Cultivating a Post-Growth Relationship with Knowledge
Knowledge from a post-growth mindset might diverge from our hunger to know, but it will create a better one: a hunger for meaning and purpose. That will truly transform our societies.
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I was wrong to conclude collapse is inevitable…
I was wrong to conclude collapse is inevitable… because when I was concluding that, it had already begun.
Livelihood: a new and old idea
As an eco-cultural philosopher (and poet), I’m strongly inclined to believe modern humans have almost entirely lost the sense of the word which became our contemporary word, livelihood. Why?
After the uprising, what is to be done?
We have to continue to remind each other what we are owed, what we deserve, and what we can build together.
Cache Creek
The animal community, that is mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians, has shrunk on average 68% between 1970 and 2020, according to the World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London in the Living Planet Report.
Picture the Future: The Shift
In 2010, two women, Sarah Pugh and Laura Corfield co-founded Shift Bristol, fired up by the idea that what people needed in order to make that shift – to a more sustainable, eco-friendly, viable and happy existence – was some hands-on training.
They are welcome here
In the end, people here understand that they have more in common with a tailor who has arrived in a dinghy than they do with the people at the top who have left them high and dry.
Hope from the Seed of Trauma
What if, 50 years from now, instead of looking back and yearning for how things were in 2023, we find ourselves in a more equal, tolerant, and just society living more harmoniously with the rest of life on earth?
A lexicon of time
Richard Fisher’s book The Long View: A Field Guide was published this week—but to mark the occasion Richard published on his blog an interesting lexicon of phrases about what he calls “long-terminology”.
Crazy Town: Episode 68. How Boomer Politicians Found a Third Way to Phuck Over the Working Class
Meet Bill Clinton, who converted the Democratic Party into slightly less loathsome neoliberals. Please share this episode with your friends and start a conversation.
On planning and disaster: Notes from an earthquake
Such an opposition will become increasingly crucial as the forces of climate catastrophe and capitalism will, at least in the near future, continue to produce disasters in Turkey and abroad.
The long century of the car
Although Tom Standage’s book is billed as A Brief History of Motion, it is really about the long century of the car.
