Consumerism
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A Global Exploration of Economic Possibilities
Highlights from the Berlin conference that attracted 200 commoners from 30 countries. Click to download (665kb PDF) The Heinrich Boll…
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The Deep Green Alternative – Debating Strategies of Transition
by Samuel Alexander and Jonathan Rutherford, Simplicity institute report 14a, 2014 Introduction Evidence continues to mount that industrial civilisation, driven…
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Addicted to Comfort
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chainstores. by George Monbiot The question has changed a little since…
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Crash on Demand? A Response to David Holmgren
D. Lange “Mr. Dougherty and kid. Warm Springs, Malheur County, Oregon” October 1939 David Holmgren, for whom I have the…
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Crash on Demand: Welcome to the Brown Tech Future
First published on Holmgren Design website Introduction This essay updates my Future Scenarios (2007) (1) work but also builds on…
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Investing Like An Ecosystem
Over the last few years, I have been formulating my opinion on how to approach investing and what do to…
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One Rolex Short of Contentment
Materialism promises satisfaction. It delivers despair. by George Monbiot All photos taken from Rich Kids of Instagram That they are…
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Man and Creature – Slaves to the Machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXY2XI00FH8 From the documentary Samsara. No words needed….
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Interview with Richard Heinberg: Do We Really Need Economic Growth?
Marcin Gerwin (Poland): For most heads of states, the prime minister of Poland included, the central point of economic policy…
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“Managing Transparency”
Editor’s Note: It’s hard to overstate the importance of fighting these behind-the-scenes actions by corporate lobbyists and lawyers. See Box…
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Spend, Don’t Mend
Advertising and consumerism dull our capacity for empathy. by George Monbiot Guilt is good. It’s the feature that distinguishes the…
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Moving Up the Food Chain
by Lester R. Brown For most of the time that human beings have walked the earth, we lived as hunter-gatherers.…
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