Monthly Archives: October 2013

“Asahi Symposium Science and Man – The computer-managed Society,” Tokyo, Japan, March 21, 1982 Computers are doing to communication what fences did to pastures and cars did to streets. Illich addresses the distinction between the commons within which people’s subsistence … Continue reading →

Is our relentless quest for economic growth killing the planet? Climate scientists have seen the data – and they are coming to some incendiary conclusions. http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/10/science-says-revolt

By John Restakis, 17 Oct 2013, TheTyee.ca News about the Greek crisis gave me a sense of foreboding about the upcoming trip to visit my family in Athens. The memories of the street riots from a few years before and … Continue reading →

Cutting the hours we work each week to 30 instead of 40 would improve our wellbeing, our family life, friendships and communities, they say. Combined with a range of new career breaks, it could also lower carbon emissions, it was … Continue reading →

James Gustave Speth, 30 September 2013, Huffington Post Not much in our society is more faithfully followed than economic growth. Its movements are constantly monitored, measured to the decimal place, deplored or praised, diagnosed as weak or judged healthy and … Continue reading →

Much, even most, of our economic activities – from eating doughnuts to building car-dominated cities – lie on a continuum between useless and destructive. Therein lies an opportunity. Not only would we be happier and healthier if we gave up … Continue reading →

by Jen Hinton and Donnie Maclurcan, 15 October 2013 The ‘Great Recession’ of the last few years has been fertile soil for the emergence of new economic initiatives. People worldwide have grown weary of the inequalities in our modern societies … Continue reading →

The following are the main points (and their significance) of the report of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The author, Meena Raman, followed the discussions in Stockholm as an observer http://1804caribvoices.org/articles/2013/10/stark-warning-on-climate-change/ Meena Raman is legal advisor of the … Continue reading →

By Stephen Leahy UXBRIDGE, Canada, Oct 10 2013 (IPS) – A climate plague affecting every living thing will likely start in 2020 in southern Indonesia, scientists warned Wednesday in the journal Nature. A few years later the plague will have … Continue reading →

‘We wonder if we as a continent really understand what has hit us’ – Sarah Lazare, staff writer Austerity policies are bringing poverty, despair, and wretchedness to Europe, spelling out a dismal future of deepening unemployment, inequality, and desperation for … Continue reading →