Monthly Archives: June 2013

Roger Cohen, New York Times, June 25, 2013 Small spark, large conflagration; disoriented leader, leaderless movement; vertical rigid state power, flat nimble protests; harsh authority, impish youth; force of the state, flexibility of Facebook; police crackdowns, agile regroupings; conspiracy charges, … Continue reading →

by Simon Butler The notion that we can best reduce pollution by extending private property rights to pollution – had a fatal flaw at its core. Prices can never reflect true ecological values because those values simply cannot be expressed … Continue reading →

On June 10-12, Ecuador’s National Institute of Advanced Studies (IAEN, Spanish acronym) held an international symposium on Crisis of civilization, ecosocialism and ‘buen vivir’ . (“Buen Vivir” is usually translated as “living well,” but its meaning is closer to “living … Continue reading →

by Ahmad Sufiyan Bayram For those not familiar with sharing and collaborative consumption movements in the Arab World, these are not new ideas in the region, nor within Arabic culture. Throughout history, people have shared food, products and homes among … Continue reading →

Depictions of the alternative energy technologies of the future suggest salvation is at hand — but most of the politics and material realities associated with them are invariably missing. To support uncritically any and all initiatives that describe themselves as … Continue reading →

New York Times – Ian Johnson June 15, 2013 BEIJING — China is pushing ahead with a sweeping plan to move 250 million rural residents into newly constructed towns and cities over the next dozen years — a transformative event … Continue reading →

How one crab discovered he/she didn’t always have to go only in straight lines. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdLehwjV4pc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Ethan Goffman This is the first in a series of mini-blog posts from the Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative’s (SCORAI) conference, “The Future of Consumerism and Well-Being in a World of Ecological Constraints.” June 13-14 2013 Clark University, Worcester, … Continue reading →

10 Jun 2013 The Voluntary Simplicity Collective of Australia has announced the publication of Samuel Alexander’s new book, Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilization. The book is a creative work of fiction – a ‘utopia of sufficiency’ – in which he … Continue reading →

Nick Fillmore, 21 May 2013 This appeal is written particularly for the attention of environmental groups and activists throughout Canada and the U.S., suggesting they set up a co-operative system to bring a halt to the huge amount of disinformation … Continue reading →