While transforming food and agriculture to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is becoming increasingly urgent, ‘smart farming’ appears to many as an attractive way to achieve sustainability, not least in terms of profit.
Organising for the Right to Housing in London
According to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, a lack of social rented homes and falling home-ownership has forced more low-income families with children into the private rented sector
According to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, a lack of social rented homes and falling home-ownership has forced more low-income families with children into the private rented sector
Mutating the Future: the Anticipatory Experimentation Method
Today we need to solve the problems of the future — we need anticipatory action.
Today we need to solve the problems of the future — we need anticipatory action.
Why ‘Game of Thrones’ Was About Ecomodernism
Game of Thrones was arguably about climate change, but the HBO series turned this narrative around by presenting a last-minute technological solution as magically saving the day, the planet, and existence.
Game of Thrones was arguably about climate change, but the HBO series turned this narrative around by presenting a last-minute technological solution as magically saving the day, the planet, and existence.
A Brief History of Systems Science, Chaos and Complexity
Since the beginning in the 1950s, when people like Ludwig von Bertalanffy and Kenneth Boulding developed the field of ‘General Systems Theory’ and Norbert Wiener, Gregory Bateson and others developed the field of ‘Cybernetics’, and Jay Forrester developed ‘systems dynamics’ there have been many attempts to break free from the reductionist paradigm and develop a more holistic and systemic understanding of the complexity of the world we live in.
Since the beginning in the 1950s, when people like Ludwig von Bertalanffy and Kenneth Boulding developed the field of ‘General Systems Theory’ and Norbert Wiener, Gregory Bateson and others developed the field of ‘Cybernetics’, and Jay Forrester developed ‘systems dynamics’ there have been many attempts to break free from the reductionist paradigm and develop a more holistic and systemic understanding of the complexity of the world we live in.
Futures of Production Through Cosmo-Local and Commons-Based Design
— Workshop: Leapfrogging Sustainable Development: Exploring the strategic futures of production and policy through cosmo-local and commons-based design. By Jose Ramos, 20-21 Sept 2019 ; Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai Description A new way of thinking is emerging for developing strategic pathways for local to planetary economic and ecological viability. This way of thinking…
Ecological Collapse: What Will You Tell Your Grandchildren?
What we really need right now is deep transformation. There is still time to act: we must acknowledge this moral imperative.
What we really need right now is Deep Transformation. There is still time to act: we must acknowledge this moral imperative.
People-Powered Finance to the Rescue?
How we can wrestle back our apps from the tech giants and end surveillance capitalism.
How we can wrestle back our apps from the tech giants and end surveillance capitalism.
Ecofeminism to Escape Collapse
It is increasingly evident that we need a society in which economic growth and capital gains cease to be the main –and almost the sole– objective of economic policy (and of society itself).
It is increasingly evident that we need a society in which economic growth and capital gains cease to be the main –and almost the sole– objective of economic policy (and of society itself).
How To Thrive in the Next Economy: Preface to the Chinese Edition
The rift between the living world, and the economic one – leaves us starved of meaning and purpose. We have to heal this damaging gap.
The rift between the living world, and the economic one – leaves us starved of meaning and purpose. We have to heal this damaging gap.