Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals and the Art of Roughness
Watersheds can be considered a type of real-world network that is characterized by self-repeating or fractal-like patterns. Fractals are geometric patterns that possess the same proportions on...
View ArticleVøringfossen er de norske fossefallenes Chartres!
Vøringfossen er et utrolig sterkt senter og derfor et hellig sted. At en arkitekt skal få fylle dette stedet med sitt ego er forkastelig. Modernistene har allerede infiltrert kirken, nå gir de seg...
View ArticleEn kompleks misforståelse
Kommentar hos Levevei:Jeg satte meg ned for å lytte til dette intervjuet fordi jeg kjente meg så trøtt, og ville slappe av med en filosofisk diskusjon. Men jeg ble straks meget oppbrakt når Stålne...
View ArticleKompleksitet og selvorganisering
Kommentar hos Levevei:I nattens mulm og mørke kom jeg til å huske et meget viktig essay av James Howard Kunstler i Orion Magazine for et par år tilbake, kalt Back to the...
View ArticleThe Song Remains the Same
By John Michael Greer.If you always do what you’ve always done, a popular saying nowadays has it, you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten. Most people accept that readily enough in the abstract....
View ArticleOil Industry: Stay Away from Lofoten!
A view to Djupfjorden in Moskenesøya towards northwest, Lofoten, Nordland, Norway in 2010 September. Click on the image for a magnification. Photo: Simo Räsänen
View ArticleNew and Old Bridge
These two bridges are situated on the same site, at Minnesund across Vorma River. I hope you too can feel the peace of the old bridge and the cold starkness of the new one. A clear evidence of the...
View ArticlePlanter gir hverandre pep-talks
Fra forskning.no:(Illustrasjonsfoto: iStockphoto)Å ha en naboprat øker spiring hos chili-frø, i følge ny forskning.Selv når andre kjente midler for kommunikasjon, som kontakt og signaler formidlet...
View ArticleUnderlying Assumptions of a Global Villages Network
1. We think that the biggest requirement of our time is to rebalance our lifestyle with the planet we are living with; in particular this means a physical transformation from a world of large...
View ArticleGIVE, the Global Villages Movement
From P2P-Foundation.GIVE aims for Globally Integrated Village Environments, and is an initiative by Franz Nahrada to promote the expansion of Global VillagesHere below, Franz explains its sevens...
View ArticleThe World is Collapsing in Front of Our Eyes
Ouromboros, exactly! The decline that's already taking place around us doesn't have any big explosions or fireworks; that's why so many people are so terrified of it, and invent a flurry of imaginary...
View ArticleNew Free E-Book: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages
Book: The Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages by Jean Gimpel:...
View ArticleThe Future Proof Enterprise: How to Create Resilient, Enduring and Meaningful...
The Future Proof Enterprise from Simone Cicero- The Future Proof Enterprise: how to create Resilient, Enduring and Meaningful Businesses
View ArticleHow Far is the “Bright Future”?
[Simone Cicero] : Despite your theories are often referred as radically pessimistic you often evoke a “bright” future ahead of us: why should this future be so bright with the premises we all know? How...
View ArticleBecome Entrepreneurial. Work Locally. Be Productive. Network.
[Simone Cicero] : Are GenYrs and Millennials ready for this cultural leap forward (or backwards, depending on how do you see it)?[John Robb] : Some. Many are constrained by old ways of thinking. For...
View ArticleAlatskivi Castle
Alatskivi manor main building in Estonia. Built in 1880–1885 and modelled after the Balmoral castle in Scotland. Photo: Ivar Leidus
View ArticleRaknehaugen
Raknehaugen er Nordens største gravhaug, den ligger i Ullensaker, rett sør for Gardermoen. Tidligere var det mange gravhauger i området, men dessverre er de fleste jevnet med jorden. Heldigvis lot de...
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