Groupe Intellex: Recent Episodes
David Brunnen
Fresh thinking for economic & societal development: David Brunnen on Municipal Autonomy, Intelligent Communities, Sustainability & Digital Challenges.
Unlike places with great monumental icons, Portchester's identity is revealed in the small places that sustain life and wellbeing
This is the seventh of a series published as Bruno's Blog by one of our local councillors
With mainstream media focused on the disastrous outcomes in Afghanistan, this brief episode asks what we can learn from that supposed failure
The transcript of this episode has been selected for the Governance list of articles by Group intellex on Medium
As a follow up the previous doom-laden episode, there is a need for an optimistic way forward
In this episode I point to useful texts that may inspire action - and particularly Jason Hickel's book 'Less Is More'
mainstream media routinely points to Climate Change for for today's disaster - but rarely point to the causes of that supposed cause
We should not say these awful things are caused by climate change
Some relationships we choose - but our relationship with the planet is not optional
Effective management demands respect, and yet, all too often we become serial abusers
Ecodide is proposed, like genocide, to be internationally outlawed But we are all, to some extent, guilty of Planet Abuse - and different places and people will recognise that in different ways
Less Is More - Jason Hickel ISBN 978-1-785 - 15249-8
The lockdown during this pandemic has given many of us ample time to catch up on some serious reading.
Readers might also explore works around the same theme by Tim Jackson
David Brunnen with a series of unhinged thoughts on Ecological Economics, Municipal Autonomy and anything else that is bugging him at the time. Publishing under the Groupe Intellex banner, David is based at Portchester - formerly a Roman settlement founded, apparently, to defend against invasion by the Saxons.