As an antidote to the shortcomings of the current Auckland Plan 2050, I am going to continue the project I began 10 years ago - a Dark Green Vision for Tāmaki Makaurau. I invite others to contribute.
As industrial society declines and falls, what to do? One of the most helpful responses to that question that i've encountered comes from John Michael Greer. Here it is, straight from the source.
What do we hope for? To continue as we have always done? To escape this world’s predicament? For ‘solutions’ that maintain our privileged convenience? All that is hopeless.
The Want Project will be a journey back in time, peeling back and examining layer after layer of our consumerist culture to understand how we got here - and how to adjust to life in an age of limits.