Society

Mayor McCheese & Modern Medicine: the Good & Bad of High Energy Modernity (Episode 23 of Crazy Town)

By Asher Miller, Rob Dietz, Jason Bradford, originally published by Resilience.org

April 23, 2020

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Asher Miller

Asher became the Executive Director of Post Carbon Institute in October 2008, after having served as the manager of our former Relocalization Network program. He’s worked in the nonprofit sector since 1996 in various capacities. Prior to joining Post Carbon Institute, Asher founded Climate Changers, an organization that inspires people to reduce their impact on the climate by focusing on simple and achievable actions anyone can take.

Tags: building resilient societies, Crazy Town

After DeepSeek, AI developers are wrong that The Jevons Paradox will bail them out

By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights

The dramatic drop in the cost of AI demonstrated by Chinese upstart DeepSeek is great for buyers of AI tools, but very bad for the incumbent developers of those tools.

February 2, 2025

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Learning New Ways of Becoming Human

By Carlos Álvarez Pereira , Solutions Journal

As anticipated 50 years ago by the Club of Rome, tensions between our ever-expanding modes of exploitation and the finiteness of the planet’s resources have now become a critical factor in the evolution of human societies.

January 31, 2025

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Power vs Life: Towards Wide Boundary Sovereignty

By Nate Hagens, The Great Simplification

In this Frankly, Nate outlines nine aspirational categories for empowering more individuals towards mature and resilient development in service of life.

January 29, 2025