy, Low Carbon and Resilient Design. He has consulted on Passive House, zero-energy, and Living Building Challenge projects including single-family, affordable multi-family residential, and small commercial buildings. Through this experience, Michael began to understand the systemic limitations of our current mechanism of providing housing (and all necessary provisioning) to low income communities through top-down, corporate and governmental development approaches. In response, Michael has increasingly turned his attention towards explorations of genuine zero-impact and regenerative design and supporting community-led development. He hopes to integrate concepts of reciprocity based, non-extractive economics and democratic governance in community-led, grass-roots development projects rooted in local and bioregional networks, within the productive capacity of ecology and the geo-sphere.

Tim Linaberry is a Baltimore-based writer, musician, organizer, and co-founder of downSHIFT (a upstart 501c3 focused on strengthening local resiliency through regenerative education and reciprocal economics.) His writing has been featured on Resiliency.org, Degrowth.org, and in WaPo (a one-time thing, he promises). He is a graduate of the inaugural online Degrowth MA program from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. Tim currently works part-time for One Fair Wage, advocating for higher wages and better working conditions in restaurants.

This event is part of the EDC’s year-long exploration of Antidotes to Toxicity. We hope you join the conversation!