Samuel Alexander
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Aug- 2014 -21 August
Degrowth and the Carbon Budget: Powerdown Strategies for Climate Stability
Samuel Alexander (1), Simplicity Institute Climate change is not ‘a problem’ waiting for ‘a solution’. It is an environmental, cultural,…
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Jul- 2014 -30 July
Composting Toilets Made From Wheelie Bins
I just read a post on composting toilets here on the PRI site and remembered that I never posted about…
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8 July
Superadobe Workshop (Moe, Victoria, Australia, 11-17 October, 2014)
This workshop will be held at an experimental sustainable building property near Moe, Victoria, Australia. On the property already is…
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Jan- 2014 -23 January
The Deep Green Alternative – Debating Strategies of Transition
by Samuel Alexander and Jonathan Rutherford, Simplicity institute report 14a, 2014 Introduction Evidence continues to mount that industrial civilisation, driven…
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Nov- 2013 -22 November
Building With Mud 6-Day Workshop (Moe, Victoria, Australia, February 2014)
I wrote recently about the Earthship workshop that I’m organising and participating in this coming December, as part of the…
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Oct- 2013 -25 October
Want to Help Build an Earthship? (December 7 – 13, 2013, Victoria, Australia)
A couple of months ago I wrote about the ecovillage project that I am involved in, a project that is…
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4 October
The Hour is Darkest just before Dawn: Crisis as Opportunity
The Festival of Ideas is on at the University of Melbourne at the moment, and I was invited to give…
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Sep- 2013 -11 September
Peak Oil Is Alive and Well, and Costing the Earth
by Dr Samuel Alexander, co-director of the Simplicity Institute and a lecturer with the Office for Environmental Programs, University of…
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2 September
Living Without a Fridge
by Dr Samuel Alexander, co-director of the Simplicity Institute and a lecturer with the Office for Environmental Programs, University of…
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Aug- 2013 -21 August
Want to Help Create an Ecovillage? (Victoria, Australia)
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing…
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Jul- 2013 -11 July
Charter of the Deep Future: Enough, For Everyone, Forever
Below is a short excerpt from Samuel Alexander’s new book, Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation. This book is a creative…
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Jun- 2013 -14 June
Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation
Paul Gilding, author of The Great Disruption, has described Entropia as "a masterful work of the imagination… a literary manifesto…
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