Sustainable Hedonism: Paradox or Pathway?
Sustainable Hedonism: A Thriving Life that Does Not Cost the Earth is a call to reflect on our beliefs and actions related to pleasure, joy and ecological sustainability.
Orsolya Lelkes
Eradicating ‘extreme poverty’ would raise global emissions by less than 1%
Lifting hundreds of millions of people out of “extreme poverty” – where they live on less than US$1.90 per day – would drive a global increase in emissions of less than 1%, according to new research.
Deliberative Democracy: The Waldenia Model
The purpose of this text is to give a brief and accessible overview of how deliberative democracy can work at its full potential. This requires a specific formula, a way of designing a democratic system, which in this case is the Waldenia Model. At the heart of this model are citizens’ assemblies.
Refugio Tinti: Reflections of Nature’s Design
Apart from being a wildlife sanctuary and a permacultural model farm, the Refugio is an education and consultation center for reforestation practices and regenerative agriculture.
Reflections on COP26
We find ourselves in the most consequential decade in the history of humanity. The choices we make now will determine what kind of future we’ll have, or whether we will have a future at all.
Can We Talk About the R-Word?
What is the proper label for a community of people who share a way of looking at life, a way of understanding who we are, a worldview that encompasses so much? The word “religion” seems like the most appropriate descriptor.
Are Electric Cars the Solution?
What we really need to do is seriously imagine a society with fewer vehicles and drivers — human-scaled technology.
Democracy Rising 10: Facilitating Democratic Conversations, Part 2
Whether we ourselves want to develop these skills, or support others to do so, to ensure a resilient future we need to grow more community members with effective group facilitation skills and mindsets.
Love Notes
We approach love only in its shallows, wading like toddlers who have not learned to swim but yet have discovered that the body can not breathe underwater. There are always children who have not yet learned to shun the waters…
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 66 Tami Simon
Tami Simon hosts the popular Sounds True podcast, Insights at the Edge, which has been downloaded more than 20 million times. With its guiding principle “to disseminate spiritual wisdom”, Sounds True has grown into a multimedia publisher that has produced over 6,000 titles. She addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
A New Vision for Economic Ecosystems: Interview with Dave Kresta (Part 2)
If you follow those steps, find a group of people, start dreaming together, start educating yourselves, start listening and identifying gaps in the community and assets in the community, then I think you’re at that point where you can actually start thinking seriously about, “Okay, which of these Community Economic Development toolkit strategies do we want to take on first?”
Rethinking land and relation in Berlin’s struggle for housing justice
What would it mean for us to belong to the city rather than for the city to belong to us? And might changing this framework also change how we organize with our neighbours?