The Functional Future
One way to reduce our footprint is with flexible use of space. This video shows a modular approach to the structure itself. Moving to the inside, this MIT video shows a high-tech example that might inspire lower tech approaches as well. Another take on a similar theme. Here’s an article describing the idea of a […]
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A newish trend hitting Seattle is micro-housing, dense developments of small, affordable apartments, built on a small footprint. This news story approaches the issue from a zoning controversy perspective. This article also focuses their story on some controversy but shows a cool picture of the interior and describes it with some detail. In November of
Dissent x Vision x First steps > Resistance
Dissent x Vision x First Steps > Resistance Read More »
Lots of cool information and videos relating wealth, income, and their distribution to health and well-being.
Money: Inequality & Health Read More »
Make your own Berkey-type water filter for $117.
Water: Making and Operating Your Own Berkey-Type Water Filter Read More »
An organic way to get rid of aphids
Under the Microscope: Aphids & How to Get Rid of Them Organically Read More »
Notes on a workshop with the authors of “Rethinking Money”. Cool take-home: 3-D graph specifying sustainability as a function of finding the right balance between efficiency and diversity/resilience.
“…it may be more important to human survival to be in love than to be in a position of power. It may be more important now to enter into an ethical and reciprocal relationship with everything around us than to continue to work toward the sort of control of the physical world that, until recently,
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Upstream or downstream approaches to problems.
“Upstream/Downstream” by Donald Ardell Read More »
The more successful a technique, the more it is guaranteed to produce certain results. But reality can never be known in advance. Creativity is not a matter of just applying know how in order to achieve ends that have been figured out in advance. Indeed, we may say that if you know what to do
“Reality is Always Freshly Born” by Bernard Phillips Read More »