Battlefields of Today: Take 8 Washing Hands Economics
The last take of the battlefields of today, Take 8. A deleted scene from JES! Towards a joint effort society.
Tags: sustainability
The overall convenient action: Joint Effort Society (JES!)
One of the big mistakes of economists is that they claim to be able to organize society while using static models and data from the past. Neo-liberal economics brought the destructive adage of growth...
Only Winners !
Barend van Hoek, pencil on paper, 2012 ‘Allemaal Winnen‘ thesis by Frank van Empel and Martin Bakker comes from failure. Inability to influence the behavior of people, systems, ingrained habits, calcified structures, routine decision-making...
Magnitude & Murder
‘Great cities are not like towns, only larger. They are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are, by definition,...
Beyond a mere mobility thing
Innovative Transport Approach in Cities and metropolitan Areas (ITACA) and E-Mob (Electric Mobility) are two kindred projects performed by European Regions together in order to search for ways to clean up and make safe...
Letter to Sir Richard Branson
Sir Richard, A farmer from Kentucky, Wendell Berry, wrote in Standing by Words (1983) about a system of nested systems – the individual human within the family within the community, et cetera. Berry: ‘If...
Earthbuilding
The building by Thomas Pijnenborgh & friends of two sustainable earth lodges from scratch, autumn 2008. The slideshow on Ecolutie
Enter the future, cowboy!
Some people just don’t get it: sus-tai-na-ble de-ve-lop-ment. ‘Nonsense! No development can go on forever,’ they say. ‘There is a limit to the carrying capacity of the Earth. World population and the economy have...
