Category Archives: Environment

Expecting a minor bump; about to hit a brick wall at 200km/h

That, in a nutshell, is my take on the current state of the world when it comes to climate change and other “challenges” ahead. How to tackle it? As much as I criticized The Lean Startup book in my review … Continue reading

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The dirty mobile telecommuters

Telecommuting can be great. It can also be loaded with many lies, one of which I’m going to partially debunk here: environmental benefits. Here’s typical imagery of a telecommuter, the kind that can be found from a plethora of presentations … Continue reading

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Time to shift from sustainability to resilience

In my previous post I mentioned my stance of climate change being a predicament rather than a problem. That’s just one of the challenges that are moving from the problem-space into the predicament-space. As that happens, we will need to … Continue reading

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Review: Edible Forest Garden, vol 2: Ecological Design and Practice for Temperate Climate Permaculture

Where volume 1 of this book was focused more on permaculture-related theory, this 640-page whopper is all (well, mostly) about practical things – a toolkit, really. And what a toolkit; without a doubt the most comprehensive manual for designing and … Continue reading

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Seeing the trees for the forest

Usually this phrase is used in reverse and figuratively, but this time I mean it like this and literally. The thing is that when I moved to Australia, I realized I can’t name most of the trees. As I love … Continue reading

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