Posts | Ed Dowding

Feb 2025 Jumping straight to the H3

Oct 2024 Business & Childhood

Dec 2023 American exceptionalism, revisited

Oct 2022 Rail strikes

Jun 2022 A "one-hit-wonder party" to solve First Past The Post

Jun 2022 Where does the civic get its power from?

May 2022 Regulating free speech on Twitter

Dec 2021 Things I've been reading: 26th December 2021

Oct 2021 Things I've been reading: 24th October 2021

Sep 2021 Things I've been reading: 19th September 2021

Aug 2021 Things I've been reading: 4th August 2021

Aug 2021 Things I've been reading: 1st August 2021

Jul 2021 Things I've been reading: 18th July 2021

Jul 2021 Things I've been reading: 4th July 2021

May 2021 Things I've been reading: 30th May 2021

Jan 2021 Things I've been reading: 17th January 2021

Jan 2021 Things I've been reading: 3rd January 2021

Dec 2020 Things I've been reading: 30th December 2020

Dec 2020 Some of the books I've read in 2020

Dec 2020 Things I've been reading: 27th December 2020

Dec 2020 Things I've been reading: 20th December 2020

Aug 2020 Things I've been reading: 16th August 2020

Jun 2020 Dowding''s Law: "The United States is such an outlier that it should not be used as a normative data-point.

Apr 2020 What open source hardware do we need next?

Apr 2020 Civilisation Continuity Planning

Aug 2019 Love: is it the absence of fear?

Aug 2019 Things I've been reading (March 2018 - now)

Jun 2019 Begin.

Jun 2019 Another referendum on Europe won’t solve the problems we all feel. It’s time to create a better democracy.

Jun 2019 Things customer service people should never say: "I''d suggest posting this in the Ideas Forum

Feb 2019 I'll make them wild.

Feb 2019 Putting the Green back in the Greenback - Evolving capitalism for the 21st century

Jan 2019 137 years of climate anomolies

Jan 2019 Some books I've enjoyed

Jan 2019 Monarch butterfly numbers fell by 86% last year alone

Jan 2019 The Shepard Tone Economy

Jan 2019 Podcasts I subscribe to

Jan 2019 The lessons from suffering

Jan 2018 5 killer-apps to take blockchain mainstream

Jan 2018 Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

Jan 2018 A Tragedy of the Commons

Jan 2018 Anybody can become angry - that is easy

Jan 2018 Authoritarians tell the truth about the future. Authoritarians lie about the past.

Dec 2017 Exponential organisations

Dec 2017 This town ain't big enough for the both of us - or .. oh. wait yes it is!

Dec 2017 Procedural language: The importance of going through the motions.

Oct 2017 That'll do.

Oct 2017 Man's search for meaning

Oct 2017 Is the UK the best country in the world?

Sep 2017 Migration policy suggestions from "The Strange Death of Europe

Sep 2017 SpaceTech

Aug 2017 What rules should govern AI?

Aug 2017 71 words for love

Jul 2017 The unbearable lightness of politics

Jul 2017 God helped society put its thumb on the scales

Jun 2016 A Europe to die for.

Aug 2015 Do smart people change faster?

Jun 2015 Mastery, Autonomy, Purpose & Utopia

May 2015 Customer service times

Mar 2015 You're 55 Times More Likely to be Killed by a Police Officer than a Terrorist

Mar 2015 The peace of the lobotomised or the peace of the contended?

Jan 2015 Fossil fuel vs Renewable subsidies

Nov 2014 Which fossil fuel companies are most responsible for climate change?

Nov 2014 10 things I'd like the Green Party to do

Oct 2014 Purpose matters.

Sep 2014 Now for some thoughts on sheep.

Sep 2014 Guess who's an ENTP?

May 2014 I believe in dog. And other correlations.

Apr 2014 90% ape, 9% human, 1% angel.

Apr 2014 This is a peaceful blue planet.

Apr 2014 A few choice quotes found of late

Apr 2014 What is social enterprise?

Mar 2014 Historical re-imagining

Mar 2014 The challenge of staying positive

Mar 2014 Clear message to the police

Mar 2014 EU sort of forces companies to report on social and environmental impact

Mar 2014 Life is too important for obvious news

Feb 2014 This won't hurt a bit, but you may feel a bit of a prick.

Jan 2014 WebMind's webpage to raise funds for his mission to civilise humanity

Dec 2013 I've decided I'm in favour of NHS privatisation.

