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Want to help create an Ecovillage? 10 Aug 2013 | 03:38 am
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” – Buckminster Fuller A week or so ago I received the most ex...
Book Reviews of Entropia 1 Aug 2013 | 07:08 am
Over the last few weeks some books reviews of Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation have been posted in cyberspace, which I’ve linked to below. I’ve also linked to a Q&A about Entropia which a...
Simple, Quiet, Affordable: Up for a Tree Change? 24 Jul 2013 | 03:41 pm
It is with a mixture of pleasure and pain that I write this post. A couple of weeks ago a reader of this website sent me through a link of an amazing rural property 1 hour 40 mins out of Melbourne: 10...
Charter of the Deep Future: Enough, For Everyone, Forever 12 Jul 2013 | 03:01 pm
As well as the excerpt below, I’d just like to offer a final reminder about the launch of my book, Entropia, this Thursday 18th July, at 6pm, on the campus of Melbourne University, Parkville. You’re i...
Invitation to Launch 27 Jun 2013 | 05:00 pm
I am launching my new book, Entropia, on 18 July at Melbourne University at 6pm, and I’d love it if local Simplicity Collective readers would join me! The launch will be hosted by the Australian Conse...
Utopia of Sufficiency 14 Jun 2013 | 06:02 pm
The following excerpts from my new book, Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation, have just been posted on the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia. Copies of the book and more informati...
Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation 11 Jun 2013 | 10:10 am
I am very pleased to announce the publication of my new book, Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation. This book is a creative work of fiction – a ‘utopia of sufficiency’ – in which I bring to l...
Transition Coburg: A Year in Review 27 May 2013 | 06:36 am
A little over a year ago I mentioned on this website that I had co-founded Transition Coburg (for an introduction to the Transition Town movement, see here). Below I have provided a snapshot of some o...
How to Build a Cheap Raised Garden Bed 26 Apr 2013 | 11:32 am
I’ve been advancing my guerilla gardening efforts recently, with a significant new raised bed now beautifying my nature strip, as seen in the featured picture. I thought in this post I could provide a...
Self-Sufficiency in a ‘Time of Plenty’ 17 Apr 2013 | 12:49 pm
Today I’m happy to be posting two interesting and insightful essays by Dr Amanda McLeod: (1) “Self-Suffciency in a ‘Time of Plenty’: Mass Consumerism and Freedom in 1970s Australia”; and (2) “Consumer...
