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Open Source Culture as a Methodology to Solve Global Problems

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Tre grånande herrar

Christopher Alexander er noko so sjeldant som ein arkitekt som meistrar tekning, språk, matematikk og fysikk på høgste nivå. Alle desse evnene har han nytta til å skapa eit nytt teoretisk grunnlag for arkitekturen. Fyrst gjekk Alexander til historia for å sjå kva ho har å tilby, og han dokumenterte 253 tidlause ”pattern” i klassikaren A Pattern Language . Seinare gjekk han til naturen for å læra, og han fann at orden og heilskap i naturen og arkitekturen er eit og det same, dokumentert i The Nature of Order . Anto n Schneider er den  tyske bygningsbiologien sin far, betre kjend under termen ”baubiologie”. Han starta ein forskings- og utdanningsinstitusjon i Neubeuern i 1976, og Tyskland har i dag eit velutvikla nettverk av bygningsbiologar. Det er i stor grad deira fortenest at Tyskland har eit rikt utval av økologiske byggprodukt, som naturmaling, naturfiberisolasjon og bygningsplatar av mellom anna leire, og sjølv dei store byggevarehusa tek dei seriøst. Bill Mollison...

Raising a Garden Bed: Build or Buy?

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- Raising a garden bed: build or buy?

RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms

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The Commons Law Project: A Vision of Green Governance

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Image:  Commons Strategies Group It is our premise that human societies will not succeed in overcoming our myriad eco-crises through better ‘green’ technology or economic reforms alone; we must pioneer new types of governance that allow and encourage people to move from anthropocentrism to biocentrism, and to develop qualitatively different types of relationships with nature itself and, indeed, with each other. An economics and supporting civic polity that valorizes growth and material development as the precondition for virtually everything else is ultimately a dead end—literally.  – David Bollier -  The Commons Law Project: A Vision of Green Governance It might be claimed that green governance is a utopian enterprise. But the reality is that it is the neoliberal project of ever-expanding consumption on a global scale that is the utopian, totalistic dream. It manifestly cannot fulfill its mythological vision of human progress through ubiquitous market activity. I...

The Propriety of Scale and the Standard of Ecological Health

I was so gratified to see Wendell Berry’s remarks in a recent interview (“Wendell Berry: Landsman” with Jim Leach in Humanities magazine, May/June 2012) where he makes a point about economics that is overlooked in these days when divisiveness rules the political roost. The general view is that the economic battle is between capitalism and socialism, but as Wendell observes, “both are industrial systems and they have made the same mistakes in some ways.” Both have ignored “the propriety of scale and the standard of ecological health.” -  Gene Logsdon

Christopher Alexander Wins the Vincent Scully Prize

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