{"id":11503,"date":"2015-08-26T10:07:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T15:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11503"},"modified":"2015-08-26T10:07:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T15:07:19","slug":"a-simpler-way-crisis-as-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11503","title":{"rendered":"A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/a-simpler-way-crisis-as-opportunity#\/story\" target=\"_blank\">A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"youtube_video\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wFom7vJiSzQ?fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"i-musty-background i-padded-block-20 i-passport-tagline ng-scope\">\n<div>A documentary about simple living, permaculture, and local economy as a response to global crises.<\/div>\n<div class=\"i-campaign-tags-container\">\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/indiegogo-media-prod-cld\/image\/upload\/c_limit,w_620\/v1440031611\/pjrkhhynhjdntg3a9jg8.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"i-description ng-scope\">\n<div>\n<p>The dominant mode of global development today seeks to universalise high-consumption consumer lifestyles, but this has produced perverse inequalities of wealth and \u2013 to an extent that is no longer possible to ignore \u2013 is environmentally catastrophic.\u00a0We are called on to take shorter showers, recycle, buy \u2018green\u2019 products, and turn the lights off when we leave the room, but these measures are grossly inadequate. We need more fundamental change \u2013 personally, culturally, and structurally.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the documentary is to envision a way of life that positively responds to the overlapping global crises of climate change, peak oil, economic collapse, and \u00a0consumerism. Genuine progress today means building\u00a0a new, more resilient world based on permaculture, simple living, renewable energy, and localised economies.Most of all, we need to reimagine the good life beyond consumer culture and begin building a world\u00a0that supports a simpler way of life. This\u00a0does not mean hardship or deprivation. It means focusing on having\u00a0<i>enough, for everyone, forever<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Simpler Way: Crisis as Opportunity A documentary about simple living, permaculture, and local economy as a response to global crises. \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 The dominant mode of global development today seeks to universalise high-consumption consumer lifestyles, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[8466,425,1134,622,8465],"class_list":["post-11503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-high-consumption","tag-inequality","tag-local-economy","tag-permaculture","tag-simpler-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11504,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11503\/revisions\/11504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}