What is an All-Inclusive Government?
When Americans introduced democracy, George Washington was totally opposed to the idea of political parties, to this notion that you split into two and one side shouts abuse at the other.
Society
Plumbing the Tiny House
This continues the series of articles by which we hope to empower readers to exit the "killing fields of the future" (the cities), to help you achieve and maintain a comfortable offgrid lifestyle for at least a couple of decades
Lessons From The Holocaust For Our Times
We truly cannot envision the ripple effects of our actions and the impact they can have on the future.
Stability begets instability: The challenges of the post-2008 world
The remarkable stability that many of us have experienced in our lifetimes is coming to an end. Change can challenge us and can actually make us more resilient human beings: more creative and more capable. But that can only happen if we embrace the challenges that come along with that change.
Resilience Roundup – Feb 12
A roundup of news, views and ideas from the main stream press and the blogosphere including U.S. Supreme Court Blocks Obama’s Clean Power Plan | Sea level research says only a ‘brief window’ to cut emissions | Peak-Oil Predictions Didn’t Pan Out, But Concerns About Supply Persist As Conventional Crude Slides…
Is Our Future Possible?
SUMMARY: "Reality 101" with Nate Hagens, our minds, our world, the fossil trap. Scientists Alexander "Sandy" MacDonald of NOAA and Chris Clack of CIRES: yes we can power America with solar and wind power.
Edinburgh Tool Library: Creativity, Community, and Cutting Resource Use
Running out of a Dr. Who-style police box near the city’s docks, the Edinburgh Tool Library has been going since early 2015 and now has 1,200 tools, 180 members, and is growing fast.
People Are Not Disposable: ‘Zero Waste’ and Ecological Justice
Join Mateo Nube from Movement Generation, as he lays out a Just Transition Framework for Action.
What Makes a Good Export?
By choosing to live more simply, more kindly, more compassionately, while such an approach would inevitably reduce our physical exports, we need to bear in mind that we would end up exporting something far more important, long-lasting and needed.
The Empire of Lies
In those times, just as in ours, a dying empire could be kept together for a while by lies, but not forever.
Baucis and Philemon in the 21st Century: Notes on Living Small
I live in the nation with the highest rates of personal consumption and energy use ever seen on earth, and I live small.
Politics in a full world
We can no longer afford to imagine that we live in an empty world in which we can safely ignore or abuse the nonhuman beings and objects in it with minimal consequences. Rather we live in a full world, cheek by jowl with all its inhabitants crowding into our lives with real, tangible consequences–inhabitants that now ask to be considered before the voting begins.
