Open Source Hacking
The financial sector is a notoriously opaque, alienating and destructive complex.
Society
Planning: the untapped power of community consent
When planning consent is given for a development which local people bitterly oppose, is that the end of the story?
Resilience Roundup – Feb 20
Taps Start to Run Dry in Brazil’s Largest City…
Radical Democracy: Reclaiming the Commons
That theme is citizens seeing their right to decide what kind of communities they want to live in denied by faceless processes far-removed from local reality, and certainly not accountable to it.
In your face – 19 Feb
Why I’m a hypocrite / Orlov: Extinct—Extincter—Extinctest / Big Ag’s Fight for Twitter Credibility
What Progress Means
Strictly speaking, therefore, nothing requires the project of deliberate technological regress to move in lockstep to the technologies of a specific past date and stay there.
To Make Hope Possible Rather Than Despair Convincing
We stand at a precipice in history that demands that the human species achieve some fairly unprecedented evolutionary advances.
Beyond the Market-State: Decentralising Power in a Sharing Society
At a time when governments are failing abysmally to mitigate climate change, reduce inequality or end poverty, the key to creating a more equal and sustainable world is establishing participative forms of political engagement at all levels of society – from the local to the global.
The Problem With An Undulating Trend And Natural Variability
Humans find it very hard to identify a trend that is affected by natural variability, instead getting caught up in short term variations like the "Climate Pause". This may have disabled humanity’s urgency in taking a sustainable path,
Getting Things Done Together: Self-Organisation Beyond Hierarchy
There’s something mysterious about how complicated things gets when other people get involved!
Whodunit? The foragers.
Archeologists have been, in my opinion, far too eager to brand cultures as farmers on flimsy evidence.
Resilience Roundup – Feb 13
Reasons to doubt US shale oil rebound…
