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- Podcast #19: Sharon Rudman on Ideology, Discourse and Identity in Post-apartheid South Africa
- Podcast #18 – Lloyd Edwards from Raggy Charters
- Podcast #17 – Mark Marshall on Snakes, Snake Handling, Conservation (and more!)
- Podcast #16 – Kevin Abraham on music and business successes
- Podcast #15 – Karen and Corné du Plessis on Food and Nihilism (and much more!)
- Podcast #14 – Jonathan Silverman on art (and much more!)
- Rocket stove oven (pics + video)
- Podcast #11 – Ian Buchanan on Assemblage Theory (Deleuze), Control Society, and More
- Podcast 007: Andrea Hurst and Belinda du Plooy on The Water Pilgrimage, a University Engagement Event
- Podcast: 005 Gary Koekemoer on WESSA, Nelson Mandela Bay, fish farms, bunkering, and more
- The Perspective Project Podcast – 001 Les Albrecht on Wine and Vaginas (and more)
- The Centre for the Transformation of Habitual Perception
- (Small-scale Solar Energy) + (Positive Sacrifice) = Sustainability
- The Perspective Project Podcast 002 – Anton Botha (former Mandela-Rhodes and Fullbright Scholar, and United Nations Employee)
- Article: Know thy Systemic Enemies – Mechanisms that Prevent Transformation
- Rocket stove sauna version 2.0
- New thermal mass rocket heater for tiny cabin
- A Brief Introduction to Yoga and Meditation for Seniors
- Podcast #13: Das and Clara on Shamanism, initiations, conscious living, meditation, and more
- Article: A philosophical situation: democratic capitalism, the ecological crisis, and the issue of choice
- Podcast: Mike Raimondo from Green Renaissance (Amazing Short Inspirational Films)
- Podcast 009: Dan Cornick on The Amatola Hike, Away With The Fairies (famous Hogsback backpackers), an encounter with a fairy, and more
- Podcast: Angie and Rod on Learning Clan, an off-grid, co-created talent exchange community village in the forest
- Podcast: Bert Olivier on all things Philosophy
- Article: “To learn healing knowledge”: Philosophy, psychedelic studies and transformation
- Podcast: Sean Martin on Blockchain, disintermediation, trust, adding value, business, provenance, and more
- Article: Placing the ecological crisis in a broader context – the Orphic and the Promethean
- Podcast #12 Riley Thompson on Gender Transition, Bipolar, Art, Creativity, and more
- Linux Mint 19 installation, and getting WINE to work
- Mini ‘Peterberg’ batch burner
- Small solar power system at off-grid cabin
- Rocket thermal mass heater
- Eco-brick reading room build at Jikani community centre
- Reflections on a transformative philosophy talk that face-planted
- Podcast: Rudi Engelbrecht on Vipassana meditation and walking 4500 kms around South Africa
- DIY compost toilet – urine diversion using watering can as separator
- Thermal mass rocket stove steam room suana
- The Gorge Plot’s off-grid shed/cabin
- Filling in some gaps to the story so far
- On the Green Renaissance video: No Somewhere Else
- Humanure how-to: helpful links
- Pictures: basic shed/cabin construction
- Tour of 5 year old rustic abode
- Thermal Mass Rocket Heater
- Research study: introduction and background
- Research study: aims and methodology
- Research study: hypotheses
- Research study: comments on some central terms
- Research study: summary
- Research study: conventions
- Research study: overall conclusion
- Research study: recommendations and suggestions – specific actions
- Research study: recommendations and suggestions – on the paradoxical need to discriminate
- Research study: recommendations and suggestions – general points
- Research study: recommendations and suggestions – points relating to philosophy
- 7.4.1 Conclusion to Chapter 7
- 7.3.1.8 On communitary engagement
- 7.3.1.7 On the Orphic theme of inner peace
- 7.3.1.6 On philosophical transformation
- 7.3.1.5 The Sage and the Wold: Habitual perception and Philosophical perception
- 7.3.1.4 Philosophy as a way of life is Orphic: Hadot’s analysis
- 7.3.1.3 Philosophy as a way of life (á la Hadot) is Orphic: the Philo extract
- 7.3.1.2 Discourse about philosophy / Philosophical discourse
- 7.3.1.1 Hadot on Philosophy as a transformative process
- 7.2.2.12 Comments on the structure on this study: example of a philosophical progression
- 7.2.2.11 Thinking the ‘transformation of life’
- 7.2.2.10 Humanity as it has been historically constituted / The established model of humanity
- 7.2.2.9 Preconceived ideas of human nature
- 7.2.2.8 Singularity participating in universality
- 7.2.2.7 Redefining human nature
- 7.2.2.6 Shedding light on the distance between power and truths
- 7.2.2.5 Elucidating choice
- www.crocssa.co.za review
- 7.2.2.4 No certainty of ‘being at home’; internal foreignness; the breakdown of organic society
- 7.2.2.3 Changing the concepts of the debate
- 7.2.2.2 Philosophy and the creation of new problems
- 7.2.2.1 Philosophy is not a dialogue: Incommensurability, mutual exclusivity, and paradoxical relations
- 7.2.1.4 Philosophy: cutting through particulars to reach the universal
- 7.2.1.3 Žižek: philosophy as the creation of new problems – the biogenetics example
- 7.2.1.2 Badiou: what is a situation for philosophical thought?
