Long time P2P Foundation Colleague Kevin Carson from The Center for a Stateless Society has just published his latest book: The Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low-Overhead Manifesto on Amazon. The book details the historical rise and fall of Sloanist...
“A thief who tells a judge he is stealing less than before will receive no leniency. So why do companies get environmental awards for polluting less – even though they are still polluting?”. Gunther Pauli is scornful in his new book...
Crossposted from Border Jumpers, Danielle Nierenberg and Bernard Pollack. The majority of farmers in sub-Saharan Africa— in some areas up to 80 percent— are women. The average female farmer in the region is responsible not only for growing food...
Plastics in the World of Tomorrow – Plastics in the World of Today. I grew up in Leominster, the alleged ‘birthplace’ of plastics. My father started one of the first recycling businesses there from nothing and made a killing during the...
“Bicycle” is now an option for mode of transport in Google maps. Ostensibly, the directions given will help you avoid particularly nasty car traffic and particularly disheartening elevation changes. It also shows dedicated bike...
Volunteers in Afghanistan — both locals and foreigners from the MIT Bits and Atoms lab — have been building out a wireless network made largely from locally scrounged junk. They call it “FabFi” and it’s kicking...
Aside from being named after my ‘late’ parrot, I think the Peepoo Bag is a great idea. Anders Wilhelmson, a Swedish architect, professor, and entrepreneur, has developed this thing called the Peepoo bag. It’s a single-use toilet for...
My last post stirirred some conversation among my friends (especially after Sky & Chesters wedding)… Compassion? What is compassion? Is compassion forgiveness? Is it charity? Is it tolerance? Is it kindness? Is it simplicity of living...
This video: 1. dramatizes basic chemistry as interludes at a dance party 2. is crazy 3. was produced for the European Union’s YouTube channel! To all these things I say: YES. // Read More →
The Beauty of Guilloches Speaking of Math: Click the image for more. // Read More →
