Posted on December 8, 2008 by mjolsen
The Transition Towns movement is much more grounded and practical, but it might be enriched by an insight from Bolo Bolo (a now out-of-print little book describing a kind of anarchist utopia — a world of wildly diverse relocalized communities bound by a cooperative meta-structure that allows for travel, communication, and limited trade among them).
Each [...]
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Posted on November 6, 2008 by mjolsen
Daniel Quinn has done a lot of thinking and a lot of writing and it’s impossible to do justice to the impact of his ideas in a short post (or two or three).
But to make a small beginning — Quinn talks about two kinds of human cultures — Leavers (who are the great majority of [...]
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Posted on June 2, 2008 by mjolsen
Ecotopian fiction was named for Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia (1975) — which describes a utopian society based on ecological principles.
But check out Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland, (1915). Gilman may (or may not) have heard of ecology. Its first text, Oecology of Plants by Denmarkâs Eugenius Warming was published in English in 1909. In any event, a [...]
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