Society
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Change… and Hope
Sometimes change asks more of us than we have to give, and we break. Sometimes (hopefully more often than not, but…
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The Rebellion Hypothesis: Extinction Rebellion and Civil Disobedience
Can civil disobedience ever be justified in a democracy? How does Extinction Rebellion relate to other social movements in history…
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Ecovillage Future: And How Access to Land is a Barrier
What is an Ecovillage and how do practices and values different from ordinary life within consumer capitalist societies? And what…
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Post-Capitalism by Design not Disaster: A Grassroots Theory of Change
Capitalism has various growth imperatives that are inconsistent with environmental limits. That is, capitalism must grow for stability but cannot…
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Life in ‘Degrowth’ Economy: Envisioning a Prosperous Descent
What would daily life be like in a ‘degrowth’ economy? That is, in an economy seeking planned contraction of energy…
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A Real Green New Deal – Policies for a Post-Growth Economy
What would a ‘real’ Green New Deal involve? In this presentation Samuel Alexander argues that it would require policies to…
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An introduction to the life and ideas of Henry David Thoreau, philosopher of sufficiency
This presentation gives an overview of Henry David Thoreau’s philosophy of sufficiency, which he developed and practised during his famous…
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Moving from Control toward Intelligent Interaction, in Gardening and in Life
What gardeners do is somewhere on a continuum from controlling the life (and death) cycles in the garden, to managing…
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Ecological Civilisation – Introduction (Free Course)
Dr Samuel Alexander co-director of the Simplicity Institute brings to us this free online course – “Ecological Civilisation: Beyond Consumerism…
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Difficult Emotions are Allies in Disguise
This started from a gathering of a few recent entries in my personal journal and grew into a post about…
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Get Off the bus
In this article, the “bus” I’m talking about is entire populations of people all gabbling without listening to one another…
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3 Ways to Bring Ourselves Home
Last week, I wrote a post in which I explained what I mean by the term, “empowered thinking.” One of…
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