In an early genesis of post-carbon living in 2008 we were influenced by a project called the “Yellow House“. It was a run-down, former council-house, in Oxford that had under-gone a drastic make-over to make it a (self-styled) “environmental dream … Continue reading
Category Archives: Psychology
ISBN 978-0-19-933766-8. “Reason in a Dark Time – why the struggle against climate change failed – and what it means for our future” by Dale Jamieson was published by Oxford University Press in 2014. Given the level of praise heaped … Continue reading
ISBN: 978-0-241-95448-5. “What Money Can’t Buy – The Moral Limits to Markets” by Michael J. Sandel was published by Penguin Books in 2013 (from an original by Allen Lane in Great Britain in 2012). If the accolades that litter the covers (and … Continue reading
ISBN 978 1 8496 4748 9. “The Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims” was written by Nathan Lean in 2012 and published by Pluto Press. This book is from a largely North American perspective with a single … Continue reading
“Fascism is coming; probably a slimy Anglicized form of Fascism, with cultured policemen instead of Nazi Gorillas and the lion and the unicorn instead of the swastika.” Thus it was that George Orwell neatly captured the very way our culture … Continue reading
ISBN 978-0-713-99797-2. “Armed Madhouse” by Greg Palast was published by Allen Lane/Penguin in 2006. Palast by now needs little introduction. We reviewed his 2003 “The Best Democracy Money Can Buy” and “Vultures’ Picnic” from 2011. “Armed Madhouse” straddles the two … Continue reading