1 day agoWe the People Can Control Our City Money — 3 Steps for Participatory Budgetingtranscript of speech delivered to East Bay Our Revolution Do you live in a city that has the same wretched problems year after year no matter who gets elected? Do you want progressive reforms, but your city council is too timid, corrupt or lazy to adopt them? Are you amazed…Politics5 min readPolitics5 min read
Dec 14, 2022Let’s advance Georgism with these 3 action tasksHow can the ideas of Georgism — specifically the beneficial application of Land Value Tax — be promoted successfully? In my previous essay “13 strategies to advance Georgism” I listed a “baker’s dozen” ideas obtained primarily from reddit/r/georgism advisors. …Economics5 min readEconomics5 min read
Dec 7, 202212 Strategies to advance GeorgismThe economic reforms Henry George popularized in the late 1800’s, known as “Georgism,” are enjoying an upsurge of interest, exhibited in a proliferation of both online groups (Facebook, Reddit) and on-the-ground schools, non-profits, and think tanks, like the Geo-Tinyism Institute. It’s wonderful George’s books, essays and speeches are perused and…Georgism7 min readGeorgism7 min read
Oct 14, 2022What’s your Purpose in Life? Or are you just a Status Quo Stooge?“The unexamined life is not worth living” — Socrates I’m frustrated in conversations recently. Disappointed, bored, annoyed. Who am I talking to? My peer group is well-educated in a high-income suburb of rich San Francisco. What are the main topics of conversation? Making Money / Wealth Accumulation; Getting our Kids…Purpose5 min readPurpose5 min read
Sep 22, 2022Indigenous freedom will inspire tinyism, direct democracy & mutual aid“The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.” — Wilma Mankiller (Cherokee) There’s 476 million indigenous people on Earth, 6.2% of the global population, living in 5,000 distinct groups on 22% of the land’s surface, encompassing 80% of the earth’s biodiversity. The indigenous, also called Native…Indigenous7 min readIndigenous7 min read
Aug 26, 2022I am “bread-pilled” by Kropotkin’s vision of social utopiaI just finished reading The Conquest of Bread by the Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921). …Utopia5 min readUtopia5 min read
Published in Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies·May 19, 2022Stop California Wildfires with Emerging Technology & Ecological EngineeringINTRODUCTION What can be done to stop the holocausts that torch citizens, roast properties, annihilate wildlife and poison us with toxic ash? California wildfires are increasingly dangerous and insanely expensive; suffocating smoke kills thousands prematurely every year and the cost in 2018 after 7,948 wildfires scorched 1,975,086 acres was $148.5 billion. …California27 min readCalifornia27 min read
Feb 13, 202225 Common Sense & Radical Ways to Help USA Small Farmersby Hank Pellissier American Farming is economically cruel and environmentally suicidal. Revolutionary change is needed now to produce food that’s healthy for the earth and human society. The ideal future for world agriculture is small, organic (and near-organic) farms, claims a 2013 United Nations report . The UN also determined…Farming11 min readFarming11 min read
Nov 24, 2021Tinyism wants a world of 10,000 micro-states (interview with the founder)Tinyism (also called Tinism) is a political ideology that wants to fracture today’s large nations into thousands, or tens of thousands, of microstates. The movement is in its larval stage — its subreddit has only 83 followers — but it is gathering momentum recently, with writers like Jared A. …Secession7 min readSecession7 min read
Published in Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies·Jul 22, 2021Five Techs & Tips for Survival in a Climate ApocalypseYesterday I read the existentially-depressing paper “Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy” by Jem Bendell PhD. …Climate Change3 min readClimate Change3 min read
