Preparing Personal Solutions
Radio Ecoshock is back with more local solutions for global problems – from the Mother Earth News Fair.
Society
Profiles in Sharing: Janelle Orsi – The Sharing Economy Lawyer
“The media, when they define the sharing economy, is often narrowly focused on technology-enabled sharing,” she says. “Most of the sharing that I work with is local, neighborhood-based so the title Sharing Economy Lawyer gives the wrong impression, but it’s taken more seriously.”
“Non-Indigenous Culture”: Implications of a Historical Anomaly
There has never been a non-indigenous civilization on planet Earth before.
We Have to Embrace Apocalypse If We’re Going to Get Serious About Sticking Around on This Planet
In the United States, talk of the future is expected to be upbeat, predicting expansion and progress, or at least maintenance of our “way of life.”
Bioeconomics: The Hidden Megascience
The premises of neo-Darwinism and neoliberalism constitute the tacit, taken-for-granted understanding of “how the world works”.
Prometheus Among the Cannibals: A Letter to Edward Snowden
Pity the country that requires a hero, Bertolt Brecht once remarked, but pity the heroes too.
Held Hostage by Progress
The continual recycling of repeatedly failed predictions in the peak oil community, the theme of last week’s post here, is anything but unique these days.
Turning the herd
We might think of these as “seed” experiments — complimentary currencies, ecovillages, “cool” stoves, and non-violent methods of conflict transformation — as the fringe of society but they are actually the leading edge of our inevitable future, if we are to have one.
How Will We Reclaim and Shape the Ambient Commons?
Nowadays media feeds are everywhere — on building facades, billboards, hotel lobbies, restaurants, elevators and even gas pumps.
Detroit: An American Autopsy
For me, Detroit is both a fascinating and scary place. Fascinating because it is a glimpse into America’s future and scary because the future is grim.
Mining the world to death
The agricultural revolution produced the first systematic extractive model, which set us on a road to eventual collapse.
Peak Moment 238: Splendid Bicycles for Cargo and Kids
Picture a sofa perched on a bicycle for its move across town! That’s how Portlanders Joel and Barb Grover transport items too big or awkward for a car.
