Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
I’m an Edge-dweller. It’s not something I signed up for, or studied. It’s simply what I am. Over the past several years, I’ve begun to understand this as a specific way of being – and that this way of being may be intertwined with these edge times in which we live.
Lost in a make believe world while we destroy the real one.
Considering the depth of opposition and the potential for such movements to intervene into ongoing debates about fuel poverty and sustainable economic development, it is useful to pause and consider what and who might actually be able to stop fracking.
How small could you go when it comes to home? 500 square feet? 250 feet? 100 feet? For Jay Shafer, less is definitely more.
This paper explores the many crises that civilisation and humanity will face over the coming decades, it proposes a central cause to these crises. Some constructive choices that individuals, communities and nations could yet make are outlined.
Last week’s discussion of failed predictions in the peak oil movement inevitably touched on the latest round of claims that the world as we know it is going to come to a full stop sometime very soon.
For us, the misunderstanding of Occupy-style politics concerns the criteria by which Occupy-style movements are measured.
There is no justification for majority rule.
Alan Weisman answers questions on his new book. Weisman traveled to 21 countries asking politicians, scientists, family planning specialists, doctors, and religious leaders, crucial questions about how we can successfully deal with the size of human population.
Never before, not when Ortelius began collecting the images of the New World in his Antwerp workshop, not during the explosion of maps for railway tourists in the nineteenth century, did so many maps fly around the world so quickly.
Our theme for January is ‘Scaling Up’. There is no route map to a powered-down, resilient future. No-one has done this before.
Does charitable giving serve to give us an easy way out of having to ask why certain people and countries need our charity while others do not?
