I’ve gone through something of a trauma recently. Nothing to get excited over, more of an existential thing, or a re-analysis of my own values and outlook on the world. I have spent so much of the last few years…
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Technology, Autocracy, and Extinction
Tagged with: autocracy, civilization, collpase, ecology, extinction, neo-luddite, refrigeration, refrigerator, sustainability, technology
Posted in Personal, Philosophy
Posted in Personal, Philosophy
Designed For The Unborn
Let it be known that I do not want to sell refrigerators, own patents, market products, or operate anything which could be construed as a business. That being said, a guy has to make a living, so that if I…
Tagged with: appropriate technology, capitalism, collapse, conservation, extinction, living small, minimalism, modular design, overshoot, refrigeration, refrigerator, resource depletion, tiny living
Posted in Personal, Philosophy, Refrigeration, Refrigerator
Posted in Personal, Philosophy, Refrigeration, Refrigerator
Build A Community, As If Your Life Depended On It
These are uncertain times to be sure. The human population is almost 7.3 Billion, and as of this writing, the net population growth on Earth this year is about 602,000; yet it is only January 3rd. I don’t look at…
Tagged with: "tiny house community", extinction, intentional community, minimalism, overpopulation, overshoot
Posted in Dwelling, Personal, Philosophy
Posted in Dwelling, Personal, Philosophy
Growth, Death, and Survival
Homo sapiens may very well be the first species that must learn to live on Earth. It appears as though every other species that came before us, or exists today, has a population limited by available food supply or other…
Tagged with: climate change, climate disruption, conservation, extinction, stewardship
Posted in Organized Entropy Expansion, Personal, Philosophy
Posted in Organized Entropy Expansion, Personal, Philosophy
Acceptance and Adaptation
Human activities of the last 10,000 years have made irreversible changes to the landscape of the Earth, to the waters, the air, and the biodiversity of life. This much is not up for debate; marshes have been drained, forests leveled,…
Tagged with: climate change, climate disruption, conservation, environmentalism, extinction, geoengineering
Posted in Personal, Philosophy
Posted in Personal, Philosophy
Stewards of the Earth
Some folks view technology as a sign of changing times. Of impending unemployment by displacement, ubiquitous colorful screens, a phone thats beeping and buzzing, makes you just want to give it a good chuck sometimes. But, you don’t do you?…
Tagged with: climate disruption, entropy, evolution, extinction, life, stewardship
Posted in Dwelling, Personal, Philosophy, The Squatch
Posted in Dwelling, Personal, Philosophy, The Squatch
Empathy For Corporations. Really
I don’t necessarily blame greedy corporations for their actions. Their corporate charters (by law), require them to produce a profit for their shareholders regardless of the social, economic or environmental consequences. Corporate monopolies and destruction of small business is the…
Tagged with: capitalism, corporation, democracy, economy, empathy, extinction, greed, marxism, socialism, socialization, surplus value, wealth
Posted in Marxism, Personal, Philosophy
Posted in Marxism, Personal, Philosophy
musings on entropy 