Some of these posts go back years. I'm a progressing human — older opinions may not reflect who I am today.
Models and maps
Business & Childhood
Capitalism & musical chairs
American exceptionalism, revisited
Rail strikes
A "one-hit-wonder party" to solve First Past The Post
Where does the civic get its power from?
Everyone falls short.
Regulating free speech on Twitter
Things I've been reading: 26th December 2021
Things I've been reading: 24th October 2021
Things I've been reading: 19th September 2021
Things I've been reading: 4th August 2021
Things I've been reading: 1st August 2021
Things I've been reading: 18th July 2021
Things I've been reading: 4th July 2021
Things I've been reading: 30th May 2021
Things I've been reading: 17th January 2021
Things I've been reading: 3rd January 2021
Things I've been reading: 30th December 2020
Some of the books I've read in 2020
Things I've been reading: 27th December 2020
Things I've been reading: 20th December 2020
Things I've been reading: 16th August 2020
Dowding''s Law: "The United States is such an outlier that it should not be used as a normative data-point.
What open source hardware do we need next?
Civilisation Continuity Planning
Love: is it the absence of fear?
Things I've been reading (March 2018 - now)
Begin.
Another referendum on Europe won’t solve the problems we all feel. It’s time to create a better democracy.
Things customer service people should never say: "I''d suggest posting this in the Ideas Forum
I'll make them wild.
Putting the Green back in the Greenback - Evolving capitalism for the 21st century
137 years of climate anomolies
Some books I've enjoyed
Monarch butterfly numbers fell by 86% last year alone
The Shepard Tone Economy
Podcasts I subscribe to
The lessons from suffering
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Forging a sense of collective identity and finding common values is vital.
A Tragedy of the Commons
Anybody can become angry - that is easy
Authoritarians tell the truth about the future. Authoritarians lie about the past.
Exponential organisations
This town ain't big enough for the both of us - or .. oh. wait yes it is!
Dowding's law of services
Procedural language: The importance of going through the motions.
Capitalism analogy.
That'll do.
Man's search for meaning
Is the UK the best country in the world?
Migration policy suggestions from "The Strange Death of Europe
SpaceTech
Use primary sources
What rules should govern AI?
The narcissism of difference
Please stop misusing the word 'survivor
71 words for love
The unbearable lightness of politics
God helped society put its thumb on the scales
A Europe to die for.
Do smart people change faster?
What it means to live at the optimum
Mastery, Autonomy, Purpose & Utopia
Customer service times
The peace of the lobotomised or the peace of the contended?
Value vs profit.
Fossil fuel vs Renewable subsidies
Which fossil fuel companies are most responsible for climate change?
10 things I'd like the Green Party to do
Purpose matters.
What price a tree?
Now for some thoughts on sheep.
Guess who's an ENTP?
It costs the same to solve global warming as it does to solve it.
Education is a blinder.
Chickens are noisy. Children are noisy. Is there a link?
Game of Thrones to become daily, global, theatre
Attention-hungry child makes up song about immigration
I believe in dog. And other correlations.
Remove lead from fuel and violence declines dramatically. Imagine how much more peaceful and healthy the planet would be if we removed fossil fuels from society?
Turkeys will vote for Christmas if it's advertised to them enough.
Disrupt manifesto
90% ape, 9% human, 1% angel.
This is a peaceful blue planet.
A few choice quotes found of late
What is social enterprise?
First rule of Corporate Club
Historical re-imagining
The challenge of staying positive
The dark side of poetics.
The Facts In The Case Of Dr. Andrew Wakefield
Clear message to the police
EU sort of forces companies to report on social and environmental impact
Life is too important for obvious news
MH370
Somewhere, aliens are wincing
Enough is enough.
This won't hurt a bit, but you may feel a bit of a prick.
WebMind's webpage to raise funds for his mission to civilise humanity
Happy Winter!
I've decided I'm in favour of NHS privatisation.
Someone forgot that we're supposed to be amazing.
Post-materialist delight
Self-Discipline in 5 Sentences
Running on ice
If we can imagine it, we can do it. Right? Right?! RIGHT!
The status update I never write
There is still time
The changing nature of human communication. And all the cool things which happen now.
What did the world do before capitalism?
Reincarnation
I love the NHS but I'm about to have a micro-rant.
Great and glorious
Surviving the post-employment economy
Boring doesn't have to be boring.
How and Why to Be a Leader (Not a Wannabe)
The secret truth behind environmentalists’ favourite argument
Call of Duty.
