People Systems
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Elections: Understanding the Invisible Structures – an Interview with Peter Emerson
Peter Emerson is the director of the de Borda Institute in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is a leading authority on…
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A “Pattern Language” for Women in Permaculture
Children planting pumpkins. Photo by Jeanine Carlson Though women receive the majority of all college degrees in the U.S., and…
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A Shorter Working Week is Possible
Click for full view Marcin Gerwin: It was predicted in the 1930 by the economist John Maynard Keynes that thanks…
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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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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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Majority Voting is Inadequate – an Interview with Peter Emerson
This is an extended version of the interview which first appeared in Dziennik Opinii in Polish. Peter Emerson is the…
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Permaculture’s Achilles’ Heel
There are some challenges in permaculture that do need to be addressed. And it is not what we commonly think…
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Connected – A Film for Change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXuWqMiwSis ‘Connected’ is a film made by Paul and Kate Maple, a UK based family who have made it their…
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Retrofitting a Small Town
For the last four years, I have been dreaming of retrofitting a small town with a group of like-minded individuals…
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Transition Towns – Organizing For Resilience (video)
Rob Hopkins, instigator of the Transition Towns movement, is on tour in the U.S. This video is a 90 minute…
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Syria Back-Story, Part I: Internal Displacement and the Story Framework
Editor’s Note: Some time ago I asked one of my permaculture contacts in Syria if they could give us some…
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