Seed of the idea came to me when I was teaching part of the Permaculture course at Cloughjordan yesterday. Made a couple of tweets. Right, who wants to help me figure out a Collapse Course where I take all this stuff and teach it? When? Where? Who? Need perspective. “Living in a changing world” type [...]
Read more →I had a hard Dark Mountain. Not an unenjoyable one, but for me it was more about failure than success, which may be an interesting precedent. I don’t fail easily, but there is a time and place for everything. I was doing The Sacred bit, at least part of it, in dialogue with Dougald. There [...]
Read more →As the new world that we’re in, post US sovereign default crisis, Norwegian shootings and London riots settles in, I’m feeling a strong pull to wind up more parts of my life. For the time being, I’m substantially done with politics. I’ve made all the arguments I need to. I’m not saying that I won’t [...]
Read more →((The Gupta State Failure Management Archive, 4.3gb of lectures and documents on managing state failure, is in the Public Domain and available for download.)) The London Situation: Threat Modeling I was asked today to think about gear lists for the London situation, and about framing the risks of being in London period. I’m not sure [...]
Read more →I’ve just released 4.3gb of files on State Failure and contingency management into the public domain at Archive.org. You can browse, watch and download individual files there. There is the start of a collaborative “reader’s guide” on Appropedia. You can also download the entire set as a TAR file from Archive.org or try bit Bittorrent [...]
Read more →((from a post made to the Reddit PostCollapse forum – just kind of a braindump to help some folks out who were just starting to grapple with these problems. Survival Epistemologist!)) ((The Gupta State Failure Management Archive, 4.3gb of lectures and documents on managing state failure, is in the Public Domain and available for download.)) [...]
Read more →It’s come time for me to “declare victory” on two projects. 1) The Institute for Collapsonomics got going on this blog well over two years ago, in March 2009. The US has just narrowly avoided a sovereign default at which point there is no further need to argue about whether economic risks to the global [...]
Read more →Umair Haque would like a taste of power. My suggestion is: let’s leave those stuck in a predictable, homogeneous, stagnating, we’d-believe-you-more-if-you-were-an-old-white-dude past in the past. Let’s smash through the iron curtains of the status quo–by creating the future. {source: Sidenotes: Smashing The Status Quo’s Iron Curtains} The reason the Old White Dudes (OWD) are in [...]
Read more →We just built a Hexayurt H13 at the Cloughjordan Ecovillage. The H13 was designed by Scott Davis and Dylan Toymaker. The H13 adds one panel to the “classic” H12 hexayurt, but that one extra sheet of plywood gets an 8′ roof line and three times the walkable space inside the hexayurt. It’s a really beautiful [...]
Read more →Nick Stewart invited me to the Winchester School of Art to do a talk on The Future We Deserve, and to do a panel discussion with him afterwards. I think you’ll agree we had a fascinating time. I’m very pleased with this video because at last there’s a coherent explanation of the models behind The [...]
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