- 7.2.1.1 The philosopher’s ‘personal views’ versus philosophy itself
- Chapter 7 of PhD: introduction
- Link to full article: making the case for cannabis
- Making the Case for Cannabis – a philosophical contribution
- Making The Case for Cannabis – a newspaper article
- The permaculture chapter: conclusion
- The permaculture chapter: immediate priorities
- The permaculture chapter: principle 12 – creatively use and respond to change
- The permaculture chapter: principle 11 – use edges and value the marginal
- The permaculture chapter: principle 10 – use and value diversity
- The permaculture chapter: principle 9 – use small and slow solutions
- The permaculture chapter: principle 8 – integrate rather than segregate
- The permaculture chapter: principle 7 – design from patterns to details
- The permaculture chapter: principle 6 – produce no waste
- The permaculture chapter: principle 5 – use and value renewable resources and services
- The permaculture chapter: principle 4 – apply regulation and accept feedback
- The permaculture chapter: principle 3 – obtain a yield
- The permaculture chapter: principle 2 – catch and store energy
- The permaculture chapter: principle 1 – observe and interact
- The permaculture chapter: twelve principles
- The permaculture chapter: permaculture – definition and ethics
- The permaculture chapter: sources of information
- The permaculture chapter: urgency to transition
- The permaculture chapter: Disclaimer and Introduction
- The Zeitgeist Movement
- First update of 2016 and a few reflections – better late than never!!
- The Occupy Movement
- Eisenstein’s Sacred Economics
- Magicians of the Gods: Review + food for thought
- Hancock’s Civilisation with Amnesia
- Research study: Sheldrake’s morphic field theory (section of chapter 5)
- THE PEOPLE of Guatemala just succeeded in arresting their corrupt president: evidence that consent of THE PEOPLE matters
- Crucial Info: background to why we MUST transform South Africa
- Let Us Transform South Africa
- ‘Voices from the suburbs’ discussion / debate: A RESPONSE
- Audio discussion: ‘Voices from the suburbs – can we talk our way out?’ – PE Philosophy Café
- Research study: Hawken’s ‘Blessed Unrest’ (section of chapter 5)
- Research study: ‘older cultures’ (section of chapter 5)
- Research study: chapter 5 introduction
- March against Monsanto: my thoughts (video)
- Princen’s Traffic Control Measures
- Elon Musk on the Tesla PowerWall (Video)
- Charles Eisenstein – Interview/Discussion @ London Real
- Deleuze’s societies of control
- Guest speakers at a Health and Wellness Fair
- Garden update: pictures ;-)
- Marcuse’s one-dimensionalality
- Democracy in a neoliberal free-market capitalist system
- Mill’s dangers of democracy
- Chapter 4 of study: short intro, etc.
- General update after extended absence: autumn equinox 2015
- On the Industrial Growth Society, or ACID
- Capitalism (and the eco-crisis)
- Solar cooker at work…
- Herald snake happy in the compost…
- Science (and the eco-crisis)
- Technology (and the eco-crisis)
- Christianity (and the eco-crisis)
- Research study: introduction to chapter 3
- The new kitchen-‘lounge’ – pictures: then to now!
- Lamb – wise enough (?)
- Early spring garden pictures… and a few comments, of course!
