The Dawn of the Cthulhucene: A Retrospective
So I sat down at the computer, logged into my Blogger account, clicked on the button marked new post, and stared blankly at it for a while before I started to type. That, as they say, is how it all began.
Society
Technology as if People Mattered
If you thought technology was politically neutral, think again. Dinyar Godrej argues for a fairer and more social vision.
Open Streets Cape Town: Reconnecting the Post-Apartheid City
Not only do streets connect places, but they also connect people.
Largest Civil Disobedience in History of the Environmental Movement Begins Today
Starting today, a global wave of peaceful direct actions lasting for 12 days will take place across six continents targeting the world’s most dangerous fossil fuel projects, under the banner of Break Free.
To Remember Jane Jacobs, You’ve Got to Get Out and Walk
In 2007, a year after Jacobs died, some of her close friends in Toronto took a crack at creating a fitting homage—a living, breathing, walking, talking memorial called Jane’s Walk.
Why you can’t argue with a “modern”
The modern’s outlook demands nothing of us except acquiescence to the current power structure and its prescribed trajectory for the human endeavor. The modern’s message soothes our worries and calms our fears about our future and that of our descendants…until the day comes when it doesn’t.
Is it Time to Change the Story? Let’s Start Writing the Future.
Our stories hold energy. They can keep us focused on the content and energy of life as we know it.
Where On The Titanic Would You Like Your Deck Chair, Ma’am?
Every human society without exception gives some members more say in making decisions than others.
Reply to Erik Lindberg’s thoughts on modernity, ecomodernism and Ted Trainer
My “The Simpler Way” project is about persuading people that it would be very easy to design and build an idyllic alternative society that was not just sustainable and capable of adoption by all the world’s people, but would actually greatly improve the quality of life of people in rich societies today.
Ali and the Sound of Beans
Ali Kawakita created NOCA?! to give a home to young people who were abused by their parents during their childhood. Working hard in farming or in crafts, they find their way to independence.
Retrofitting Suburbia: Communities Innovate Their Way Out of Sprawl
Saddled with traffic congestion and infrastructural erosion, can suburbia be retrofitted into a sustainable model of development and adapt to a post-oil world?
Enter the Magical Forest of the Nayak Family!
‘We don’t want the knowledge to be cut away from the land. We don’t want to cut the connection of the product and the knowledge from the land,’ says Uday.
