the ecology of happiness
Gerald
The Landscape of the Next Great Innovations
We seem to be waiting for the technological silver bullet that would make it possible to continue with nowadays’ “normal” lifestyles that aren’t really making us happy, but are just too dangerously comfortable and convenient to give up. Caught up in the dazzle of “just one more thing,” of all that electronic tools/toys can do [...]
The Ultimate Green Tech: Better Ways of Life
Since it is technology which is seen to have brought us comforts, but also be the culprit when it comes to climate change and other challenges we are and will be facing, it seems to technology that needs to be changed. So, if it is the ways we produce power that are not green enough, [...]
Beyond Earth Hour, to Better Ways
Earth Hour is fast approaching, everyone’s being asked to turn off their lights for one hour to set a sign for a global movement against climate change – and then, “I will if you will,” to go “beyond the hour.” It’s right there that the problems start. Symbolic action to let us feel that we [...]
You Can’t Know Yourself. So, Create Yourself
There are still far too many people just going through life like they are sleepwalking, seeking the easy life of the worker drone/consumer in a stable career that society got them to seek (and the contemporary world has increasingly stopped offering). In the ‘opposition’, there is a widespread questioning – but mainly just of personal [...]
The Really Existing Necessity of the Kitchen Garden
A little garden plot of vegetables and herbs, maybe even created as a high-tech/high-touch vertical window farm, seems one of those strange indulgences of the most avant-garde circles. Whoever else could possibly care about heirloom white carrots and purple potatoes? In fact, though, one need not look speculatively far ahead to see the misunderstanding. From [...]
Leading Europe – The Creativity in Crisis Times
Europe is in the midst of crisis, maybe the Euro zone of a common currency will break up, maybe that would drag the world economy down even further than it was post-Lehman Brothers et al., into outright depression. Lots of uncertainties and fears currently surround “the old continent”… Actually, things are much worse. The situation [...]
Waking Up to Change Generation
It’s time for all of us to wake up to the way our happiness and our very lives are intimately woven into this world, not wait for “the young” to get things done which the older generation couldn’t. Often enough, it is not even an inability, is has just been an unwillingness to give up [...]
Life Is Local
So much has recently been made of the ways the whole world has grown connected, “flat”… Without manufacturing in China, many goods would not be as cheap as they currently are; with floods in Thailand, computer hard drives and digital camera optics suddenly become scarce; with American consumers buying less, China’s rise is hampered; doubt [...]
The Tapestry of Life
… or, why this is the ecology of happiness. Businesspeople are amazed about the networks of global manufacturing and trade; the mystically inclined find examples proving how we are all one from Eastern philosophy to quantum mechanics; scientists wonder about the way the quantum world and, in fact, everything may be entangled in each other; ever [...]
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