Democracy is the best I can think of right now
Asking the right questions
Government ideologically supports nuclear power.
This Smart Wheel Makes Cycling in the City a Breeze [VIDEO]
Did Madeliene McCann kill 100,00 Syrians and cover up the IPCC report?
Obama is Outsmarting Everyone and Winning on Syria Without Firing a Shot
You want to ration my what?
Ashton Kutcher Just Told A Bunch Of Teenagers How To Be Sexy, In The Smartest Way Ever
Blue sky statistics
Excerpts from John Ashton’s Alternative Mansion House speech
Civilisation innovates, culture consolidates.
Embrace Life - always wear your seat belt
Profits Without Production
Does transparency lead to trust? Some evidence on the subject.
Zen courage.
With an Eye Toward Disaster, NYC Debuts Solar Charging Stations
What happened to political leadership?
Ancient Roman Concrete Is About To Revolutionize Modern Architecture
Do-It-Yourself Brain Stimulation Has Scientists Worried - Slashdot
Superior orders
Evidence-based policies
A film about The Prince and Global Sustainability
A speech by HRH The Prince of Wales to the Future for Food Conference, Georgetown University, Washington DC
If Day
The Great Feast" - TEDxOxbridge
There are two kinds of failure.
Does your MP think a vote on Europe is the most important thing right now?
The Scale of Genuine Civilisation
A postcard to Michael Gove.
Accept what you can not change, change what you can not accept.
At-a-glance: Queen' Speech 2013
In historical terms, today is absolutely incredible. In terms of the world we're going to create in your lifetime, today is rather embarrassing. Get to work.
The Bottled Water Challenge - your opinions sought!
Petition fatigue: in defence of clicktivism.
Playing the spoons to Faithless' Insomnia
Pretend that you're happy
Darwin on marriage.
Will I be pretty? Will I be rich?
Blame the <del>poor</del> rich.
Flexible Work Arrangements and 21st Century Worker's Guilds
Market folly
14 big trends to watch in 2013
The Science of Storytelling: Why Telling a Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brains
14 wonderful words with no English equivalent
The 32 most alarming charts from the government’s climate change report | Grist
The world is on track for disaster. Who wants to buy a farm?
The four ages of sand
The Generals by Shel Silverstein
The social tipping point is 8%
Manifestos for life
The Mountain & the Sky
Should I be afraid of the future?
Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps
Is global warming real?
Building on allotments
The Quantity Theory of Insanity.
Hashtag
The power of pure imagination
Apologising to Wonga
Dark Skies
Debt forgiveness. For everyone. For ever.
The Righteous Mind
Please watch these two films.
Staples To Offer 3D Printing Services
Humanity has never faced such a bigger series of challenges….Just start
The value in being together
“Why Socialism” by Albert Einstein
Somebody thought of it, and someone believed it" - a generation steps forward at London Sustainability Jam
PoW: Philosophy on Second Life
Why climate change doesn’t spark moral outrage, and how it could
Visualising cyber attacks
Debt: The first five thousand years
What resources do we have left? (A: not many)
To Capitalist Folly, Town in Spain Offers Reply
Flying windturbines
And this is only talking about cars
Europe: from 1000AD to today
The safety of an abusive relationship
15 Powerful Things Happy People Do Differently
It's ok to do the right thing.
Maslow was so right.
Let the river run
Faults
Energy trends per country
Views are my own
I live in fear / anticipation of this conversation.
Leaving behind earthly feelings
The Most Astounding Fact
21 hour work week
Sustainable shipping
Public spending by UK government department
Untitled
Where does money come from?
Breathless with love for life.
Declaration of the 99%
Networked intelligence
Two more quotes from Forty days of Rain
You can not EARN more than about £1m / year. Tops.
A contract with our children.
Euro, systems, design..
Permaculture principles
Toy Story
Real democracy is rising on the horizon
Top 5 reasons NOT to buy organic
How we feed ourselves
Amon Tobin visual
A 10% strike by the 99%?
How to make legal documents interesting
Untitled
WeFirst Manifesto - Ten Core Beliefs
Give And Take: a proposal for ad-hoc micro-volunteering
The Food Movement: getting better or worse?
UK's first local electronic currency
(e) book publishing tools
Amen
How to run a Responsible Society
Shades of green: should there be more organic licencing options?
What motivates consumers to make ethically conscious decisions?
UnLtd Futures
Visualising an economy of plenty
American spending, in perspective
Let them yearn for tat.
