Life among the Amish or the “Minimites” can help us all figure out when technology has gone too far
Can businesses be too small to fail?
“Localwash” may be the new greenwash, but still there’s an important trend backing local goods
Read: “Zeitoun” by Dave Eggers
A concrete example of how no disaster is really a natural disaster
Intentional Communities
“‘Intentional Community’ is an inclusive term for ecovillages, cohousing communities, residential land trusts, communes, student co-ops, urban housing cooperatives, intentional living, alternative communities, cooperative living, and other projects where people strive together with a common vision,” says the site for the Fellowship of Intentional Communities. “This web site serves the growing communities’ movement, providing resources [...]
Post Carbon Institute
covers the “interrelated economic, energy, and environmental crises that define the 21st century”
We must turn “our energies toward building sustainable communities to weather the coming crisis, since we will be unable to survive and resist without a cooperative effort.”
—Chris Hedges, in Adbusters
Transition Culture
Rob Hopkins’ site about resilient communities and “energy descent”
Radical Relocalization
site by Andrew MacDonald in Canada
