Things categorized as 'dystopia'
Posted on October 1st .
Always interesting, what reading through your bookcase will bring up, although I have to credit D. with bringing this to my attention and reading the passage to me amidst bouts ...
Posted on September 26th .
"At least your anger is still intact." D. said while we were following a live debate in the Parliament about "the moroccan problem". Or: "moroccan street terrorists". Or "muslim colonists" ...
Posted on September 5th .
Apparently, we, the Dutch, are famous for our struggle against water. And of course, in Gore's Powerpoint slideshow, we're all potential flood victims. Yes, the water is rising, due to ...
Posted on August 31st .
Even my trustworthy Canon XL1s wasn't able to deal with the sony tape crap it was fed by a well-meaning assistant and so it ate the tape with all the ...
Posted on August 15th .
There are things Rotterdam doesn't do, like tourism, and things it does do, like violence and murder (top of the league table in the Netherlands, it seems) Yet our ...
Posted on August 2nd .
So far we are having an interesting summer, with weather ranging from the autumnal to the tropical. KNMI are warning us that global warming goes much faster here than in ...
Posted on August 1st .
In Dutch, "at home" is one word, "thuis". The first time I met T. was a couple of years ago when I attended something that was termed: "a week of ...
Posted on July 30th .
Retrofitting the suburbs, with David Holmgren
[youtube width="425" height="355"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cjhQWdbqE4[/youtube]
part 2; part 3; part 4
Posted on July 29th .
At last, at last, the buzz is about peak oil, energy descent and sustainable (and might I add "inclusive") design and planning. When the Transition Town movement was founded, well ...
Posted on July 27th .
Clivewrites on the price of oil dependency in Australia, at relocalize, one of many websites about local transitioning efforts. (I partly post this for C., who is starting ...
