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Pink Attack!
Ultimately I'm not convinced you can have any kind of functional relationship with consumer culture -- even though, of course, I have one. I live in large measure off the waste of industrial society, a...
View ArticleWords which matter to people
I wish to argue only this: that the end of all our questioning will not be a set of universal abstractions that transcend the messiness and peculiarity of the local cultural concepts with which we find...
View ArticleRunning on empty: big airlines in big trouble
Most people living in our modern industrial society take air travel for granted. We think very little about hopping on a plane and travelling around the world for little more than a couple of weeks...
View ArticleMother: Caring for 7 Billion (documentary film review)
The documentary takes a penetrating look at overpopulation, what fuels it and why the world has become complacent about the issue after making a good start in addressing it during the late 60s. The...
View ArticleFrom Denmark to Bhutan: the policies of happiness
Over the last 100 years, living standards in the West have improved enormously, but it appears that people have not become much happier. In 2006, the first ‘Happy Planet Index’ (HPI) measured happiness...
View ArticleThe Apocalypse of the Teacher (The Book of the Great Divide)
When the teacher arrived, people were already beginning to talk of a Great Divide, a disagreement that would eventually split the city. There were people on both sides who had strong convictions, and...
View ArticleThe simplicity exercises: a sourcebook for simplicity exercises
This book takes us in a new direction, moving beyond the analytical stage of defending simplicity and criticising growth-based, consumer-orintated economies, toward the recognition that our primary...
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Degrowth and peak oil
Today, we are discussing another kind of degrowth, intended mostly as a personal choice and most of us seem to believe that it is a good thing. It is an attitude that looks similar to the one we had...
View ArticleThe end of economic growth - Richard Heinberg in Australia
In this one hour presentation, Richard Heinberg explains the close link between the resource/environment and the social/economic components of the present disintegration.read more
View ArticleThe sufficiency economy: envisioning a prosperous way down
If a society does not have some vision of where it wants to be or what it wants to become, it cannot know whether it is heading in the right direction – it cannot even know whether it is lost. This is...
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