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The Power of Lo-TEK: A Design Movement to Rebuild Understanding of Indigenous Philosophy and Vernacular Architecture
The Power of Lo-TEK: A Design Movement to Rebuild Understanding of Indigenous Philosophy and Vernacular Architecture A Mythology of Technology: Stemming from the Greek mythos, meaning “story of the people,” mythology has guided mankind for millennia. Three hundred years ago, intellectuals of the European Enlightenment constructed a mythology of technology. Influenced by a confluence of humanism, colonialism, and racism, the […]
Donella Meadows: Sustainable Systems
Donella Meadows: Sustainable Systems
Climate adaptation: resilience, self-sufficiency and systems change
Climate adaptation: resilience, self-sufficiency and systems change This weekend marks the beginning of COP26. After being delayed for nearly a year because of COVID, diplomats, scientists, corporate lobbyists, NGOs, students, demonstrators, corporations, heads of state, and many, many other invited and uninvited guests are already making their way to Glasgow Scotland for what has been […]
Returning to a 1970s Economy Could Save Our Future
Returning to a 1970s Economy Could Save Our Future We’d contract energy use by half. Shrinking consumption is the solution we can actually live with. Second of two. A society that consumes less energy and stuff could rehumanize society and heal the biosphere. [Editor’s note: Read part one of this two-parter here.] Thanks to bright green […]
Get Ready for Food Rationing
Get Ready for Food Rationing It was a very strange moment when this week the spokesperson for the president defended inflation as a high-class problem. She explained that higher prices are merely a sign that economic activity is picking up. People are buying things and that’s good. Of course that pushes up prices, she said. […]
The Scientists Are Terrified
The Scientists Are Terrified A survey of the world’s top climate researchers shows a stark finding: Most expect catastrophic levels of heating and damage soon—very soon. Photo: Fadel Senna/AFP (Getty Images) A new Nature survey shows a majority of the world’s leading climate scientists expect “catastrophic” impacts in their lifetimes driven by rising greenhouse gas emissions. Brilliant […]
‘Your grocery stores are like museums’: Then and now
‘Your grocery stores are like museums’: Then and now About 15 years ago I helped to host a group of Russian entrepreneurs during one stop on their tour of the United States, a tour sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce. As we hosts accompanied our visitors, we naturally fell into conversation with them. One of […]
Russia’s deputy chairman of the Security Council warns of major food crisis
Russia’s deputy chairman of the Security Council warns of major food crisis Read more At: https://www.aninews.in/news/world/asia/russias-deputy-chairman-of-the-security-council-warns-of-major-food-crisis20211101131512/?fbclid=IwAR10LvlQqZOeS3kQwU71Jte_oG08IGPZcENnMDtl24sEKU1i7-q_uk4MDck
Intermission: The Machine Stops?
Intermission: The Machine Stops? ‘I have seen the hills of Wessex.’ “The Machine,” they exclaimed, “feeds us and clothes us and houses us; through it we speak to one another, through it we see one another, in it we have our being. The Machine is the friend of ideas and the enemy of superstition: the […]
Marti’s Corner – 40
Marti’s Corner – 40 * So I decided to follow my own advice and can some vegetables this week. I bought 20 pounds of potatoes for $6 and then went here: Canning Potatoes Last time I canned potatoes, I did NOT soak them first to get the starch out. When I opened them, I had to […]
Creating a Preferred Future
Creating a Preferred Future
