Stranger in a strange land
Everything pulses, and pulses maximize the flow of power in systems. I pulsed in a big way this year.
Consumerism
The Good Life Lab: Living a Decommodified Life
We realized that instead of making the goods we needed to live, we bought them.
Information, preferences, knowledge and belief
For billions of people nature and the eco-system have become “out of sight and out of mind”.
Our daily conveniences are somebody else’s suffering
What would it look like to consume and use resources in a way that does not look the other way?
Cool capitalism: changing the principles of protest
It’s 45 years since the wave of youth-led rebellions that followed Paris’s May Events in 1968, and the anniversary has reawakened "culture war" debates…
Happiness and the New Simplicity: The Living Room Revolution of Community
For years I’ve talked to people about voluntary simplicity, and for years people have responded with: “What’s that thing you’re involved in—that self-deprivation movement?”
The high price of materialism
A war on climate change is a war on materialism, plain and simple.
The Brief, Tragic Reign of Consumerism—and the birth of a happy alternative
You and I consume; we are consumers. The global economy is set up to enable us to do what we innately want to do—buy, use, discard, and buy some more.