Dec 2013 Someone forgot that we're supposed to be amazing.

Nov 2013 Post-materialist delight

Nov 2013 Self-Discipline in 5 Sentences

Nov 2013 If we can imagine it, we can do it. Right? Right?! RIGHT!

Nov 2013 The social tipping-point is 10%. But there's a catch...

Nov 2013 The status update I never write

Nov 2013 The changing nature of human communication. And all the cool things which happen now.

Nov 2013 Reincarnation

Nov 2013 I love the NHS but I'm about to have a micro-rant.

Nov 2013 Great and glorious

Oct 2013 Call of Duty.

Oct 2013 Democracy is the best I can think of right now

Oct 2013 Nobody's come up with a good alternative to capitalism..

Oct 2013 Asking the right questions

Oct 2013 Government ideologically supports nuclear power.

Sep 2013 Obama is Outsmarting Everyone and Winning on Syria Without Firing a Shot

Jul 2013 Blue sky statistics

Jul 2013 Excerpts from John Ashton’s Alternative Mansion House speech

Jun 2013 What happened to political leadership?

Jun 2013 Do-It-Yourself Brain Stimulation Has Scientists Worried - Slashdot

Jun 2013 Superior orders

Jun 2013 Evidence-based policies

Jun 2013 A film about The Prince and Global Sustainability

Jun 2013 A speech by HRH The Prince of Wales to the Future for Food Conference, Georgetown University, Washington DC

Jun 2013 If Day

Jun 2013 The Great Feast" - TEDxOxbridge

Jun 2013 There are two kinds of failure.

May 2013 Does your MP think a vote on Europe is the most important thing right now?

May 2013 At-a-glance: Queen' Speech 2013

May 2013 The Bottled Water Challenge - your opinions sought!

May 2013 Petition fatigue: in defence of clicktivism.

Mar 2013 Market folly

Jan 2013 The 32 most alarming charts from the government's climate change report | Grist

Jan 2013 The world is on track for disaster. Who wants to buy a farm?

Jan 2013 The Generals by Shel Silverstein

Jan 2013 The social tipping point is 8%

Jan 2013 The Mountain & the Sky

Dec 2012 Building on allotments

Dec 2012 The Quantity Theory of Insanity.

Dec 2012 The power of pure imagination

Dec 2012 Apologising to Wonga

Dec 2012 Dark Skies

Dec 2012 Debt forgiveness. For everyone. For ever.

Dec 2012 The Righteous Mind

Dec 2012 Please watch these two films.

Nov 2012 Staples To Offer 3D Printing Services

Nov 2012 Humanity has never faced such a bigger series of challenges….Just start

Nov 2012 The value in being together

Nov 2012 Somebody thought of it, and someone believed it" - a generation steps forward at London Sustainability Jam

Oct 2012 What resources do we have left? (A: not many)

Aug 2012 And this is only talking about cars

Jun 2012 15 Powerful Things Happy People Do Differently

May 2012 Maslow was so right.

Apr 2012 Let the river run

Apr 2012 Faults

Mar 2012 Views are my own

Mar 2012 Leaving behind earthly feelings

Feb 2012 Sustainable shipping

Jan 2012 Breathless with love for life.

Jan 2012 Declaration of the 99%

Dec 2011 Two more quotes from Forty days of Rain

Dec 2011 You can not EARN more than about £1m / year. Tops.

Dec 2011 A contract with our children.

Nov 2011 Permaculture principles

Nov 2011 Real democracy is rising on the horizon

Nov 2011 Top 5 reasons NOT to buy organic

Oct 2011 A 10% strike by the 99%?

Sep 2011 Untitled

Sep 2011 WeFirst Manifesto - Ten Core Beliefs

Sep 2011 Give And Take: a proposal for ad-hoc micro-volunteering

Sep 2011 The Food Movement: getting better or worse?

Sep 2011 UK's first local electronic currency

Sep 2011 Shades of green: should there be more organic licencing options?

Aug 2011 What motivates consumers to make ethically conscious decisions?

Aug 2011 UnLtd Futures

Aug 2011 The glorious future belongs to you, to me and to all of us. Look up.

Jul 2011 Federated networks of food providers

Jul 2011 The world's most incredible photo

Jul 2011 Link round up

Jun 2011 Solar is Ready Now

May 2011 Economic development not economic growth.

May 2011 Live a good life.

