A Zen View Upon the World (Less is More)
Today, at least in Norway, we have too much of everything, and hence we value nothing.
Consumerism
How to Avoid Being Eaten Alive
What do you do if your government is selling off the state’s assets, building a future famine machine and placing explosive nuclear detonators around your homeland?
Our month about “stuff”!
For this month’s theme we’ll be exploring, in the run up to Christmas, our relationship with "stuff" from different angles.
Five Christmas Gifts that Keep on Giving
Tis the season for gift giving, and if mainstream economists are right, then the best possible gifts are the ones that contribute the most to economic growth.
Black Friday strikes back with ‘freedom to shop’
Apparently, somebody in the retail industry was also worried that protests would cut into their sales.
Got the Urge to ‘Shop, Baby, Shop?’ Stay Home and Watch GrowthBusters on Black Friday
This year on Black Friday, we’re offering the world an alternative to mayhem at the mall.
The Crisis of Representation and Autonomy of Self
The thirst for real democracy is a thirst to be free. It is the spirit that drives us to find our true aspirations within.
A Vision for Architecture as More Than the Sum of Its Parts
We conclude on a hopeful assertion: that real choice does in fact exist for a more bottom-up, evolutionary approach to planning and design, one that offers the basis of a new era of ecological humanism in architecture, at a time when such a reform is desperately needed.
Two Kinds of Power
The words “stop buying” barely scratch the surface of what is actually required of us. It is like saying to an alcoholic, “Just stay away from bars”—when he drives by twenty of them on the way home from work each day. No, to challenge the mad machine world we’ve built—and we must challenge it—we have to dig deep.
It’s time to replace more with better
What if the goal of our economy wasn’t more, but better—better health, better jobs and a better chance to survive on the planet? Shouldn’t that be what winning means?
Gus Speth: “What We’ve Got to Get Us Through is Each Other”
What we’ve got, mainly, to get us through life, with a maximum of happiness and a minimum of suffering, is each other.
Deep thought headlines
•The Fossil Fuels War
•On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs
•Big Data, Disaster Resilience and Lord of the Rings
•Dreaming of Uncivilisation