Futurism

Deep in the basement of a dusty university library in Edinburgh lies a small black box, roughly the size of two cigarette packets side by side, that churns out random numbers in an endless...

The Uplift Festival actually has been really amazing. The energy generated IS valuable and IS a ripple that will roll on out. On the beach yesterday morning perhaps 500 people saw in the 'new world' too with our indigenous elders from many cultures,...

We all know that our lives, how we relate to our world, to each other has change dramatically with technology, especially with the advent of the smart phone and social media. How is this impacting on the wiring of our brain, that will be passed down...

Mark O’Brien reflects upon the trend towards poor behaviour in our daily life and our public discourse and asks where is the virtual world taking...

The bad news about the future, according to the book, published in 1999, is that without a healthy earth we aren’t going to have a healthy economy or a healthy society. The good news is that we can have all three by making some logical...

Following is a list of various eco and enviro articles of interest selected from various websites. Please email your favourite eco- or enviro-tech articles and they will be added to this...

The circumstances of the Long Emergency will require us to downscale and re-scale virtually everything we do and how we do it, from the kind of communities we physically inhabit to the way we grow our food to the way we work and trade the products...

The Great Turning is the third revolution, the transition from the industrial revolution to a life sustaining society. The first was the agricultural revolution developing over centuries. Then within a few short decades came the second change, the...

An essay by psychologist Ralph Metzner Ph.D. on his book, Green Psychology, where he links the way we think with the way we live in the world. Increasing numbers of people have therefore come to the conclusion that it is in the hearts and minds of...

As we explore ways to generate more effective groups, organisations, institutions, and other human systems, it may help to begin by taking a closer look at collective...