Energy Advice: Think Long Term and at the Local Level!
Interview of Nikos Salingaros by Mumtaz Soogund on Defimedia, Mauritius, 8 March 2013.Dr. Salingaros recently joined the CT (Centrale Thermique) Power debate in Mauritius, and in this light graciously...
View ArticleBrilliant Essay by David Graeber
A brilliant essay by David Graeber, with a lot of original thoughts.- A Practical Utopian’s Guide to the Coming CollapseSome excerpts:It would explain a lot. In most of the world, the last thirty years...
View ArticleAt Odds With the Very Nature of Any Good Building
The simplified, stark, attention-seeking forms of many modern buildings -- especially those that are considered notable -- are at odds with the very nature of any good building in which there are...
View ArticleRecovery of Earth and Humanity
Using the comprehensive paradigm of conceptual tools and stepwise actions, and taking the great care that has been described, it is within our power to recover the deeper aspects of human nature and...
View ArticleThe properties of a True Collaborative Society
H Luce Says:April 2nd, 2013 at 11:25 pmAny enterprise which advertises itself as a “collaborative society” and yet is run as an entrepreneurial business with a small or one-man leadership group,...
View ArticleThe Religion of Progress
A really great essay by John Michael Greer!My comment on the essay:Progress these days mean the same as Modernism. Modernism was a break with all traditional values, especially within the field of...
View ArticleShared Values
In principle, values are those things most important to us, the things we value.For most people, they are ideals, beliefs, rules to live by. We are generally drawnto people who share our values. At the...
View ArticleMin kommentar hos Kulturverk vedrørende dypøkologiens tredje lag
Min kommentar til artikkel på Kulturverg ang. dypøkologiens tredje lag. Les artikkelen her.I min opprinnelige kommentar kom jeg til å skrive "intensifering" istedenfor intensivering, som en norsk avart...
View ArticleLand and Resource Scarcity (Capitalism, Struggle and Well-being in a World...
This book brings together geological, biological, radical economic, technological, historical and social perspectives on peak oil and other scarce resources. The contributors to this volume argue that...
View ArticleThe Empathic Civilisation
Book: Why We Cooperate, by Michael Tomasello (Boston Review Books), 2009Description"Tomasello, co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, studied the cooperative behavior of...
View ArticleEremozoikum – «ensomhetens tidsalder»
Det er her grunn til å minne om hva som står på spill. I den kjente amerikanske biologen Edward O. Wilsons bok The Diversity of Life (1994) har han skapt ordet eremozoikum – «ensomhetens tidsalder»....
View ArticleBeautiful Images of the Eishin Campus (Higashino High School) in Cherry...
Follow this link!Photo: Takeshi KakedaThe book describing the making of this beautiful campus. Buy it here!
View ArticleA Modernist Attack on Our Children
Fagerborg menighetsbarnehage, a Norwegian kindergarten, a modernist attack on our children. A prison. A threat. An image of a lost future!
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