Taking the Next Step: Paris Leads With Innovation in the Streets
In a 180-degree change from previous decades… the City of Paris has been implementing an ambitious strategy to rethink the role of the car in the city.
Society
The Activist Rooster
Can we just agree from the beginning that there are no small or trivial freedoms? Every declaration of independence from old choices and worn out ways of being is equally powerful and profitable in making a new world.
Life Preservers for Mermaids
The new religious sensibility I began to sketch out in last week’s Archdruid Report post is a subtle thing, and easy to misunderstand.
Bikenomics: Whose Streets?
One of the biggest barriers to bicycling people report is simply access to a bicycle.
Occupy at Two
In the new space that appears, however briefly, the old rules no longer apply.
The Ancient Taberna in a Future World
No, the Trajan Market was not at all like today’s ’supermarkets’ — it was a superb market!
Transition and Solidarity
Our intention would…be to lay the foundation for long-term relationships between our different communities, hoping this would lead to more collaborations, and strengthen each of our communities…
Gus Speth: “What We’ve Got to Get Us Through is Each Other”
What we’ve got, mainly, to get us through life, with a maximum of happiness and a minimum of suffering, is each other.
Deep thought headlines
•The Fossil Fuels War
•On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs
•Big Data, Disaster Resilience and Lord of the Rings
•Dreaming of Uncivilisation
Stranger in a strange land
Everything pulses, and pulses maximize the flow of power in systems. I pulsed in a big way this year.
What If?
As I walked up the hill this morning to work a few hours in my family’s half-acre urban farm, my head was sore from a stampede of news: Syria in the crosshairs of the White House; economies swaying precariously like ten-foot stacks of Jenga blocks ready to fall; the open wound at Fukushima; the deepening trauma of unemployment around the country, and so on. When I arrived, I tried to discuss the latest with the green beans and winter squashes. They just politely changed the subject.
Grow Heathrow: here to stay?
Our project was set up by Transition Heathrow…which aims to create a resilient, sustainable space in the community that can survive many generations, survive any shocks or attacks it might face.
