Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
There is something prophetic about Hurricane Sandy in its foretaste of what Obama is now calling a ‘warming world’. Watching New York being battered by the storm was eerily like a scene out of climate-apocalypse movie The Day After Tomorrow.
Yes, the most effective way to slow climate change is to shrink the economy.
"We’ve got to get this economy going again!" Unless your cave lacks wifi, cable or satellite, you’ve heard this once or twice in the last four seconds.
A new book, Architecture & Design versus Consumerism: How design activism confronts growth (Earthscan/Routledge 2012), helps close the “meaning” gap between architecture and design’s potential for social good and the ruthless commercialism and consumerism that serve as the context for the professions.
We face a wicked predicament. Global climate disruption threatens the existence of civilization as we’ve known it.
We now face an incredibly important juncture in human history where a choice must be made…
Environmental journalists are like doctors. Doctors run from patient to patient, harried, dealing with symptoms more than causes. They’re too busy dispensing pills to talk about holistic health. It’s an approach that makes money for the health industry but isn’t so great for public health.
-Narcissism, Consumerism and the End of Growth
-Spain’s next threat: Losing 20% of its economy
-How Transition is starting to rebuild Ontario
-Amid the Echoes of an Economic Crash, the Sounds of Greek Society Being Torn