The glorious future belongs to you, to me and to all of us. Look up.
Federated networks of food providers
How algorithms shape our world
The world's most incredible photo
Link round up
3D printing using nothing but solar power and sand.
Great data, beautifully used - Snake oil?
Solar is Ready Now
100 years of unsustaintable fishing
Economic development not economic growth.
Live a good life.
Can you feed a family on fifty quid a week?
Dollar dumped
Radiation Dosage Chart
Country Man
It only takes a generation to redefine normal.
Link round-up
My MP strives for growth
Tidy your <del>room</del> planet or else there will be no <del>pudding</del> Maldives.
Skipping dinner
Masters of the Universe
Eat smart.
66 things to grow in any house
With great power doesn't come great responsibility.
Almost enough to make one optimistic
Job vacancy: Are you passionate about rural communities?
How to get petrol for 32p per litre.
Kings Lynn incinerator & Zero Waste
Organic is the only game in town. Get playing. Now.
What's stopping progress?
The nature of human change and the change of human nature.
What is the Future of Food?
Nothing Is As Powerful As An Idea Whose Time Has Come.
Blogging from the Soil Association conference
What's in a name?
It's spring. Plant something. Feel good.
When is food security going to become an issue for you, too?
Pay more for your food
How to make your savings work harder
Fish, Forests, and the 21st Century commons
Superstruct future forecasting game
Gaming for a better world.
Reasons to be cheerful: Peak Phosphorous
Give me half a chance and I'd be taking off my clothes and living in the jungle
Time to use those ‘insurance files’ on Rupert Murdoch?
Today's hero: Mark Kennedy
EU organic food push
First petrol, then energy – now food prices skyrocket
Twixtmas
The Search for Meaning: Part XIVC
Dan & Dan’s Festive WikiLeaks Song
Round of good things this week
Human Culture through language
Hi, my name's Ed, and I'm an ENTP
OneUpMe.com - Fun with Wordplay
I don't do memory, I do action
Five Ways to Well-being
The Good Gym
Wikileaks: Website of the knowledge of good and evil
I Wish This Was
Neo-Classical elements: Time, money, energy, politics
Appropedia: the WikiLeaks of good knowledge
Merchant Bank that threatened to leave UK ‘just went round corner and waited’ | NewsBiscuit
Working hours? They are just so last season. | Forum For The Future
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life
Convenience will kill you.
Vision 2050. From here to there.
Why are you here?
FARM:shop
Eric Cantona joins in calling for economic change
Funniest ever 'Lost' sign
Self-Repair Manifesto
Is this evidence that we can see the future?
Contentious post about tuition fees
Global Warming' may still be a problem
Wealth creators, or concentrations of power?
Facebook relationship data
YouTube - RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
Transparent, conductive, energy-generating plastic film
How do we get the right answer?
8 rules or managing the commons
One final paragraph of advice.
What’s Mine is Yours - Collaborative consumption
Nature's gift: How much is the ecosystem worth?
The Future of Money
What is ZCB30?
3 minute spelt bread
Finite and Infinite Games
Is there a word for things which are brilliant exemplars of themselves?
How to make a fast buck in the green economy
Top Ten Constituents of New Commons Economy
vlogbrothers
Turn over a New Leaf
Stuxnet
Open-Access Public Workshops
Supporting the vitality of the Commons
Help fund the Do Lectures by designing a poster
Change the System, Not the Climate
Invest in green energy
Walking across America
Make money from your car when you're not using it
Good Guide
Copy and clone
I Love Charts
Urban Farming
Economic reality check
Change your search engine, save the world
Prince Charles' new film, Harmony
World greenhouse gas emissions
9 things I'd do if I were in government right now
How did it come to this?
Bamboo water bottle
Solitude
Turn off your unused mobile phone charger and save equivalent energy for 3 weeks of TV.
Google Transparency Report
Money says 'no'. Money is broken. Keeps saying 'no' to everything sensible, and 'yes' to lots of stupid things.
Thank you, Waitrose! Free, expensive, friendly, and ethical.
Year 34: we have sighted land
Boomerang trade
4 steps to handling emotional or conflict conversations
The TED Commandments – rules every speaker needs to know
Problems with paradigm change
Mottainai
The one that got away
Bottled water is the answer to global warming
Art of the Start
More of the most amazing thing you might see this week
Don't do anything that isn't play
Probably the most awesome thing you will see this week
A formula for co-operation
20 get rich quick schemes
Happy Monkeys
Two great new London Maps
The surprising truth about what motivates us
Dunning Kruger effect
It's all too beautiful
It's not BP's fault, it's yours
3 neat business ideas
A Brief List of Epiphanies
Tired of ISMs?
