How the greatest technology ever developed backfired on us
Language is the real break of humans with everything else that walks, crawls, or flies on the earth…But, as for all technologies, it has unexpected consequences.
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Sustainability Sucks
Framing a project or a business as "sustainable" no longer serves us. The dominant use of the word has ceased to mean what some of us orginally intended and, in fact, the term has been co-opted and watered down in many cases. Labelling something "sustainable" may even alienate potential allies, or at least people with whom you might want to get along. What do we really mean? What do we really want? Let’s find the new language set that can help us get there.
Commoning in the City
As Ivan Illich and Anthony McCann have argued, historically, the commons was not simply a pool of resources to be managed, but an alternative to seeing the world as made of resources.