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.
Rousing manifestos
- Being-us-festo: "We actually do have enough wrenches and enough food to go around, if we'd only let them go around."
- Lowtech Manifesto: "High technology doesn't mean high creativity. In fact sometimes the restrictions of a medium lead to the most creative solutions."
- A Soft Manifesto: "When you’re losing a game you don’t even want to play, or forcing a fit into a form you don’t want to be in, the best thing to do is to stop playing and go find your shape."
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