People Systems
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Resilience Through Simplification: Revisiting Tainter’s Theory of Collapse
Below, Samuel Alexander summarises his new Simplicity Institute Report, which discusses ‘voluntary simplification’ in the context of Joseph Tainter’s theory…
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Village Repair: Permaculture Design Maquettes for Small Towns and Villages
by Delvin Solkinson Download the free, open source printable files for 3 placemaking worksheets here : Placemaking Worksheets (PDF) The…
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Permaculture: A Call for Diversity
Sri Lankan tea plantation worker Photograph © copyright Craig Mackintosh For the past year, I have been circumnavigating the world…
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Rio+20: What Ecovillages Offer
It is the start of Rio+20, the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, and the Global Ecovillage Network has a strong…
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PRI Networking, the Value of Collaboration, and the Development of More PRI Education/Demonstration Projects
Do we segregate…? Photos © PRI Most of us are by now wholly cognizant of the fact that the global…
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Letters from New Zealand: Villages for the Future — a Look at Bob Corker and the Kotare Ecovillage
Kotare Village surrounds, west of Wairoa, in the Hawkes Bay region of New Zealand’s North Island All photographs © PRI…
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Pietro Zucchetti Interviews Rob Hopkins
This is an interview with Rob Hopkins, the founder of the Transition Town movement founded in Totnes, United Kingdom. The…
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Surveying Commons Activism on the International Stage
The following is an adaptation of my notes for my talk at the Occupy Wall Street “Making Worlds” conference on…
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Update on Sociocracy Workshop, Brisbane (March 2012)
What: Sociocracy Workshop When: March 16-17, with an additional, optional Advanced Training day on March 19 (1.1mb PDF flyer) Where:…
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A Manifesto for Psychopaths
Ayn Rand’s ideas have become the Marxism of the new right. by George Monbiot: journalist, author, academic and environmental and…
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Free Your (Eco)Mind
Think like an ecosystem, and you just might save the world Gradually it’s dawned on me: We humans are creatures…
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