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Recent Posts

  • 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: 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 (Short Inspirational Films)
  • Podcast: Dan Cornick (Away With The Fairies and Amatola Trails, Hogsback)
  • Podcast: Angie and Rod – Learning Clan
  • Podcast: Bert Olivier on all things Philosophy
  • Article: “To learn healing knowledge”: Philosophy, psychedelic studies and transformation
  • Podcast / Talk / Lecture: Gil Germain, Thinking About Technology
  • Podcast: Sean Martin on Blockchain
  • Article: Placing the ecological crisis in a broader context – the Orphic and the Promethean
  • Podcast: Riley Thompson on Gender Transition, Art, and more
  • Linux Mint 19 installation, and getting WINE to work
  • Podcast: Bert Olivier on Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, The Ecological Crisis, Capitalism, and More
  • 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 on Vipassana meditation and walking 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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