- ‘In good time’
- Woodwork / building update
- The bio-tech industry (part of chapter 2 of research study)
- The meat and fish industries – part of chapter 2 of research study
- ‘Shed’ walls etc.
- The mining industry – part of chapter 2 of research study
- The construction industry – part of chapter 2 of research study
- Polyphasic sleep update – reflections on why I slipped!!!
- The agriculture industry – part of chapter 2 of research study
- The petrochemical industry – part of chapter 2 of research study
- The fossil-fuel industry – part of chapter 2 of research study
- The fractional reserve money industry – part of chapter 2 of research study
- Mid-August update and a few musings…
- Mid winter vegetable garden pics update
- Overpopulation and resource depletion – part of chapter 1 of research study
- Landfill waste, associated pollution, toxic and chemical waste – – part of chapter 1 of research study
- Fresh water – part of chapter 1 of research study
- Deforestation – part of chapter 1 of research study
- Loss of topsoil – part of chapter 1 of research study
- Greenhouse gases, carbon emissions and climate change – part of chapter 1 of research study
- Loss of biodiversity – part of chapter 1 of research study
- Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) – part of chapter 1 of research study
- Another call to change. (A.k.a. Writing about an ecological crisis while trying to live ‘alternatively’)
- Journal entry 7 – slowing down, stopping, presence, progress.
- Polyphasic sleep log – day 96
- Journal entry 6 – I too am part of the project!
- Ph.D. Proposal: Philosophy and Permaculture
- Journal entry 5 – changing routine, work cycles, daylight hour adjustment, permaculture lives…
- Topping up raised beds
- Polyphasic Sleep Log – Day 63
- Journal entry 4 – rain, electricity, periodic work cycles (a.k.a. seasonality), raised bed revitalisation
- Journal entry 3 – tiny house living (etc.)
- Journal entry 2 – summer to autumn 2014
- Polyphasic Sleep Log Day 39
- Journal entry 1 – Gtown townhouse / Transkei
- My Ph.D; This Blog
- Polyphasic Sleep Log – Day 33
- A Recipe and a Rant: Rocket Stove Whole-Wheat Non-(bloody)GM Brown Bread
- Polyphasic Sleep Log – Day 21
- Polyphasic Sleep Log – Day 15
- Ditch the ‘Bitches’: Save Stacks of Money… the (Radical) Permaculture Way.
- Polyphasic Sleep Log – Day 11
- Polyphasic Sleep Log – Day 6
- ‘Bathroom’ – shower and compost toilet
- Polyphasic Sleep Log – Day 2
- Rustic Permaculture Homestead: ‘Shed’ Development
- Polyphasic sleep log – evening of day 1
- Polyphasic Sleep Log: Morning One
- Song Lyrics by Cog: “I don’t listen to the government”
- THE University of Life? One? Really? (a.k.a. Changing Jobs)
- This Blog, This Project, This Process
- Need one say more?
- How’s this for a sweet potato…?
- Ye old coil trick (solar water heating phase 1)
- Growing garden(s)
- nice sky…
- Seedling nursery
- ‘The Sticks’ by Mother Mother
- School visit
- General update, and, if you’ll bare with it, some reflection ;-)
- ‘Hugels’ Gone Wild
- Quote for the day
- Taking Shape – ‘floor plan’ diagram
- Quick harvest pic…
- The start of (another) veggie garden
- Trellising Granadillas
- Cool cat…erpillar
- Bettie’s veggie patch
- The nursery – aka rubber ring of manure!
- Keyhole garden bed
- Square Foot Garden – 2 months later
- Square foot gardening – giving it a go
- Lyrics – Cire’s ‘Brand X Misery’
- It’s been a while…
- Walter Russel – inspiring quotes
- DIY heavy duty transport
- Berkley Composting
- Hugel beds
- Compost cooking itself…
- Gently weaving a wattle fence!
- Rocket stove at work
- The Start of compost, the hot-box way
- No through road… anymore!
- Camp!
- Preparing for a ‘roof’
- Start of camp
- Distractions!
- Trenches help!
- Wetlands – really wet wetlands!
- A wet start…
- Larf’s place
- London to North Scotland via Cornwall?
- Earthbag boundary wall SW London
- 5 hours with the trees
- Business suits may as well be bat suits.
- About YOU! (kinda)
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