Dressing for comfort in a minimally-heated residence
In which I reveal how to dress to stay comfortable when it’s cold inside.
Society
Resilience Roundup – Sep 25
Pope Francis’ Historic Address To Congress Covered A Lot of Issues. We Broke It Down For You. | Forget ‘developing’ poor countries, it’s time to ‘de-develop’ rich countries | Hillary Clinton’s opposition to the Keystone XL is a huge victory for climate activists | Jose’s interview – #HUMAN…
Beliefs Matter: Resilience Reflections with Erik Lindberg
Beliefs matter. So do stories. My inspiration often comes from the written word, and I’ve long been interested in writers who revel in the complexity of beliefs, understand how adept humans are at self-deception, but nevertheless provide a useful roadmap.
Retrotopia: Public Utilities, Private Goods
Our narrator, having arrived in the capital of the Lakeland Republic, discovers that things are even stranger there than he thought…
Wisdom: Re-Tuning for a Sustainable Future
In our social evolution as a species, biology and culture run on parallel tracks, but they do so at different speeds. Thus biology, quickly and disruptively, can be outpaced by cultural change.
Reclaiming Our Streets, One Smoothie at a Time: PPS Celebrates PARK(ing) Day
Celebrating its tenth year in 2015, PARK(ing) Day is an annual event where artists, activists and citizens turn metered parking spots into temporary public spaces for people rather than cars.
How Does Equality Impact Fairness?
Our long-term aim should be to deal with the anti-social behaviour of large, powerful, multi-national corporations which run rings round national governments and often make us all feel quite manipulated.
Meet your Neighbors, Change the World
“Houses don’t make neighborhoods – neighbors make neighborhoods,” a friend recently told me.
Whatever Happened to Communitarianism?
Twenty years ago, the concept and label “communitarianism” was riding high, or at least as high as any broadly applicable yet intellectually coherent ideological movement usually ever does in the United States.
The State of the Climate Movement
Movements provide visible demonstrations of people living out the new norms that they espouse.
The Movement Lives On: Occupy Has Succeeded in Spite of its Failures
Occupy Wall Street may not have dismantled capitalism – but it did profoundly change the way people perceived it, and how their voices impact institutions of power all over the world.
Our Family, Our Future: My Global Migration Pledge
As I write this, the bodies of hundreds of people are being pulled from the water off the coast of Libya, after two boats sank, drowning women, men, and children migrating in desperation from places like Syria, Bangladesh and sub-Saharan Africa.
