October 21, 2009 – 7:46 pm
I just found this book again in a used bookshop and, in case you did not read into it, yet, I recommend it highly…What also struck me was that it was first published in 1975. – My deepest respect to Fritjof Capra (http://www.fritjofcapra.net/). This is from Chapter 2 Knowing and Seeing: …The natural world, on [...]
I already posted something on him, but I thought you might just enjoy a talk… [googlevideo]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8649250863235826256[/googlevideo]
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Do you believe that this culture is going to undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of living? What if you live in the most destructive culture ever to exist? What if that culture refuses to change? What do you do about it? ‘When he was on trial for his life in [...]
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With Soil Not Oil, Vandana Shiva connects the dots between industrial agriculture and climate change. Shiva shows that a world beyond dependence on fossil fuels and globalization is both possible and necessary. read an excerpt!
February 10, 2009 – 4:47 pm
Like Gulliver, we return from Lilliput and Brodbingnag only to find hat some of the srangest goings-on are happening at the human scale. There is a case to be made that, for all their unanswered questions, it is the very large and the very small that are the best understood in science. The middle of [...]
January 23, 2009 – 9:51 pm
So heisst das letzte Buch von Prof Dr. Michael Braungart und William McDonough. Wir waren Ende letzten Jahres auf der Utopia Konferenz in Berlin und der Vortrag von Herrn Braungart war das Highlight für uns…Scharfsinnig und herausfordernd und mit alamierenden Informationen. – und dabei sogar sehr unterhaltsam. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZyGKpE7r38[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfKVX1fgncc[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo87MMJc6Fg[/youtube]
October 18, 2008 – 12:55 pm
Der zweitausendeins Verlag hat das Transition Towns Handbuch von Rob Hopkins übersetzt. ‘Energiewende. Das Handbuch‘ Kurz: Das Buch ist super! Leider geht das deutsche Nachwort nicht sehr in die Tiefe und die Möglichkeit einer weiterführenden deutsche Linkliste hätte auch besser genutzt werden können, finde ich. Trotzdem: Jetzt könnte es also losgehen. Ich bin gespannt. In [...]
September 22, 2008 – 1:37 pm
Powerful extremes. Creativity, activism, visions, grassroots movements, you name it…. all happening in the States. Necessity provoked by the current political and economic system. You would think: welcome to any crisis this system will get into, gives opportunity for radical new thinking to emerge. But not only. In her book THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, Naomi Klein [...]