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Doug Bierend

Writer, author, sometimes journalist, friendly fella. https://www.dougbierend.com

Interview: Devine Lu Linvega and Permacomputing

Interview: Devine Lu Linvega and Permacomputing

Devine Lu Linvega is, among many other things, an artist and programmer. Along with their partner, they live on a 10-meter sail boat, traveling the world in what Linvega describes as a nomadic, "solarpunk life". Along the way, they explore and practice principles of repair, maintenance, frugality,

One Way or Another, the World is Headed for a Degrowth Future

One Way or Another, the World is Headed for a Degrowth Future

If we are to step off onto other worlds, shouldn’t it be from right relationship to this one?

The Timelessness of Snakes and Ladders

The Timelessness of Snakes and Ladders

How a common children’s game has survived for centuries as a moral teaching tool.

Some of the lands, life, and waters that together describe Cascadia

Interview: David McCloskey, founder of the Cascadia Institute

David McCloskey is a retired sociology and ecology professor, and founder of the Cascadia Institute. He is widely credited with popularizing the term 'Cascadia' in bioregional parlance, and has developed numerous detailed maps of the lands and waters that define it. Bioregionalists conceive of place not as abstract

Book Review: The Afterlife Project

Book Review: The Afterlife Project

The further into the future one tries to peer, the more opaque the picture becomes. Some may place a premium on 'getting it right'—of predicting in broad strokes how things will actually transpire—but in an imagined tomorrow I believe it is far more useful to find

The Rise of the Machines Happened a Long Time Ago

The Rise of the Machines Happened a Long Time Ago

We shouldn’t fear a future ‘rise of the machines’, because they already rose and we already lost.