A Prosperous Way Down

The speech Obama needed to make

Tiny Energies — Sat, 11 May 2013 18:35:04 +0000

By Mary Logan I’ve stayed away from politics pointedly in posts, because voting for either party is still just voting for growth, with different labels applied. I do not believe that the current corporate giveaway that we call a political … Continue reading →

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What would you do if your money became worthless?

Tiny Energies — Sat, 04 May 2013 18:54:17 +0000

by Mary Logan I am working on a policy post, but it is still cooking. So I will instead post a link to the best description of hyperinflation in Weimar Germany that I have ever read, that was written in … Continue reading →

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The overgrowth of control circuits and the rise of autism

Tiny Energies — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 15:50:34 +0000

by Brian @ http://theemergist.wordpress.com This is a repost from TheEmergist on April 21, 2013. Brian runs the twice-monthly blog The Emergist. He is a stay-at-home dad of two young children and one very young six-acre forest garden. He became enthralled with HT Odum’s … Continue reading →

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Principles for the Pulse that is Peak Oil « integral permaculture

Tiny Energies — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:08:09 +0000

From David M. at Integral Permaculture; “Howard Odum was of the opinion that all systems on all scales pulse. Storages gradually accumulate, consumers consume and develop, and eventually decline, and then dispersing materials that will be used in the next … Continue reading →

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Social justice and solar equity

Tiny Energies — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 16:00:49 +0000

By Mary Logan “El socialismo puede llegar solo en bicicleta” (Socialism will only arrive by bike) —José Antonio Viera-Gallo, Assistant Secretary of Justice in the government of Salvador Allende (from Illich, Energy & Equity, 1973) What is the relationship between social … Continue reading →

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What did you do in the empire, grandmother?

Tiny Energies — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 21:35:21 +0000

por la abuela The empire was an amazing time to be alive, dearie. I was what they call a professor. That meant that when I got up in the morning, I would take a hot shower, drink coffee that had … Continue reading →

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Emergy Accounting Summer School

Tiny Energies — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 13:13:22 +0000

International School on Emergy Accounting, Venice Italy, 17-21 June 2013 The International School on Emergy Accounting is organized by the Department of Molecular Sciences and Nanosystems together with the Department of Economics of Ca’ Foscari University, and in collaboration with … Continue reading →

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Adding and removing complexity

Tiny Energies — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 16:54:44 +0000

By Mary Logan An article on the difficulty of building truly green buildings and recent discussions about the healthcare system triggered thoughts about a major transition problem that is occurring over and over again—the problem of a complex hierarchy that … Continue reading →

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What might a smart paradigm include?

Tiny Energies — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 16:00:36 +0000

by Paula Williams Dr. Williams wrote her dissertation on “The role of social paradigm in human perception and response to environmental change.“ She is the director of UAA’s Office of Sustainability. Her previous post on this topic appears here: http://prosperouswaydown.com/williams-not-economy-paradigm/. If not a stupid … Continue reading →

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Making change sexy

Tiny Energies — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 16:00:35 +0000

If kids grow kale, kids eat kale. If they grow tomatoes, they eat tomatoes. But when none of this is presented to them, if they’re not shown how food affects the mind and the body, they blindly eat whatever you … Continue reading →

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