Category: Blog
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Carlsbad Caverns National Park
(View the full album here) Carlsbad Caverns is an amazing place, just like all the national parks are. I was excited to learn that they take masks and social distancing very seriously. Everyone must have masks on everywhere in the park, even outside or down in the cave. Very cool and practical dedication to safety.…
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Session 4
February 17th Session Four: Reducing Social and Racial Inequality: Basic Income, Universal Health Care, New Deal Type Stimulus Package for Job Creation, Affordable Housing, Eliminating Student Debt, Reparations, The People’s Budget This session will focus on the increasing social inequality in the United States and its consequences. We will be guided by the following questions: Notes…
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Prompt: Is psychology a real science?
Psychology can not be a “real science” until it acknowledges the simple truth that it is not making objective, deductive claims. In reality it is making inductive claims based on limited data. This distinction is vital. Throughout history psychologists have reached countless absurd conclusions which have done enormous damage precisely because they failed to adequately…
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Session 3
Session Three: Healthy Cities Movement Framework and Information for Assignment #1 Due March 3, 2021 This session will focus on the “healthy cities movement”, a long-term international development initiative sponsored by the World Health Organization that places health high on the agenda of decision makers and promotes comprehensive local strategies for health protection and sustainable…
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Communal Effort
In my capacity as regional co-chair of Burners Without Borders, I once asked some of my peers if there is a manual somewhere for how to respond to disasters. That’s what we do. We respond to disasters and provide things like shelter and critical infrastructure. Unfortunately there is currently no repository of tools and strategies…
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NomadPedia
I have done a great deal of personal research and interviews with people in experimental and improvised communities about how they address individual-scale solutions to infrastructure problems. I’ve taken countless pages of notes and countless photos of the examples. As regional co-chair of Burners Without Borders, I am also working on deploying these solutions at…
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Resource Sovereignty
This is a project I’ve been working on for some years which is slowly evolving with experimentation and research. The basic idea is that small groups and communities should be able to reach a point where they can provide for their own needs without new inputs and while managing and minimizing their outputs. I call…
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Moving Cabin
I built a moving cabin which is basically just a custom self-sufficient self-powered rv that I’m using to travel safely and conduct my research on improvised infrastructure, community resilience, sustainability and other related topics. Check it out at https://movingcabin.com
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Taos: Earthship Biotecture
is that the roof is designed to catch water and funnel it through simple gravel filters into large cisterns buried adjacent to the home. Here you can see a photo of the actual roof, showing how it catches the water and routes it into the cistern. This is the first-stage filtration system. The water is…
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Session 2
Session Two: Principles, Values, and the Future of Cities February 3rd Review What makes a good city Thomas Affordable housing Diverse forms of travel Actively democratic Environmental accountability Mariegail Equitable distribution of services and goods like healthcare and housing Sustainability Walkability Everyone’s basic needs are met Tammy Accessible library system Accessible public transit Affordable housing…