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What did we lose when we lost the stars?

Reading Dante’s Divine Comedy poses any number of challenges to modern readers. This should not, I’ll quickly add, deter modern readers from the attempt, which, in my view anyway, will more than repay the effort. In any case, one of these challenges may be the curious astronomical dimensions of Dante’s poem. You may know, for example, that […]

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: development, happiness, health, indigenous, nature, pollution, technology, urbanization

Cities and Green Orthodoxy

As the world has urbanized rapidly since 1950, per capita carbon footprint has declined, and so has carbon intensity in economic output, defined as the amount of energy used to produce a unit of economic growth.  But gross material throughputs and greenhouse gas production during this same period skyrocketed.  Global natural capital – fisheries, topsoil, freshwater supply, […]

Filed Under: Capitalism, Climate Change, Consumerism, Economic Growth and Degrowth, Environment Tagged With: climate change, consumerism, corporations, development, economic growth, globalization, sustainability, urbanization

Globalization and Terror

For people in the modern world, there may be nothing more difficult to comprehend than the group calling itself the Islamic State, or ISIS. The beheadings, rapes, and other acts of cruelty seem beyond understanding, as does the wanton destruction of priceless ancient monuments. Perhaps most mystifying of all is the way ISIS has been […]

Filed Under: Community, Inner transformation, Livelihoods and jobs, Localization, The Economics of Happiness Tagged With: community, conflict, democracy, development, globalization, localization, urbanization

Building a Village: Lessons in Urban Living from South Korea

“This is a very special house. It’s called the House of Happiness through Communication. People live here like a big family.” Our guide was 12 year-old Seon Jae, and we were standing in front of an unremarkable-looking 3-story brick building in Mapo-gu, a district of the high-rise metropolis of Seoul, South Korea. We were there […]

Filed Under: Community Tagged With: agriculture, community, culture, development, education, Planet Local, urbanization

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