Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Given the considerable resources in the United States spent to subsidize intellectual work, why are so many intellectuals—journalists, academics, writers—not critiquing the many hierarchical institutions and not highlighting the disastrous consequences of these systems?
After a weeklong search, Randy Udall’s body was found in Wyoming Wednesday. He appears to have died of natural causes during a solo camping trip.
We live an age of grievance and disillusionment.
It’s a staple of summer disaster flicks: the scene of a panicked populace trying to get the hell out of Dodge.
This is very much what “doing Transition” means to me: it’s creating vibrant, positive change by the community for that community.
The fixation on imaginary “perfect storms” critiqued in last week’s post is only one expression of a habit of thinking that pervades contemporary American culture and, to a lesser extent, most other industrial societies.
These tools are too powerful for governments not to use.
Knowing and caring about global problems won’t deliver solutions without changes in our own behaviour.
What would it be like if we all did something?
This is freespace and it’s day 27 of a grand civic hacking experiment.
[English/Esperanto] The climate justice movement must be a movement of individuals from all the countries of the world. There is a direct link between the goals of Esperantists, and those of the movement for climate justice. We can provide an alternative way for communication between all people interested in a viable future for planet Earth.
The logic that because a community couldn’t produce its own MRI scanner there is no merit to the idea of some degree of localisation is ridiculous.
