How the Late Bronze Age’s Eastern Mediterranean still resonates by Nicolás Boullosa on October 12, 2023 When it comes to cyclical, apparently impossible-to-solve conflicts in the world, the Middle East (also the Near East) never disappoints …
Big & homogeneous isn’t better: on decentralized food systems by Nicolás Boullosa on September 28, 2023 In his book When More is Not Better, Canadian management professor Roger Martin explains the consequences of decades of efficiency …
In a year of extreme weather events, past cataclysms help learn by Nicolás Boullosa on August 30, 2023 The Perito Moreno Glacier dam rupture is a recurrent partial collapse over the Brazo Rico and Brazo Sur branches of …
Energy co-ops produce own power, beat geopolitics/inflation by Nicolás Boullosa on December 21, 2022 The quest for cleaner, cheaper, decentralized energy production has accelerated due to a development in geopolitics and climate that the …
On finding meaning & self-actualization in the little things by Nicolás Boullosa on February 16, 2022 As GenXers, we come from an era still defined by cinema, TV, and music hit lists blasted on the radio …
Do cumulative culture & extreme imitation prevent breakthroughs? by Nicolás Boullosa on January 26, 2022 The story of a man who lived a normal life with a hollowed-out brain pushed as a thin membrane into …
Dignifying urban/rural lives: decentralization done right by Nicolás Boullosa on September 13, 2021 Recently, someone brought up this logical paradox: most people who are urban are not elites. And most “urban elites” grew …
How will we live? urban prepping & rural resilience’s momentum by Kirsten Dirksen on April 18, 2020 “Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. …
How we live now: tips from offgridders, tinyhousers, homesteaders by Kirsten Dirksen on April 9, 2020 Resilience: “the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness.” For some, preparing for the unexpected has been a way of …
The world from our window: seclusion as introspection opportunity? by Kirsten Dirksen on April 5, 2020 A virus, smaller than a micron, has made it clear that we are now a world without borders. Confined to …
