Until I was 31 all I really did was study meditation and write enough software to half-pay the bills. I wasn’t aiming to be a guru or a teacher, but it was generally expected that when I matured I would teach. Then 9/11 happened and put an end to all that. The lineage of teachers [...]
Read more →These are the cores of the pieces I’m writing for The Future We Deserve. The five thorns Climate Technological risk including small group destructive power and monsanto Poverty Political violence including genocide and economic violence The big one: governance The four seeds Population stops growing as infant mortality drops Cheap solar panels, wind energy and [...]
Read more →“I’ve seen things you wouldn’t believe: Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion; I’ve watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate.” In 2002 I discovered the hexayurt, a simple geometry that was to change my life. In 2003, I opened the door on the first hexayurt and stuck my face [...]
Read more →I’ll be at the ICA bar from 4PM on Saturday afternoon drinking coffee and catching up on email. If you’d like to join me for a catch up and stories of Ireland’s ghost estates, wood chip gassifiers and adventures in cultural misunderstanding, meet me there.
Read more →Kairos (καιρός) is an ancient Greek word meaning the right or opportune moment (the supreme moment). The ancient Greeks had two words for time, chronos and kairos. While the former refers to chronological or sequential time, the latter signifies a time in between, a moment of undetermined period of time in which something special happens. [...]
Read more →(Slide 66 at that slide show) Does anybody know who built all of these? I hear there were some hundreds of units on the playa – several large theme camps with a dozen or half a dozen units, plus many, many groups with hexayurts. A good year! Haiti and Pakistan next?
Read more →We will be doing a Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps workshop in Dublin on the afternoon of Monday the 27th. There are about five places free for the workshop, which will be covering the practical applications of SCIM as a planning tool for a wide variety of circumstances. The workshop will be of particular interest to [...]
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Read more →Hi everybody, I’m going to be doing a dry run of the Through the Looking Glass talk on societal fragility, peak oil and responses to these risks in London on Thursday at 6PM at the School of Everything offices in 18A Victoria Park Square London E29PF, 2 minutes from the Bethnal Green tube. The talk [...]
Read more →Here’s the trailer for my talks in Ireland. Here’s a first draft of my slides for the Through the Looking Glass talks I’ll be doing in Ireland from September 26th to September 28th of 2010. Please let me know what you think of them! Thanks to ASPO Ireland, FEASTA (Foundation for the Economics of Stability), [...]
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