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Movements for Climate Action: Towards Utopia or Apocalypse?

Will the climate crisis bring on a collapse of civilization, as forecast by popular dystopian thinkers, or is there potential for a positive ecological transition as projected by social ecologists? The further development of a movement for climate justice demands a reconstructive alternative to popular apocalyptic predictions.

Rebuilding Our Cities

Rebuilding our cities implies something of a municipal revolution. This is not only because the far reaching application of renewable and decentralized energy, the transition to a new more regional economy, the building of mixed and pedestrian cities and, the development of efficient transportation are challenges that need to be meet at the municipal level. It is also because making so many changes in everyday life and the ways cities are managed demands a radically expanded participatory democracy in order to succeed.

Solving the Energy Crisis

– It is our feeling that until we put the pieces together where the consumer of energy is a producer of energy, we are not going to create a truly sustainable future, says David Morris, vice president of the thirty-five year old US-based Institute for Local Self Reliance. Morris has been an advocate of a decentralized, renewable energy system and a fierce critic of centralized energy models. In this interview he provides the arguments for why the energy crisis will have to be solved at the local level and why energy generation should be democratized.

Art and Progress

Recent art history is marked by a conflict between modernist narratives of artistic progress and postmodernist rejections of such narratives. Can we transcend both the modernist and the post-modernist notions of progress? Can there be non-commodified art? Does art have a future?

Seeds in Seattle

“The process of providing a space for activists to come together and spark and inspire each other is a powerful one,” says Bob Spivey of the Social Ecology Education and Demonstration School (SEEDS). “From there,” he continues, “we can develop a more in-depth understanding of social ecology, and the effective means of manifesting and communicating it to the public.”

Success sale for "The Anti-Jewish Riots in Oslo"

Camilla Svendsen Skriung
Saturday, 20 March 2010 09:54
Our first book deals with anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism, which is both necessary and in its right place. The public seem to recognise this; "The Anti-Jewish Riots in Oslo" is now the most sold book in the Norwegian alternative bookstore Tronsmo, for two weeks.
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Good attendance at book event

Camilla Svendsen Skriung
Wednesday, 31 March 2010 14:35
The event Communalism hosted in conjunction with the release of the book "The Anti-Jewish Riots in Oslo" was really well attended. And during the conversation between the moderator Kirsti Bergh and author Eirik Eiglad several central issues and perspectives were raised, as well by the enthusiastic audience during a round of questions and remarks.
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