Lack and the Cultivation of Better
In agriculture, we hear of the fight against natural constraints, for the higher yields necessary to feed the world. In economics in general, talk is of the struggle to gain the highest profits with...
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Solution: ON ?
Technology – of the high-tech, high-convenience, high-consumption kind – seems to have taken on the role of savior.. “There’s an app for that,” seemingly whether you want to lose weight or live better,...
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Voting with Dollars? Systems Thinking for Change
“Every time you spend money, you cast a vote for the kind of world you want.” “Three times a day, you cast a vote.” These admonishments have become ever more popular, and they are good reminders of the...
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Lessons from Emergency Entrepreneurship
Living Rich in ‘Poor’ Times As concluded in the first part, expectations are increasingly blinding us. We talk of modernity’s empowerment of the individual, but it is an individualism that is very much...
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Aspirations and Better Ways
Living a middle class lifestyle, would you just want to give it up? Living in poverty, wouldn’t you be enticed by the images you see of better lives? This, of course, is the great problem that a...
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Emergency, and Luxury
Subsistence agriculture, foraged foods, traditional diets. Mechanical looms, plant and animal fibers, the bespoke and handmade. Bartering, collecting, crafting. They all seem somewhat backwards...
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Fun and Games,… but, There Is No App for a Better Life
Games are fun. The rise of computer and online gaming to the level of new cultural productions seemingly rivaling earlier great works of art, the rise of the quantified self movement and its playful...
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Higher Purpose, at a Cellular Level
In most manuals for personal growth and happiness, the focus is on pleasure. Learning and growing as it’s fun for you; reducing your workweek, when you do things you don’t really like to do but do for...
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Life-Tracking Lessons for Better
It is at once one of the most commonsense and one of the most challenging observations: all too often, there is a wide disconnect between our awareness of problems, our knowledge of answers, even our...
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Appropriate Living In The Anthropocene
It’s a new day and age, long in the coming: Our impacts have reached levels where it makes sense to speak of a new geologic epoch characterized by those our impacts, an ‘anthropocene.’ Our thinking –...
View ArticleThe Power to ‘Control’ Your Life
Even as we have gained greater freedom, we are feeling increasingly powerless. No longer does birth absolutely determine the course of one’s life; a farmer’s child isn’t necessarily going to be a...
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The Revolution Will Not Be Thought
Once again, thanks to Russell Brand this time, a revolution is what’s being talked about. Once again, one person gets the spotlight and supporters flock to his words (and detractors to disagree). Once...
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The Trap of The Obvious and Easy
The brain is a miraculous thing. A mass of neurons interacting in such a way as to not just regulate the rest of the body, but also make it react appropriately to stimuli, to exhibit a fascinating...
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Re-Rooting Success and Greatness
It’s only natural that we’d want to “get made, get laid, or get paid” – acquire social status, sate sexual desires, have enough and make more. How exactly those things play out, however, can take very...
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Depressive Economics…
The one idea for the future that still keeps getting pushed is that economic growth is the only measure we need to look at. Get the economy growing, there’s more money going around, everyone gets...
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One Life. A Little Inspiration.
For the approaching end of the year, a good time to reflect and decide how to go on, and go on better and to better – on which theme, especially with the look at Depressive Economics in the background,...
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Home Ecologics
With tough times and good intentions comes a return of home making… We have gotten to more difficult situations, thanks to the very economic growth that is supposed to be good – but increasingly, only...
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Intentional Living: Crafting a Better Life
Between voluntary simplicity or even intentional poverty and nomadically independent “designed” or jet-setting luxury lifestyles, there seems to be a vast space of ordinary lives with little room for...
View ArticleFiction and the Future(s)
One of those special traits of our species – of us – is that we are a story-telling bunch. We don’t just exist and communicate, we also tell stories of...
View ArticleReturning Forward
Get into “environmental(ist)” vs. economic debates enough, there’s always the point where the “greens” want to stop and re-consider, the “techno-optimists” want to forge headlong into the future. It’s...
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