Corruption and privileges
As the amount of net energy available to the society shrinks, it becomes less and less able to both maintain its infrastructure and actually do things.
Society
New video: ‘The Power of Just Doing Stuff
Here is a short promotional video for The Power of Just Doing Stuff which is published next week.
Trust is not an algorithm
By some accounts the world’s information is doubling every two years. This impressive if unprovable fact has got many people wondering: what to do with it?
Industrial Hemp: The Answer for a Greener Future
‘Bringing It Home’ tells the story of hemp’s past, present and future through interviews with hemp business leaders and entrepreneurs from all over the globe…
Seeking the Happy Story (part 2) – Reality Ain’t What You Believe
"If you really grasp the idea that this is not suddenly going to turn around, in six months or a year, you begin to look at your life very differently," says Dr. Kathy McMahon, clinical psychologist and self-named "Peak Shrink."
Making change happen – June 6
•Alex Laskey: How behavioral science can lower your energy bill •The Death and Life of Chicago •’The Power of Just Doing Stuff •’Where will all the traffic go?
Why We Ride
Poetry and passion. You’ll want to ride too!
Reclaiming life in the precarious city
Despite the recent crackdown on squatting in the UK and Europe, across the Global North we are now witnessing the slow emergence of an alternative politics of housing that seeks to challenge the pieties of neoliberal restructuring, and re-think ways of inhabiting cities.
The Scheduled Death of God
There’s a mordant irony in the fact that a society as fixated on the future as ours is should have so much trouble thinking clearly about it.
Deep thought – dystopia and revolt – June 5
•The War on Scarcity •The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future •Without Water, Revolution •Turkish hopes for a new beginning •The Stockholm Uprising and the Myth of Swedish Social Democracy •The Natural Limits Of Confronting Our Limits •Days of Destruction
The audacity of starting something new
I’m currently involved in the coolest and most important new venture in the Transition universe, the Transition Free Press.
Review: The Kingdom on the Edge of Reality by Gahan Hanmer
Self-reliant, “intentional” communities, as they’re often now called, have been around for centuries. They have come in a myriad of forms, including monasteries, secular communes, co-ops, cohousing communities and many others.
