Cool Links

An ever-growing collection of websites that I find interesting. I have a strong preference for sites that are small, weird, handmade, utopian, and rooted in real world connection and solidarity. This list might seem quaint, but, in the days of monopolized internet, it's very needed.

Badly needed utopian visions of the future:

• Institute for Social Ecology: Popular education for a free and ecological society
• Usufruct Commons / Seriously Wrong
• Cooperation Jackson: Building a solidarity economy in Jackson, Mississippi, anchored by a network of cooperatives and worker-owned, democratically self-managed enterprises.

Despite what you may have heard, anarchists are the most caring and creative people:

• Living and Fighting: circulates a multiplicity of fragments from the so-called Southwest.
• Blacklidge Community Collective: a space in Tucson for experiments in playful autonomy, resilience, and sharing

Marvel at the beauty of the world:

• Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond: fantastic site and books from a local educator
• Mold Magazine
• Bartosz Ciechanowski: Wonderfully interactive explanations of technical concepts

Stop buying. Learn to do it yourself (and for each other):

• Low Tech Magazine
• Simplifier

Abandon capitalistic achievement to seek the freedom of play:

• 100rabbits
• The Creative Independent

There is some hope for technology:

• Dynamicland
• Permacomputing
• Conjure Utopia

Long for the yesterweb:

• Textfiles
• GifCities

Computers can make art if we show them how:

• Strudel
• Solving Sol
• Morphogenesis resources

Crafts pushed aside in the descent to rampant consumerism:

• Eva's Weaving

Misc

• Bread Web

Looking for more?

• Marginalia search engine
• Merveilles Webring