Earth, Wood and Sun – Natural Building, Local Style
Natural builder Chris Foraker gives a tour of work-in-progress at Aprovecho Center, Oregon.
Society
On the Far Side of Progress
The pointless debates over evolution discussed in last week’s Archdruid Report post have any number of equivalents all through contemporary industrial culture.
Sophy Banks on the power of not doing stuff
But in this, our final post for the month before we sign off for August (during which very little will happen on this site, as we put theory into practice), Sophy (busily doing nothing, above), one of the key developers of the Inner Transition approach and co-creator of the Transition Training, reflects on whether it’s just as important to not do stuff.
How the new peer-to-peer economy can lead to the renaissance of the commons
The “peer to peer” and commons-oriented vision for a new type of civilization and economic system starts from an analysis of what is fundamentally wrong with the current economic system.
Confessions of a climate change denier
I suppose it wasn’t really until I was standing on the west side of Hoboken, New Jersey, in water and oil up to my thigh, that climate change really made sense.
Tucson shows how green infrastructure can create community resilience
What would happen if every time a roadway was built or renovated, new green infrastructure that added green spaces and soaked up rainwater was also installed? What if every time a new road is planned, we also planned to include lush tree canopies that naturally lower temperatures?
Transport headlines
•Why does Britain want to build airports for ghost planes? •The bike, reborn as a fashion statement •Moving Dirty Crudes, Another Threat Posed by Dirty Fossil Fuels
Cool capitalism: changing the principles of protest
It’s 45 years since the wave of youth-led rebellions that followed Paris’s May Events in 1968, and the anniversary has reawakened "culture war" debates…
Remember Tewdrig
Mass migrations, or more specifically mass culture replacement, is one of the more troubling aspects of peak energy.
Happiness and the New Simplicity: The Living Room Revolution of Community
For years I’ve talked to people about voluntary simplicity, and for years people have responded with: “What’s that thing you’re involved in—that self-deprivation movement?”
The decline of falsifiability
Many ancient societies were ruled by claims of divine right; royal proclamations were not falsifiable…But we don’t have to look to the distant past to see what it looks like for dogma to trump reason.
The Quest for a Common Language
It’s a very old choice: which will you have, the love of power or the power of love?
