Reinforcing feedback loops power effective communities of practice
A "community of practice" is "a group of people who share a concern or passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly."
Kim Kastens
A Geo-Physis of Freedom
There is in the popular imagination, an indelible connection between freedom and space–one which reveals an intuitive understanding of the actual requirements of freedom.
2016: Oil Limits and the End of the Debt Supercycle
What is ahead for 2016? Many people have talked about Peak Oil, the Limits to Growth, and the Debt Supercycle without realizing that the underlying problem is really the same–the fact the we are reaching the limits of a finite world.
Down the Ratholes of the Future
The new year now upon us has brought out the usual quota of predictions about what 2016 has in store, and I propose as usual to make my own contribution to that theme.
Retrotopia: Neglected Technologies
Our narrator attends the Lakeland Republic’s annual drone shoot, and finds out that not all technological innovations start out from the current state of the art…
Let’s Define Degrowth before we Dismiss it
The reluctance of degrowth-critics to define growth makes for poor debate.
Too Little, Too Late
Last week, after a great deal of debate, the passengers aboard the Titanic voted to impose modest limits sometime soon on the rate at which water is pouring into the doomed ship’s hull.
The problem with REDD+
When people take to the streets and demand climate justice, they expect their elected leaders to step up and address the drivers of what is clearly the largest global crisis humanity has ever faced.
We are at Peak Oil now; we need very low-cost energy to fix it
We are hitting something similar to “Peak Oil” right now.
Retrotopia: A Gift to be Simple
Our narrator ventures out of Toledo into a tier one rural county and sees one of the alternative cultures taking shape in the Lakeland Republic.
The Flutter of Space Bat Wings
You don’t actually know a time or a culture until you discover the thoughts that its people can’t allow themselves to think.
Economic Growth: How It Works; How it Fails; Why Wealth Disparity Occurs
Economists have put together models of how an economy works, but these models were developed years ago, when the world economy was far from limits.
