Retrotopia: The Cloud that Hides the Future
Our narrator spends his last few hours in the Lakeland Republic, finds an answer to a question that has been bothering him, and boards the train back to Pittsburgh and the unknowns that wait there…
Society
Thoreau’s Luxuries: An Interlude
Lately I’ve been turning to Thoreau–the patron saint of radical simplicity, he of shedding false conveniences and burdensome accumulation in the favor of a life lived amongst the trees.
Right-to-Repair Activists are Heroes
Everywhere we look, heroes of information freedom are contesting the corporate state’s lockdown on the free sharing of knowledge.
Making Beautiful Things Where Everyone Gains and No One Profits
‘When production is driven by profit, then shoddiness and misery are likely to be what gets produced.
Flight Path — On Reading David Fleming’s ‘Surviving the Future’
The man you might not know. And yet if you know anything about the Green Party, Tradable Energy Quotas, the Transition Movement, New Economics Foundation or the Soil Association you would have met his ideas and his vision many times.
Exchanging Autonomy
This article is aimed on one hand at defining some dimensions of individual autonomy, on the other at proposing exchanges of values and metavalues as a possible way to promote such dimensions.
Trumped and Stumped: A Cure for Political Polarization?
A book called I’m Right and You’re an Idiot: The Toxic State of Public Discourse and How to Clean It Up sounds like it was written just for the 2016 US presidential race.
Deface the Currency: Introduction
But whether the protagonist is ancient or postmodern, it is a testament to the depth of Diogenes’ insight into the human situation that his ideas and ways of living can remain so relevant despite the gulf of time that separates us.
The Big Difference at Standing Rock Is Native Leadership All Around
This year’s massive buildup of resistance to the Dakota Access pipeline follows closely on the heels of the victory over Keystone XL pipeline, something often credited to feverish organizing by 350.org.
The Transition Town Movement with Rob Hopkins
Rob Hopkins recently appeared as a guest on the the Permaculture Podcast with Scott Mann. Their conversation spans permaculture, Transition, BREXIT, and what it takes build real community resilience.
Inner Transition: an introduction
I recently took up the challenge to talk about inner transition in the garden of an eco-village project in Värmland County, Sweden. A lot of sun, beautiful place, no flip-chart or power points. Here is a short account of what I talked about.
Testing a Different(iation) Approach to Permaculture Design Process – Part One: Introductory
With this post we enter the home straight of our first inquiry circuit into a weak link in conventional definitions and understandings of permaculture design process.
