A Resilient Society
Resilience is a word that’s gaining a lot of currency in recent years, as more and more people realize there are some shocks headed our way. But what would a more resilient society look like?
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Find Freedom in a Tiny House
Rethinking what a house is could change your life, and perhaps the world. Let me explain through my own experience.
“Make, be, dance, pedal, shape the future”.
I suppose that’s what my creative practice is: I do something with the objective of trying to raise awareness and people trying to get a message across, it’s designed around that.
Getting Beyond the Green Wall: Mary Oliver, Kay Ryan and William Blake
One can read a landscape, a garden, a tree, a bird, or a poem.
The Systems View of Life – A Unifying Vision
Interview with Fritjof Capra author of The Tao of Physics (1975) and co-author of the Systems View of Life – A Unifying Vision (2014).
‘An Ecomodernist Manifesto’: Truth and confusion in the same breath
What the ecomodernist narrative misses is that we are dealing with complex systems that support our very existence and that we don’t really understand those systems well. When dealing with things that are so complex that they are beyond our comprehension and control–especially if we are entirely dependent on those things–the first rule is not to perturb them. They will react in unpredictable and possibly ruinous ways.
Resilience Roundup – May 1
A roundup of news, views and ideas from the main stream press and the blogosphere.
After Disaster, Tactical Urbanism Builds Resilience
What has transpired in Christchurch over the past four years is nothing short of remarkable.
Little Town on the Prairie Steps It Up
Albert Lea, Minnesota shows how walking and other healthy habits can rejuvenate a rural community.
The Death of the Internet: A Pre-Mortem
There was, as it happened, a small problem with the 2707, a problem it shared with all the other SST projects; it made no economic sense at all.
The Cherán Indigenous Community’s Remarkable Road to Self-rule in Mexico
The people themselves decide what can and cannot be done in the community. Political parties don’t do that, they were the ones who determined what to do or not to do.
WANTED. Planet in Crisis Seeks Leaders Up to the Job
Why is it that slow food, slow money and slow travel are so appealing, but that there’s nothing quite as dull as a slow catastrophe?
