Society
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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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Preserving the Past to Serve the Future – Wellbeing Farm, A Pragmatic Approach to Permaculture, Transition, and Reskilling (USA)
After leaving the Mid-Atlantic Transition Hub Waterways Reskilling gathering held on November 23, 2013 I realized that the practitioners who…
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My Story, in Contribution to Our Story of Hope (Zimbabwe)
by Mugove Walter Nyika I grew up with my grandparents in a village 200 km south of the capital Harare,…
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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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Losing the Big Teacher
Members of any society must know a great many things in common…. Whether they know them can make a fatal…
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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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Syria Back-Story, Part 2: Blood For Oil
Continuing from Part I. Almost all conflicts that take place in the Middle East are motivated by the need to…
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The Farm: Where We Have Come From and Our Plans For the Future
As we in the North approach the winter solstice — traditionally a time of slowing down, contemplation, and letting go…
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Invest in Humanity (video)
In this compelling video montage (an artistic blend of TED talks, Burning Man, Samsara and others) Tim Jackson redefines our…
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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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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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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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