Tag: Discussion

What If we Stopped Pretending? Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker,  8 September, 2019 The climate apocalypse is coming. To prepare for it, we need to…

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“If you make more roads, you will have more traffic.” Jan Gehl When I started writing this piece, I expected to be able to limit…

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“Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.” Richard Nixon There doesn’t seem to be any…

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Bureaucratic institutions are an integral aspect of modern society.  The way they work is at the root of the problems today. In a previous piece,…

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In order to transform our cities to deliver individual and societal wellbeing within the context of low-carbon living and resource security, we must take into…

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This piece is about the single most important aspect of our re-imagining, writes Barry Cooper. The future will not be a different kind of “business as usual”….

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I have been asked to start a discussion on: “System change. Challenging established notions. Re-imagining our societies”. I assume that the aim of the discussion is…

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Down here at grassroots, there is misunderstanding about what post-growth is. We need to understand this if we are to prepare ourselves and our local…

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In England, we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years between the perception that something ought to be done and a…

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Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility. E. F. Schumacher What if there will be no economic growth in future? …

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“The lesson for a futurist: history is made of unintended consequences. Whenever you think about a solution to something, deeply examine the possibility that it…

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This adds something to my piece on clusters, which I see as an ingredient of how things will be in a future in which there…

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