The Vaishya Gambit

By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future

So ironically, perhaps the only chance for a truly liberal politics of friends and not enemies now lies in reconstructing a vaishya localism. But perhaps I’m being too pessimistic…?

Choosing to Get Off Fossil Energy—Our Best Local Choices

By Gerald Iversen, Richard Heinberg, Simpler Living Podcast

Richard Heinberg talks about local options for getting off fossil fuels on this episode of the Simpler Living Podcast.

In the Clearing

By Nick Hunt, Dark Mountain Project

From February to December 2017, the grounds of Compton Verney Art Gallery hosted a collaborative artwork by Alex Hartley and Tom James (who published part of his Future Manual here two years ago). Inspired by the utopian communities of the 1960s, the Clearing is a geodesic dome constructed from reclaimed materials on the shore of a lake, and occupied year-round by a succession of ‘caretakers’ – an evolving experiment in reskilling and living off grid, ‘a reconstruction of the future as it might be.’ 

The Movement to Live More Simply Is Older Than You Think

By Roman Krznaric, YES! magazine

If we want to wean ourselves off consumer culture and learn to practice simple living, where might we find inspiration?