Samuel Alexander
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Apr- 2013 -30 April
How to Build a Cheap Raised Garden Bed
I’ve been advancing my guerilla gardening efforts recently, with a significant new raised bed now beautifying my nature strip, as…
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Jan- 2013 -30 January
How to Grow Your Own Oyster Mushrooms on Straw
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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14 January
Psychedelic Garden Love
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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Dec- 2012 -19 December
My Post-Electric Washing Machine: The Deindustrial 2020
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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Nov- 2012 -24 November
The Sufficiency Economy – Envisioning a Prosperous Way Down
Editor’s Preamble: I would exhort readers to ignore the potentially off-putting length of this piece, to instead step into, and…
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Oct- 2012 -24 October
My Solar Oven: Renewable Energy the Simpler Way
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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Sep- 2012 -28 September
Radical Simplicity and the Middle-Class – Exploring the Lifestyle Implications of a ‘Great Disruption’
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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10 September
The Simplicity Exercises: a Sourcebook for Simplicity Educators
Preamble by Samuel Alexander: As spring dawns (in Australia), symbolising new life, it brings me great pleasure to announce the…
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Aug- 2012 -8 August
Degrowth, Expensive Oil, and the New Economics of Energy
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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Jul- 2012 -21 July
What is a Transition Town?
The ‘Transition Town’ movement burst onto the scene merely six years ago in Ireland, and yet already there are almost…
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2 July
Resilience Through Simplification: Revisiting Tainter’s Theory of Collapse
Below, Samuel Alexander summarises his new Simplicity Institute Report, which discusses ‘voluntary simplification’ in the context of Joseph Tainter’s theory…
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Jun- 2012 -21 June
What Will Rio+20 Bring?
In a few days the international community will be meeting in Rio de Janeiro, to hold the most significant environmental…
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