The Problem of Cars
WHAT CARS DO:Kills street lifeDamages the social fabric of communitiesIsolates peopleDestroy common land with parking lotsFosters suburban sprawlEndangers other street usersBlots the city's...
View ArticleBygg revet og ødelagt ved Agatunet
Foto: Egil Torheim / NRK25 bygg er revet og flere degradert ved Agatunet i Ullensvang. Dette er forferdelig, da Agatunet representerer en av de få ikke-suburbane strukturer som er tilbake i Norge, og...
View ArticleHva du som hageeier kan gjøre for å gynne sommerfugler
Vanlige hageeiere kan også bidra, gjennom å dyrke sommerfuglvennlige planter som timian, bergmynte og kardeborrearter. - Sommerfuglene trenger flere engerFoto: Michael H. Lemmer
View ArticleSnow Crystals (Snøkrystaller)
Foto: Alexey Kljatov @ChaoticMind75/FlickrSee 14 fantastic pictures of snow crystals here.
View ArticleNikos A. Salingaros samtaler med J.A. Arnfinsen på det norske...
Lytt til samtalen mellom Salingaros og Arnfinsen:- Episode 84: Creating buildings and environments that support lifeIntervjuet starter med en redegjørelse av hvordan Salingaros fattet interesse for...
View ArticleJuletreet 2013
Årets juletre ble funnet rett bak fabrikken i Krabyskogen, og er et av de beste vi har hatt. Nesten synd vi skal feire jul på Grue i år.Her blir jula i år, mine foreldre har vært flinke og stått på for...
View ArticleWinner of the ‘Co-operative Alternatives to Capitalism’ essay prize
Read the prize winning essay by Nic Wistreich:- Open Source Capitalism (pdf)
View Article7 Environmental Problems That Are Worse Than We Thought
With as much attention as the environment has been getting lately, you’d think that we’d be further along in our fight to preserve the world’s species, resources and the beautiful diversity of nature....
View ArticleJulenissen fra Syria
I år kom julenissen fra Syria, og han så ganske skummel utSkinnet kan bedra; bare snille gaverSelv om julenissen så litt skummel ut viste han seg å være ganske snill, og veslejenta kalte ham bestefar...
View ArticleHow Communitarian Culture Changes the World: the example of Co-Housing
In Norway we have the largest immigration numbers of Europe, so industry and the state tell we need to build thousands of new dwellings. At the same time we have the largest per person square metres of...
View ArticleMaterial about Christopher Alexander (collected by my friend Federico...
- Material about Christopher AlexanderChristopher Alexander to the right
View ArticlePatternDynamics: Following The Way Nature Organizes Itself to Deal with...
by David MacLeod, originally published by Integral PermacultureThe natural world is staggeringly complex, and yet amazingly elegant in how it manages the multitude of interconnected parts into...
View ArticleIn Places where Vehicles are Not a Threat and do Not Impose their Noise
One more example of the social interations that are possible in places where vehicles are not a threat and do not impose their noise. Via J.h. Crawford
View ArticleShoe City: Cheap People, Cheap Nature
The Chinese firm Huajian, which makes shoes for Tommy Hilfiger, Guess, Naturalizer, Clarkes and other western brands, is building a ‘shoe city’ in Ethiopia.This global hub for the shoe and accessory...
View Article7 Things Everyone Knows about Energy that Just ain't So (2013 Edition)
by Kurt Cobb, originally published by Resource Insights Mark Twain once said, "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." And, there are...
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