I am featuring today a great article by Samuel Alexander, author and a research fellow of the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at University of Melbourne and a founder of the Simplicity Institute. You can read this very informative article here: If everyone lived in an ‘ecovillage’, the Earth would still be in trouble. Believe me,... Continue Reading →
Magna Carta: 800 Years of Human Rights
So, tomorrow June 15 2015 marks the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta Libertatum (the Great Charter of the Liberties), the document which forms the basis of law around which democratic rights have been understood since the middle ages. Note: A readable version of this image (6Mb, by zooming) can be found in the Wikipedia... Continue Reading →
Our Choice
I expect that the contents of a previous Facebook post I made today: https://www.facebook.com/bernie.edwards.58173/posts/796016553852058:0 repeated in the quote below, (if anybody actually read it) would have elicited a number of 'shock horrors' from people. It is a mark of the state of the world and our endemic preoccupation with ourselves rather than with what is... Continue Reading →
Not Something Else 