11:59 - 12:00 - 12:01

Våre ledere ber oss om å jobbe mer for å berge velferdsstaten i fremtiden. Samtidig har nordmenn hatt en eventyrlig vekst i materiell levestandard og mange ønsker å gjøre det motsatte, nemlig ha mer fri med familie og venner. Kan vi det? Hva skjer med velferdsstaten hvis vi gjør det?

http://www.nrk.no/ytring/kor-lenge-varar-ein-gard_-1.11296645

Norsk jordbruk er mange bekker små og ikkje ei stor å. Det må Sylvi Listhaug snart forstå.

Leaders richly rewarded for mediocrity cannot be relied upon when things go wrong

– Det særegne med menneskeheten er lagarbeid. Vi har alltid levd i grupper. Historien om vår evolusjon er en historie om samarbeid, ikke om konkurranse.

- Johnny Ødegård, direktør i Tine Rådgivning

En tegneserie om bofellesskap. Tegnet av Esben Titland. Manus av Esben Titland, Arild Eriksen og Joakim Skajaa. - Cartoon about the possibilities of co-housing. drawn by Esben Titland and written by Esben Titland, Arild Eriksen and Joakim Skajaa.

Ekteparet Mons Lie (76) og Ane Hoel (69) får ferske egg hver morgen, dyrker sine egne grønnsaker og nå vil de lage sin egen strøm.

Jeg trives veldig bra allerede. Jeg bor på hytta, og kan gå på ski til jobben.

But getting “too big to fail” is precisely what's going on all over the place today. (The banking crisis is a case in point.) “Modernity,” Taleb says, is dominated by a culture of specialists who are rewarded for excessive intervention, and for predictions that are routinely worthless. The big reward for them is not in creating antifragility or even resilience, but stability — or, more accurately, its appearance. Then, when disaster strikes, these specialists, who have very little “skin in the game,” pay a very small price, if any. The result is that there is no learning. We go back to making structures that are “too big to fail.”

She argues that this decay threatens to create a dark age unless the trends are reversed. Jacobs characterizes a dark age as a "mass amnesia" where even the memory of what was lost is lost.

  Vårt klare mål er å skape en kraft her i landet, som kan og skal spre seg langt utenfor Norges grenser slik at vi ikke bare får norske bønder til å stå sammen, men bønder til å stå sammen på tvers av landegrensene i et felles krav om rettferdighet. Der noen går foran, kommer mange etter. Derfor er det viktig at noen bønder og noen bondeaksjoner blir eksempler for verden. Vi har tenkt å bli akkurat dét

Open Source Ecology (OSE) is a network of farmers, engineers and supporters, whose main goal is the eventual manufacturing of the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS). As described by Open Source Ecology "the GVCS is an open technological platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a small civilization with modern comforts.

There's an irony behind the latest efforts to extend human life: It's no picnic to be an old person in a youth-oriented society. Older people can become isolated, lacking meaningful work and low on funds. In this intriguing talk, Jared Diamond looks at how many different societies treat their elders -- some better, some worse -- and suggests we all take advantage of experience.

-Buckminster Fuller

Brave New World Revisited  was a non-fiction work in which Huxley considered whether the world had moved toward or away from his vision of the future from the 1930s. He believed when he wrote the original novel that it was a reasonable guess as to where the world might go in the future. In Brave New World Revisited, he concluded that the world was becoming like Brave New World much faster than he originally thought.