The Prosthetic Imagination
Two news stories and an op-ed piece in the media in recent days provide a useful introduction to the theme of this week’s post here on The Archdruid Report.
Society
Dancing Rabbit Ecovillage: Living Abundantly on 10%
Almost 20 years later, Dancing Rabbit (DR) is a fully functioning ecovillage with around 60 full-time members who live happily on just 10% of the resources the average American consumes.
‘Epic Fail’: Feminism and Ecological Crises
Homo sapiens’ domination of Earth is coming to an end, not in some imagined science-fiction future but as the result of today’s processes of resource extraction and waste generation.
Pulling the plug, part 2
The only way for us to win is not to play.
A review of James Kunstler’s The Long Emergency 10 years later
When James Howard Kunstler’s The Long Emergency came out in 2005, it was at once terrifying and riveting, like a nightmare whose outcome must be discovered despite the difficulty of braving through it.
Barcelona en Comú: the City as Horizon for Radical Democracy
…there is a new cycle of struggles for democratic governance unfolding at the level of the city.
Resilience Roundup – Mar 6
A roundup of the news, views and ideas from the main stream press and the blogosphere.
Sustainability for Whom?
Is eco-business leading us to ecological sustainability?
Peak Meaninglessness
Last week’s discussion of externalities—costs of doing business that get dumped onto the economy, the community, or the environment, so that those doing the dumping can make a bigger profit—is, I’m glad to say, not the first time this issue has been raised recently.
Sustainable Economies Law Center eResources
Did you know that SELC has five free online legal resource libraries?
Weaving the Community Resilience and New Economy Movements in the US
One of the most exciting new economy efforts in the US is the New Economy Coalition (NEC), made up of more than one hundred organizations (including Transition US)…
Reimagining Our Streets as Places: From Transit Routes to Community Roots
Streets are our most fundamental shared public spaces, but they are also one of the most contested and overlooked.
