Jean Lievens: Paracity High Tech Slums as Solution

PARACITY “To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.” – Samuel Beckett Paracity is a biourban organism that is growing on the principles of Open Form: individual design-build actions generating spontaneous communicative reactions on the surrounding built human environment and this organic constructivist dialog leading into self-organized community structures, development and …

Owl: Malaysian Airlines Flight Hijacked via AWACS? Chinese Engineers Renditioned? Update 4 Diego Garcia Redux, Boeing Cyber Hijack

UPDATE 16 Mar 14: Was Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Redirected to Diego Garcia? and also Is missing Malaysian jet the world’s first CYBER HIJACK? Chilling new theory claims hackers could use a mobile phone to take over the controls UPDATE 15 Mar 14: Malaysia Airline MH370: 9/11-style terror allegations resurface in case of lost plane …

Transition Network Game Plan: 12 Ingredients

The twelve key ingredients to the Transition model To begin with, it is important to note that although the term “Transition Town” has stuck, what we are talking about are Transition Cities, Transition Islands, Transition Hamlets, Transition Valleys, Transition Anywhere-You-Find-People. These ingredients are not designed to be followed slavishly – like a good recipe in …

Transition Network Concept Paper: Region-Wide Resilience in New England

Reflections for Consideration This short paper offers some “grist for the mill” as we consider together what regional resilience could mean for New England. Download this document as a PDF. New England has a long tradition of radical communitarian culture. The colonists came here as congregations or communities rather than as individuals. Communities banded together …

Review (Guest): How Much Have Global Problems Cost the World? A Scorecard From 1900 to 2050

Bjorn Lomberg et al 2.0 out of 5 stars It just gets better and better!, November 15, 2013 By David Wineberg “David Wineberg” (New York, NY USA) – See all my reviews  (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) Milton Berle once appeared for an interview on a morning TV show in New York. After, his interviewer threw to …