Vatican reaches out to atheists
Is there a useful time to have money?
iPad = Tom Cruise
Memento Mori
Kurt Vonnegut
French farmers turn Champs-Elysees into huge farm
10 Things I Learned From Meditation
Man invents life
The Afghan Conflict - A Map of Possible Scenarios
How to Grow More Vegetables (than you ever thought possible on less land that you can imagine)
Is permaculture economically viable?
Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull
World War III - And so it begins...
Status Anxiety
Earning vs making
BBC News - New government: Reaction in quotes
How fast is Google Chrome? (Includes explosions)
Entrepreneurs
Every single day is a decision you make
Farm life
We are now a 3 party country
Notes from the Pyrenees
Temporary Autonomous Zone
Growth or no-growth?
John Maynard Keynes
Travel Forever and Live Rent Free
Fact about bottle water
FarmSubsidy.org
Principle of double effect
Design for America - govt. of/by/for the people
Clear skies
God is a stress reaction
Looking for a happy, well paid job? Become a gardener
Kim Stanley Robinson on BldgBlog
AC Grayling
Efficient & Affordable Wood House Made From Shipping Pallets
Turn an old plastic bottle into a 50W lightbulb
Shel Silverstein
10 steps to ideas that win
The UK's renewable energy is a national shame
James Murdoch vs Reason
How Different Groups Spend Their Day
You have such freedoms! Exercise them!
Lexicon of cooperation
Green Revolution in India Wilts as Subsidies Backfire
Ethical bottled water is an oxymoron
A farm for the future
Nation Realizes Money Just A Symbolic, Mutually Shared Illusion
What do we call ourselves?
Do you have unused land in London? Get free money!
Extra Ethical
Two ideas for storing soup
Hubris and humus - Lessons from the garden
Gardening is great
Our first few days at Coueillas
Haiti is no big deal.
Desire influences visual perception
Are you looking at my RSS?
Hierarchy of needs
2010: The year we make compost.
Borders are bad, mmkay
Sell the Vatican, feed the world
Good.is' most popular infographics of 2009
Free documentaries
Go out and look at the stars tonight
Middle class virtue
Web of mistrust
What happened to the Biosphere?
The Postcode Paper - welcome to your neighbourhood
Quantitive psychology
What do we do now?
Act now - or I will
Shiply
Israeli organ donors to get transplant priority
John Macnab
Despair - Herman Hesse
Link roundup
How valuable are you?
They said I was mad, I said they were mad, but they out-numbered me, dammit
Royal Mail strikes - a postie's perspective
X Factor
Link round-up
Swiss minarets - a defence, not an attack
How not to sell permaculture
Peak Everything
Things are looking good for GoodBreaks
Luxury hotels get into voluntourism
Economist "Did you know?" 2009
Heidi's Bar
Unforgeable' ID cards
Dissolution of the Long Parliament
Scrubs (TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Biological lego
Divorce Rates
The World According to Monsanto
Going from good to bad.. shouldn't that be the other way around?
Perception of time
Horror of Kenya's 'witch' lynchings
WWIII Propaganda
Ways of considering society
I have nothing to fear from a DNA database
The Bible as a word cloud
Money is getting in the way of progress
What are desirable net gains?
Albert Schweitzer Quotes
Housing on mars
Mass dolphin stranding linked to navy exercises
Tip of the day
How to be Good
Why are women injured in cycling accidents more than men?
Free Reiki Attunement
Hammer Pants flash mob
The perception that something ought to be done
Validation
What Would Jesus Buy
YouTube - Sony's New Fucking Piece of Shit that doesn't do the God Damned thing its supposed to! by the Onion
Investing In Lawsuits Beats the Street
What now for Ed Dowding, not MEP?
Repurposing bikes
This and that
Another reason not to buy plastic bottled water, or plastic bottled anything for that matter.
Untitled
In Transition
Wind powered car
Orwell on Spring
GiveWell
Spotify media pack / ad rates
Link roundup
Make it important
Database of all children launched
Link Round up
Time & Space
Ed Dowding, Independent MEP candidate
Who should you vote for in the EU elections
EBookers redefines "total
Pipped at the post to be an independent MEP ... this time
ElectEd.in introductory speech
TED is coming local!
