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The term Gross Domestic Product is often talked about as if it were “handed down from god on tablets of stone.” But this concept was invented by an economist in the 1930s. We need a more effective measurement tool to match 21st century needs, says Michael Green: the Social Progress Index. With charm and wit, he shows how this tool measures societies across the three dimensions that actually matter. And reveals the dramatic reordering of nations that occurs when you use it.
In a series of witty punchlines, Patrick Chappatte makes a poignant case for the power of the humble cartoon. His projects in Lebanon, West Africa and Gaza show how, in the right hands, the pencil can illuminate serious issues and bring the most unlikely people together.
How to not fuel hate but togetherness.
Imagine the hottest day you've ever experienced. Now imagine it's six, 10 or 12 degrees hotter. According to climate researcher Alice Bows-Larkin, that's the type of future in store for us if we don't significantly cut our greenhouse gas emissions now. She suggests that it's time we do things differently—a whole system change, in fact—and seriously consider trading economic growth for climate stability.
it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.
Fredric Jameson,
Finance is a means by which capital develops an imagination of the future. As a volatile churning mass of speculative investments, finance aggregates and interlaces millions upon millions of individual acts of prescience into something almost akin to
Crisis of Imagination
Many anti-utilitarians call for a "political" critique of boundlessness and excess, uprooting the discourse from an ethical level. Rather, they advocate a political project that metabolizes the principles of "reversibility" (i.e. against the externalities of progress that threaten collective existence) and of reciprocity (i.e. against the power of most developed societies which limits and threatens the chances for life and action of less developed societies and future generations).
Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era Onofrio Romano pg. 24
Ecological Footprint
My ecological footprint. Even in my, what I’d like to think is fairly modest lifestyle we’d still need 1.8 earths?????Â
Things I did badly this year... I flew... a lot. I perhaps bought too many things, I don’t eat meat but I could buy less animal products. I could be vegan. But I like being able to share things with my friends. I like waking up with my boyfriend and eating eggs. They’re healthy and they taste good. They’re in so many of our products... next step... guide to becoming vegan?
yeash. OR do I ricochet? Ricochet for, the sake of friends, sake of love (dramatic I know) ricochet for experiences (like traveling to see my dad, to go to degrowth school, to participate with Swallow A Bicycle in Calgary). Hard choices. I guess I didn’t realize how much I had to change.Â
Flying vs Driving
The simple answer is that driving in a relatively fuel-efficient car (25-30 miles per gallon) usually generates fewer greenhouse-gas emissions than flying. In assessing the global warming impact of a trip from Philadelphia to Boston (about 300 miles), the environmental news website Grist.org calculates that driving would generate about 104 kilograms of carbon dioxide (CO2)—a leading greenhouse gas—per typical medium-sized car, regardless of the number of passengers, while flying on a commercial jet would produce some 184 kilograms of CO2 per passenger.
gain perspective on who we are and what we have done
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94kBhk55pQk
The machine is stuttering and the engineers are in panic. They are wondering if perhaps they do not understand it as well as they imagined. They are wondering whether they are controlling it at all or whether, perhaps, it is controlling them.
- From Uncivilisation: the Dark Mountain Manifesto
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilisation."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
THEATRE FOR LIVING has evolved from Augusto Boal's "Theatre of the Oppressed" and David Diamond's interest in and commitment to a 'systems view' of the world. If we embrace the idea that a community is a living organism, how do we work with that larger consciousness, using a primal language (the theatre) to help it tell its stories? How do we do this without polarizing the living community into 'us' and 'them'? Once the story is acted on the stage, the living community engages in interactive, Forum Theatre - a creative, community-based dialogue. THEATRE FOR LIVING is about empowerment - about people being the experts in their own lives and being able to use theatre to make change. The process gives a community the opportunity to develop 'emotional intelligence' - using a symbolic language to investigate alternative approaches to hard-to-talk-about issues. This is a first step towards dealing with difficult topics - moving towards open communication and realities that living communities want in an active and entertaining way.
http://www.headlinestheatre.com/theatre_for_living.htm
David Diamond: Social change
The theater as one of the oldest languages of mankind invites us to work together to make time stand still for a moment to pause and reflect: What is really important in the face of various crises of our time? How and where do we go from here? What are our next steps? The participatory theater project time prosperity is dedicated to all these issues with various project elements:
http://www.transitiontheater.net/zeitwohlstand/