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Slowing the Pace of Consumerism by Design
A new book, Architecture & Design versus Consumerism: How design activism confronts growth, helps close the "meaning" gap between architecture and design's potential for social good and the...
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Three Behaviors That Can Save Us
We face a wicked predicament. Global climate disruption threatens the existence of civilization as we've known it. Global population is ballooning. Ecosystems and biological diversity are collapsing....
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But What If Nothing Happens?
I was in Boston this weekend visiting my sister, so didn't have a chance to reprise my Irene prep post or any of the other approximately two billion (ok, maybe a slight exaggeration) posts I've made...
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After Sandy, communities mobilize a new kind of disaster relief
I’m not sure when I realized that we were in the middle of a full-blown disaster...Meanwhile, a grassroots network of community-run relief stations and free kitchens has sprung up in the wake of...
View ArticleThe sufficiency economy: envisioning a prosperous way down
If a society does not have some vision of where it wants to be or what it wants to become, it cannot know whether it is heading in the right direction – it cannot even know whether it is lost. This is...
View ArticleJohn Michael Greer: If the Four Horsemen arrive, offer beer
The two narratives that I watch constantly going back and forth, I think of them as "Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-doom" of our vision of the future. It's either the narrative of progress or the narrative of...
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Crippling Intellects
People can be individually smart and collectively dumb. Or some may argue that people can be individually dumb yet collectively smart. When it comes to plotting a future path, I think we often get the...
View ArticleAusterity - at whose cost?
There are only two ways out of the real dilemma involved in this structural crisis. One is to establish a non-capitalist authoritarian world-system which will use force and deception rather than the...
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Peak Moment 224: Dignity Village - A Community By and For the Homeless, part 2
“No violence. No theft. No drugs or alcohol. No constant disruptive behavior. Everyone must contribute to the village.” While finishing our tour, Jon Hawkes lays out the five agreements residents must...
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