The Global Tapestry of Alternatives seeks to build bridges between networks of Alternatives around the globe and promote the creation of new processes of confluence.
Almost a decade after Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico’s electrical grid, the island’s first urban solar microgrid has become a model not just in transitioning away from US-imposed fossil fuels, but in putting ‘energy–the power to do work–into the hands of the people … for better living.’
Indigenous communities, grassroots organizations, and social movements convened this past February 2025 in Port Edward, South Africa to collectively articulate their vision and practice of radical democracy, “with the actors being not only humans but all of nature.”