6 Reasons never to give up your biometric data or DNA
Susan Boyle: the organic carrot of entertainment
Own it!!" day -- make this YOUR cause
DNA databases require so much regulation that abuse is inevitable.
At last, Europe has become interesting
We are six years away from an energy crisis
Sacrifices on the alter of efficiency
Better models: cars
We're small, lost, and could use some cheering up.
For everyone reading this by RSS
Einstein
Disraeli
China suggests a new currency
10 tips to bring economic life closer to our biological environment
Links for the week
How we measure progress and development
I think I'm pretty funny
Do we have enough rage?
Journalism, not newspapers
Twitter will not grow much larger than it is now
Market failures: bridges vs tunnels
The old models don't work
So much for the green economy...
What cost the bailouts?
How to make things better
An enormous civilisation discovered in the Amazon
There's AT BEST an 80% chance that humanity will see the next century
Animal Planet for the deaf
Religion is like a large dog
Gordon Brown Finally Speaks The Truth
Cambridge, Mass. City Council has voted 9-0 to remove security camera
A paradox involving trees
I might have called this all wrong
Great posters
How the mighty are fallen
Hydrate the world
Going into politics
Should I be an MP?
Obama on #MPExpenses
The Buckminster Fuller Challenge
Best playlists eva!
Tied up in knots
STILL not going to America
Knitting night
Relationships, made code
Biggest news of the decade: Body repair 'could be ramped up
LoveNinjas
Recession is a test of character" -- Gordon Brown
It's all fucking fucked
Recession
Damn their twitchy noses!
DNA / Europe rocks the free world!
Monbiot has the answer.
Peace breaks out
Darwin spins again
If Adam Buxton had written Obama's acceptance speech
Happy people dont watch TV
The slippery slope of evil
Left, right, and centering
Make/Shift Shelving System
Abandoned towns
No free papers
Your life
London is Free
If only...
Economic Reform
This is Now
Vicarious fame
Things to do with my life
Nudge: Rational man
Let's work together for change
Happiness Hypothesis
World military spending
The third way
ID cards
Some offers for y'all
uhoh.. at last.fm has some com...
Only 4 rabbits, but still that...
If banks can get billions for ...
Interactive marketing
Damn you all to hell!
98 months
Tropic Thunder
Artemis Quadrathlon
Ad for a funeral company
Blogging
The modern shape of Universities
There's going to be a bloody revolution
Democracy becomes a plebocratic
Go Michelle!
30% of the workforce will retire in 10 years.
Driving abroad
Funny as hell. Wait until the end!
Welcome the new robot overlords
What is my role?
We just have to change the game
Last FM
1.3m seconds to live
Effective States
Oxytocin news
Internet timeline
10 skills to succeed at almost anything
Daft Hands
Best chat up line ever
Important post-apocalypse skills #35
Another good you tube moment
Just don't.
Everyone's a VIP to someone
Book, er, prize?
Sandra Jordan
Summit findings
Life is great. It really is.
Look how much bad shit there is going on.
Read regularly and often
Solar power
debate
Umbrella
It's in the mix
CCTV does not work
Motto
People in Bars
It''s time growth was dethroned as a goal for this country
Marcus Brigstocke on Religion
A more perfect union
I'll bet we won't all get a phone call from Condi
UK's MI5 Wants Oyster Card Travel Data
Weather forecasts
Allegience to the Queen
How to prepare children for the future?
Bring about Utopia, by Bertrand Russell
How to sound more important
Links for today
Life is better shared
We are the drones
Sand beasts
The Ancient Greek economy
Love
US Elections
Great video and song - Dan le Sac
Media-crat-y
Forgotten a tune?
Innovation at its very best
My teddy bear is called Jesus
Symbols
Planks and specks
You cant win if you do / dont play by the rules
Ask 500 people
How to get things done
New iPod video / Fiest
Down the tubes
Comedowns
Meaning of life
Acupuncture
Talking
Happiness
Democrat vs Republican ad
Nothing is the new something
Police given access to c-charge cameras
Sensible arab woman
mindolympics
How to tell if something is a good idea
Friends will be the death of you
Going Commando
Another fantastic TED lecture
Advice in 7 words or less
Sapid
Coffee
Hammertime
The wisdom of the Irish
Draw a pig
I want to be able to do this
Hypnotism and health
Termagant
Smallpox is too small and poxy.
Placebo
TED talks
100 mile diet
Great music
What would someone clever do?
Hear the summer
If beauty's skin deep, she's beautiful all the way through
If it's not an American flag, it's probably a bomb.
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