Monthly Archives: March 2012

How Many Circles Does it Take to Make a Community?

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Dave Pollard

Last evening I spent a couple of hours with three of my Bowen In Transition colleagues — Don Marshall, Rob Cairns and Robert Ballantyne — discussing what, if anything, we might do to start preparing our community (Bowen Island, off … Continue reading →

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Links of the Month: March 21, 2012

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Dave Pollard

kereru (native species), painting by NZ artist Robyn Forbes, from my own collection Vera over at Leaving Babylon has written an interesting series of articles on the hazards of planning and on permaculture design. She’s also very good at responding … Continue reading →

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Preparing for the Unimaginable

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Dave Pollard

image from FlaSunshine on Flickriver One of the lessons of Nassim Taleb’s The Black Swan is that the events that have caused the greatest changes (and collectively most of the substantive change) to our civilization and our way of life … Continue reading →

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Song of the Satyrs

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Dave Pollard

The word ‘tragedy’ has a wonderful etymology. It literally means ‘song of the satyrs’ (the first ‘tragedies’ were ‘satyres’ of the human condition in which the players dressed in goatskins). Although it has come to mean a play with an … Continue reading →

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