Garden Earth - Beyond sustainability
A blog about the future of the planet. Ecology, Environment, Development and Economy are put together and looked at critically.
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Towards a theory of the Capitalist Mode of Money (opens the original)
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I diverted – somewhat* – from my current theme with the last article. In between, we have harvested our potatoes and yesterday we had a course in food conservation and preparation techniques. <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="720" src="https://sub
The economics of food (opens the original)
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The other day I watched The Economics of Eating, a film by Jake Marquez and Maren Morgan with Helena Norberg-Hodge. The project sponsor, Local Futures, presents the film like this: “The film challenges the assumption that large-scale farms and long supply chains are the best way to feed the world. It explores how public policies, subsidies, infrastructure
Walking the talk (opens the original)
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I ended the previous post with: “By reducing the operating space for capitalism, through a combination of alteration of the rules, by abandonment and partial abolishment of capitalism, e.g. by public or local take overs, one can simultaneously reduce the influence of capitalism on everyday life and develop new institutions and norms.“Here, I want to elaborate a bit more on the strategies.First, it is pertinent to understand that we, you and I as well as humanity at large i
Capitalism – adapted, altered, abolished or abandoned? (opens the original)
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You can't end growth and keep capitalism (opens the original)
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If you are a regular reader, you know that I mostly have many references in my texts. Occasionally, when broaching a big topic – like this one – I find it better not to get entangled in references or lose my flow in writing by trying to find some source to back up what I already believe.I never use AI for my writing. I have no AI subscription. I often look into the free Google AI response to my queries though. I always go to the source and quite often they are flawed or the AI didn’t get the act
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