Commons Way of Life vs. Market Way of Life
by Silke HelfrichThe market has always been with us. What’s new about life in the last three hundred years — and especially the last thirty — is that the buying and selling of goods is the overriding...
View ArticleGT about JMG
See the original comment here.Greer is looking at agricultural societies. The farmers there could just pick up and join another agricultural society if their society collapsed, even if the existing...
View ArticleSandras dåp (Hunn kirke 1. mars 2015)
This christening robe is about 100 years old.Denne dåpskjolen er 100 år gammel.The rest of the photos are not of interest for the general public, just for friends and family.I bestefars fangSå var det...
View ArticleDen kommende trealderen
I framtida vil våre etterkommere måtte klare seg uten metallredskaper:I don’t see a way we could build up enough of a network of knowledgeable people to build an agricultural society. We would need to...
View ArticleCollapse Now and Avoid the Rush
In other news, I’m delighted to report the publication of a new book of mine that may be of particular interest to readers of this blog: Collapse Now and Avoid the Rush: The Best of the Archdruid...
View ArticlePeak Meaninglessness
By John Michael Greer. Original post here.That form came in for discussion in the same post two weeks ago that brought the issue of externalities into this blog’s ongoing conversation. Quite a few...
View ArticlePrestestua på Eiktunet
Dette fotoet var dagens bilde i Oppland Arbeiderblad i dag, og ble tatt tilbake i januar. Det var tilfeldig jeg fikk se det, da jeg har et infernalskt avisbud og derfor ikke kan holde lokalavisa. Så...
View ArticleBinders for Natural Plasters (from the Sustainable Home)
- Binders for Natural Plasters (Part 1)- Binders part 2: gypsum and lime
View ArticleWHOLENESS: THE FOUNDATION OF A LIVING NEIGHBORHOOD
By Christopher Alexander. Original text here.Published at P2P-Foundation on 13th December 2014.EVERY ACT IS TAKEN IN THE CONTEXT OF SOME WHOLENESSThe wholeness exists to begin with as a structure in...
View ArticleEkte bolyst på Toten
Jeg setter i dag opp igjen et av mine første innlegg på Permaliv, fra 6. mars 2011.Østre Toten ønsker å øke bolysten. Det gjør de ikke ved å satse videre på byggefelt fundamentert på sosial atomisme og...
View ArticleBevar Kvernum for kvernene
Da jeg var innom biblioteket i dag tok jeg en titt på Totens Blad, før jeg hastet videre til svømmehallen for å benytte et av de siste klippene på et gammelt svømmekort vi fant igjen under et ryddesjau...
View ArticleBilen fyller havet med mikroplast og syre
At CO2 omdannes til syre i sjøvann har vi visst lenge. Nå kommer nyheten om at bildekk er den viktigste enkeltkilden til mikroplast i havet, og slår alle andre kilder ned i støvlene.Her ser vi en...
View ArticleThe Solar PV Ideas are Just Plain Crazy
We can’t run our economy without the electric grid. Everything collapses–your bank can’t operate without electricity.The solar PV ideas are just plain crazy. Who wants to live on a local island of PV,...
View ArticleCommunity Discussion as the Foundation for a New Neighborhood
By Christopher Alexander. Original text here.Published at P2P-Foundation on 7th December 2014.GO OUT AND THINK ABOUT THINGS BY YOURSELFTo start with, it’s a good idea to go to the place where you think...
View ArticleLockeanismen på fremmarsj
Å unngå det suburbane helvete blir hele tida vanskeligere. Den isolerte eneboligen og den hellige eiendomsretten, arven fra Descartes og Locke, dyrkes i stadig mer ekstreme former. Å skape noe i...
View ArticleThe Fateful Choice: The Pilgrims Assign Private Property Rights in Land
By David Bollier, original article here.As Bradford wrote: ‘‘And no man now thought he could live except he had catle and a great deale of ground to keep them all, all striving to increase their...
View ArticleHow To Live Off-Grid Without Plumbing (And Why You Should Consider It)
Although starting the day with a shower can make up for many hours of lost sleep, and free you for the worst of nightmares, we should prepare for an off-pipe future. It will of course come, together...
View ArticleA New Kind of World
By Christopher AlexanderPublished at P2P-Foundation on August 4, 2014A world in which we experience, daily, our unity with the universeA world which is made like nature – and in which we are daily...
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