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2014/03/142014/03/14

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 …

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2014/03/122014/03/12

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 …

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2014/03/092014/03/09

Berto Jongman: Florida Makes It Illegal to Live Sustainably

As you would say, “we do not make this up.” Florida Makes Off-Grid Living Illegal – Mandates All Homes Must Be Connected To An Electricity Grid It’s no secret that an opposition to sustainable living exists. Earlier this year, Texas state brought several SWAT teams to a sustainable community and threatened to shut it down. …

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2014/03/012014/03/01

Answers: Robert Steele to Ramin D on Education & Elites in Context of Revolution

Dear Mr. Steele, I’ve read your thesis, which presents a cogent framework to estimate the likelihood for the breakout of a revolution, with great interest. I have some questions, which I respectfully ask you to answer either via Email or a future post on your website, Phi Beta Iota.

2014/02/192014/02/19

BUCKY 2.0: Cosmic Quotes

Following are some poignant quotes that might be considered a backdrop for our Cosmically Adequate (CA) consideration/pursuit/exploration: R. Buckminster Fuller 45 quotes Daniel Quinn 37 quotes Alex Gerber 22 quotes Mary Baker Eddy 20 quotes David Brower 14 quotes Jean Liedloff 10 quotes Robert Fritz 6 quotes Alan Weisman 5 quotes Pete Carroll 4 quotes …

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2014/02/122014/02/12

Ecuador Initiative: Commons-Oriented Productive Capacities

ECUADOR INITIATIVE: Transition Proposals Toward a Commons-Oriented Economy and Society Sponsored by the National Institute of Advanced Studies of Ecuador, carried out by the Free/Libre Open Knowledge (FLOK) Society. Commons-oriented Productive Capacities 1 Executive summary 2 Introduction and focus: basic principles 2.1 The concept and forms of the knowledge economy 3 A critique of cognitive …

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2014/02/082014/02/08

David Swanson: War Can Be Ended — And No, the US Civil War Was Not About Slavery and Not Worth the Human and Other Enduring True Costs

War Can Be Ended Part I Of BOOK: War No More: The Case For Abolition Slavery Was Abolished In the late eighteenth century the majority of people alive on earth were held in slavery or serfdom (three-quarters of the earth’s population, in fact, according to the Encyclopedia of Human Rights from Oxford University Press). The …

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