Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Bodging describes the act of creating things from a mish mash of available materials in a makeshift workshop. Derived from the term to bodge which specifically refers to the turning of tree branches into chair legs using a foot operated lathe. Such free materials as a bodger might use, today, can be found in the form of recyclables left on the curb and the rapidly disappearing “big trash” day.
Rees’s Thesis
Reimagining Socialism
Together, We Save the Planet
The Revolution Has Already Occurred
Follow Brazil’s Example
Transition towns
Lost Generation
Lessons from the Collapse of the USSR (Orlov video)
British historian Mark Jones on the world crisis
The Free Nature Movement
Nate Hagens – On Credit, Depletion, Energy Nationalization – Radio Interview
The Reverend Dr. Swift put his ruddy all-probing finger on several of our worst maladies: upward mobility, contempt for the places that sustain us (doubly detestable in those who have “risen” from such places), outsourcing, enslavement to fashion, which is naught but the Tyranny of the Next Thing, and the habit of raising children to do nothing more productive than sit on their Frito-fed fannies until the entertainment industry has successfully amused them into an intellectual indolence exceeded only by their physical inertia.
Development of a sense of place is integral to leading a fulfilled low energy lifestyle. One might even say a nature linked low energy lifestyle requires an expanded sense of place.
Towards a Scale-Free Energy Policy
Bright Green, Light Green, Dark Green, Gray: The New Environmental Spectrum
The World of Tomorrow 1 The Old Future
While the usual reason for adopting a shorter work week is economic, there is also an argument that working less hours reduces consumption and waste and can thus be justified on environmental and health grounds. It’s been recommended by a number of peak oil observers as a way to reduce energy consumption.
Energy is first and foremost a demand issue- how much do we need and for what ?- and yet the majority of public debate on the issue is to do with finding new sources of supply so as to allow industrial growth to continue.
Remembering Deep Ecologist Arne Naess
Peak oil means sooner or later we’ll wake up to a new normal
What is UNsustainability?
How to build resilient communities in a chaotic world
Philadelphia’s new green future
For survivalists, the end is always nigh
City of Portland joins a bright neighborhood
(Review in Spanish of the "Transition Handbook"). Durante el último mes, hemos sido lectores atentos del libro „The Transition Handbook“, de Rob Hopkins.
Understanding and navigating the economic crisis (a decentralist approach)
Paul Krugman: Climate of change
We’re all doomed – again
