Do you remember the Permian? No, it is not some mid 20th century hairstyling system. No, of course you don't remember. You weren't around on this planet some 250 million years ago, so how could you. Or perhaps you and I were a part of that scene if my reading of Rosicrucian and other cosmological... Continue Reading →
My Take on Degrowth: TINA (There Is No Alternative)
I am very happy to be known as someone who considers that human society will never again, following the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, be capable of achieving, regaining, or even restarting the kind of economic growth that has been the signature feature of national and world endeavour for the previous one and a half centuries... Continue Reading →
The Fight of Our Time
There is one question which people alive today should be asking themselves. Do you want the world to stay at least a little bit like the one you were born into? If the answer is yes, but you don't know what to do about it, then watch this video: Personally, I don't think enough people... Continue Reading →
A Brief Flare of Anger
I got outside to do some land clearing today even though it was quite cold and windy. Cold, you can dress for but wind is quite unhealthy to be exposed to. I didn't stay outside for long. Just long enough to fill one wheel barrow full of unwanted grass and weed clippings for the compost... Continue Reading →
Question Everything
My mind is always full of questions. So when I came upon a link on Cassandra's Legacy to another blog named named 'Question Everything' I had to investigate further. It turns out that this is the blogspot of George Mobus, an academic at the University of Washington. He seems to think the same way that I... Continue Reading →
Co-operation not Confrontation
The idea for this post was originally to be about land rights, worked around the recent Diggers 2012 issue as blogged by George Monbiot in The Promised Land, but I got to thinking about co-operation not confrontation, although I am sure there will be more of the latter in the arena of land rights battles. This... Continue Reading →
Not Something Else 