Lifehouse
Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire

Exceptional and necessary reading. I loved so much of it, made so many notes, learned so much, and amassed so much hope. One star substracted for the concept of lifehouses inevitably having to deal with suppression by force being given pretty short shrift compared to the rest of the important concep......more

Extremely readable argument for what Greenfield sees as the sensible place to put our energy in the face climate catastrophe: strategic mutual care, in a federation sort of way. Now I'm hungry for real-life reports on how this works. Who do I talk to actually about putting solar generators at the ch......more

Adam Greenfield is optimistic. Or at least he has written an optimistic book. What else could he do, faced with our looming global Long Emergency? If you're going to be pessimistic, then you just chuck it all and start drinking heavily. That doesn't make much of a book. So, I could quibble with many......more

"The mutual aid slogan has it that 'audacity is our capacity.' The French Jesuit (and philosopher) Michel de Certeau suggests that the powerless must always 'vigilantly make use of the cracks that particular conjunctions open in the surveillance of the proprietary powers,'". I throughoutly enjoyed t......more

Decent introduction to the topic for those new to it. Some conflicting points. But I liked the use of the black panthers and northern Syrian fighting force examples.......more