Down a Stairway from Norra Benickebrinken
A man walking down a stairway from Norra Benickebrinken to Österlånggatan.
View ArticleFrodig i Gamla stan (Biophilia and Healing Environments)
Tenk å bo her, midt i Gamla stan med en egen liten park i bakgården. Uten en bil i gatene. Hadde det ikke vært fordi modernistisk liberalisme har gjort menneskelig sivilisasjon dummere enn en hvilken...
View ArticleWhat's the Secret of Making a Happy City?
...or a happy pocket neighborhoodBy Ruth Wilson. Original text here."We might start by using potted plants, benches, and picnic tables to block cars from entering the streets at the heart of our...
View ArticleSpikern på hodet!
Les artikkelen kommentaren er knyttet til her.Vidunderlig "spade for spade"-retorikk fra en MDGs representant. Endelig en artikkel i jungelen av luftslott og grunn økologi og tro på mennesket og...
View ArticleSuburbia Eliminates the Public Realm
I don't believe automobile suburbs are an adequate replacement for cities, since the motive force behind suburbia has been the exaltation of privacy and the elimination of the public realm. Where city...
View ArticleMy Image of Mythical Princess Libuše Used in a New Book on Czech Legend and...
I was happy to find my image of Libuše on page 64 in a new book!The Esoteric Codex: Czech Legend and FolkloreOctober 5, 2015 by Nicolas Kraushaar (Author)Buy the book on Amazon here.It's really...
View ArticleHuman Beings are “Agents of Disturbance”
- Turns out ancient humans were bad for nature, too!To understand what it means to change how species coexist, think of interspecies relationships as falling into three broad categories: aggregated,...
View ArticleAffordability is the First Big Chock to Hit Humanity
Comment by Gail Tverberg:One point that many people have missed is that there are really two different thermodynamic limits that we are approaching:1. The limit of a depleting battery, if a person...
View ArticleStemning fra Kaffekoppen
Kaffekoppen er en kafè ved Stortorget i Gamla stan i Stockholm. En hyggelig, slitt liten sak. Se også min stemningsrapport fra Stortorget:- Kaffekoppen & Chocladkoppen ved Stortorget i Gamla...
View Article«Affordability»-veggen
Kommentar her.Nettopp! Dette er et hovedpoeng hos Tverberg, at lavstatusarbeidere må få et skikkelig lønnshopp for å berge prisene på forbruksvarer. Luksusvarer som yatcher og privatfly og champagne...
View ArticleEconomic Growth Houses
From a conversation with Gail Tverberg.I just looked at a documentary telling that in antique Antioch there lived 172 people per dekar (not sure if it was per dekar), while in today’s New York there...
View ArticleThe only "high tech trap" exists in the minds of those who can't see outside...
Øyvind, how come it's impossible to go from cars back to horses when it was perfectly possible to go from horses to cars, and there was a very elaborate and expensive infrastructure around horses and...
View ArticleMorgon på Brantingtorget
Skulpturen heter Morgon, og jeg var på stedet om morgonen 9. okt. 2015 kl. 08:12.Egentlig er ikke dette en så aller verst erstatning for ødeleggelsen av det gamle Gamla stan, som fant sted her, selv om...
View ArticleAllmenningene vender tilbake
- SOLEN VENDER TILBAKETakk for styrkende ord! Likesom solen var i ferd med å forsvinne, så var også allmenningene. Måtte vi se allmenningenes tilbakekomst nå som kapitalisme som sivilisasjon er en saga...
View ArticleRoddier’s Third Law of Thermodynamics Will End Technology
Actually, technology can disappear even sooner than when the net energy from fossil fuels becomes negative. The economy needs a growing (net) energy supply to continue to grow. Perhaps efficiency and...
View ArticleThe Culture of Architecture was Lost to Modernism and its Dogmas
A further consequence is that two generations have grown up and matured in Norway without experiencing what it is to live in a human habitat of quality. We have lost so much culture in the sense of how...
View ArticleWhat MEDOSS was Meant to Complement
Read about MEDOSS here.First time poster, Hello everyone! This is a bit of a tangental rant and scrolling past is excused :)I’ve been cogitating over Fast Eddy’s claims that collapse hasn’t come sooner...
View ArticleWe All Go Down With China
The first of the articles you link to says, “It is this slowdown in China’s debt creation that is the true reason behind the global growth slowdown experienced both in China and around the globe.” This...
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