Uncolonising the Imagination
A story is not just an allegory, or a metaphorical point. It’s a love affair, and one of the most wonderful ways of breaking the trance states being put on us at this point in time, is to figure out what you love.
Society
I, ChatGPT: The Case for Climate Action?
Perhaps in the AI age, we humans will serve as a check and balance to computer programs capable of fooling us into thinking they speak only truth to power.
Building community resilience
But what if… we instead saw resilience as something we share in common? Resilient communities are at the heart of Transition.
How to get more women on bikes? Better biking infrastructure, designed by women
Empowering women to drive the conversation about what they need to be able to ride a bike – and increasing the number of women designing and planning biking infrastructure – is crucial to ensure women aren’t left behind.
Chinese imagine genetically engineered radioactivity-resistant soldiers
Radioactivity-resistant soldiers? Life tries to imitate art.
Preparing for a Storm the Ni-Vanuatu Way
This perfect storm highlights exactly why local resilience is so important, as communities were forced to adopt localized responses—with many drawing heavily on traditional resilience strategies and values to do so.
Prophesies, Then and Now
And honestly, all of this leaves me wondering today what that “prophesy” might look like for the high school graduates of 2023 or those of my grandchildren’s generation in an even more distant future. I certainly hope for the best, but also fear the worst.
Crazy Town: Episode 66. How to Have Sex with Yourself: The Bizarre Cult of the Singularity
Meet Ray Kurzweil, who combines Moore’s Law with nanobots in a faux recipe to cheat death.
From nations to republics: front parlour or front porch?
After liberalism, then, I believe the task is to steer our societies towards a small farm civic republicanism of the front porch and not the front parlour variety. I don’t think that’s going to be easy.
Post Carbon Institute: Looking Back, Looking Forward
This year Post Carbon Institute turns 20, so it’s a good time to take stock. What have we done, what’s left to do?
At Work in the Ruins: Excerpt
To put the whole weight of the future on the shoulders of those of us who happen to be around just now can be paralysing, the weight unbearable.
Doing With What You Make Is Supreme
So you see the impact of what can happen with “doing with what you make.” I’m living it right now by sharing my 4-point recipe in this essay. Consider this my potluck contribution.
