Tre velmente råd for de nye natursamfunnene
I dag bor jeg i hva jeg trodde var et lommenabolag, og det er det vel også, men dog et B-lommenabolag, og ikke sammenlignbart med de velsignelser som ville overøst meg og min familie hvis det var i...
View ArticleMine bilder fra Hovelsrud, Helgøya, benyttet på lokalhistoriewikien
Etter lenge kun å ha søkt etter bruk av mine bilder på Google søkte jeg nå på Kvasir, og fikk flere nye treff. Morsomst var at bildene fra mitt besøk på Hovelsrud gård på Helgøya sist sommer var...
View Article“The biological Human Being – individuals and societies in light of...
Download first chapter here (pdf)Author and co-author:Terje Bongard, Researcher at Norw. Inst. for Nature Research,Eivin Røskaft, Professor in biology at the Norw. Univ. of Science and Technology,...
View ArticleMichel Bauwens and the New Socioeconomic Alternatives
Michel Bauwens is opening a discursive path which, in my judgement, prepares new consensuses and tools broad social and ideological sectors fit into. It would be a mistake to see it as something...
View ArticleMedieval Prosperity and the Absence of Usurious Lending Practices
By Ellen Brown:(excerpted from chapter 5 of the book, Web of Debt) "Modern schoolbooks generally portray the Middle Ages as a time of poverty, backwardness, and economic slavery, from which the people...
View ArticleComing Soon: Think Like a Commoner
My year got off to a zippy start when Ralph Nader named my new book – due out in February – as #1 in his list of “Ten Books to Provoke Conversation in the New Year.” Thanks, Ralph!Think Like a...
View ArticleReport: The Crisis and the Emergence of Communal Experiments in Greece
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View ArticleTake a Break
In principle, activities that contribute to good group decisions are not alwaysbest done by the group as a whole. Often times information, ideas, and potentialsolutions are all put on the table in such...
View ArticleWat Arun Temple
Entrance doorway to ordination hall with Yaksha guardians in the Wat Arun Temple, Bangkok, Thailand. Photo: Diego Delso
View ArticleThe Stress Reservoir
Christopher Alexander, The Phenomenon of Life, pages 376 – 378:We shall understand the negative effect of environment on human freedom more deeply by considering the phenomenon of stress.Broadly...
View ArticleLysvett i vintermørket
Meget god artikkel fra "Vi i villa" om å benytte lysvett når man lyser opp uteområdene. Ellers blir det lett lysforurensning, til sjenanse for naboen og til skam for deg selv. Husk også at lamper i...
View ArticleThe Man Who Started a Fire (Christopher Alexander Lecture at Berkeley,...
Jump to 12:20 to skip introductionsAs said in the introduction to this lecture held in spring 2011, Christopher Alexander has started a fire that keeps on burning, spread by the ‘wind’ throughout the...
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