Mar 2011 It only takes a generation to redefine normal.

Mar 2011 Link round-up

Mar 2011 My MP strives for growth

Mar 2011 Tidy your <del>room</del> planet or else there will be no <del>pudding</del> Maldives.

Mar 2011 Skipping dinner

Mar 2011 We must cultivate our garden

Feb 2011 66 things to grow in any house

Feb 2011 With great power doesn't come great responsibility.

Feb 2011 Almost enough to make one optimistic

Feb 2011 Job vacancy: Are you passionate about rural communities?

Feb 2011 Kings Lynn incinerator & Zero Waste

Feb 2011 Organic is the only game in town. Get playing. Now.

Feb 2011 What's stopping progress?

Feb 2011 The nature of human change and the change of human nature.

Feb 2011 What is the Future of Food?

Feb 2011 Nothing Is As Powerful As An Idea Whose Time Has Come.

Feb 2011 Blogging from the Soil Association conference

Feb 2011 What's in a name?

Feb 2011 A developing lexicon

Feb 2011 It's spring. Plant something. Feel good.

Feb 2011 When is food security going to become an issue for you, too?

Feb 2011 Pay more for your food

Jan 2011 How to make your savings work harder

Jan 2011 Do you dig it? How to grow more vegetables

Jan 2011 Fish, Forests, and the 21st Century commons

Jan 2011 Superstruct future forecasting game

Jan 2011 Gaming for a better world.

Jan 2011 Reasons to be cheerful: Peak Phosphorous

Jan 2011 Give me half a chance and I'd be taking off my clothes and living in the jungle

Jan 2011 Time to use those 'insurance files' on Rupert Murdoch?

Jan 2011 Today's hero: Mark Kennedy

Jan 2011 EU organic food push

Dec 2010 First petrol, then energy – now food prices skyrocket

Dec 2010 Twixtmas

Dec 2010 Round of good things this week

Dec 2010 Human Culture through language

Dec 2010 Hi, my name's Ed, and I'm an ENTP

Dec 2010 Good for nothing

Dec 2010 The Good Gym

Dec 2010 Wikileaks: Website of the knowledge of good and evil

Dec 2010 I Wish This Was

Dec 2010 Neo-Classical elements: Time, money, energy, politics

Dec 2010 Merchant Bank that threatened to leave UK 'just went round corner and waited' | NewsBiscuit

Nov 2010 Working hours? They are just so last season. | Forum For The Future

Nov 2010 Get on the bus already

Nov 2010 FARM:shop

Nov 2010 Eric Cantona joins in calling for economic change

Nov 2010 Funniest ever 'Lost' sign

Nov 2010 CDSM CE

Nov 2010 Wellbeing

Nov 2010 Is this evidence that we can see the future?

Nov 2010 Contentious post about tuition fees

Nov 2010 Global Warming' may still be a problem

Nov 2010 Wealth creators, or concentrations of power?

Nov 2010 Facebook relationship data

Nov 2010 How do we get the right answer?

Nov 2010 8 rules or managing the commons

Nov 2010 Shaking it up, Abbey style.

Oct 2010 Nature's gift: How much is the ecosystem worth?

Oct 2010 Finite and Infinite Games

Oct 2010 How to make a fast buck in the green economy

Oct 2010 Top Ten Constituents of New Commons Economy

Oct 2010 vlogbrothers

Oct 2010 Open-Access Public Workshops

Oct 2010 Supporting the vitality of the Commons

Oct 2010 Help fund the Do Lectures by designing a poster

Oct 2010 Change the System, Not the Climate

Oct 2010 Good Guide

Oct 2010 I Love Charts

Oct 2010 Urban Farming

Oct 2010 Change your search engine, save the world

Oct 2010 World greenhouse gas emissions

Oct 2010 9 things I'd do if I were in government right now

Oct 2010 How did it come to this?

Oct 2010 Solitude

Sep 2010 Turn off your unused mobile phone charger and save equivalent energy for 3 weeks of TV.

Sep 2010 Money says 'no'. Money is broken. Keeps saying 'no' to everything sensible, and 'yes' to lots of stupid things.

Sep 2010 Thank you, Waitrose! Free, expensive, friendly, and ethical.

Aug 2010 Year 34: we have sighted land

Aug 2010 Boomerang trade

Aug 2010 4 steps to handling emotional or conflict conversations

Aug 2010 The TED Commandments

Aug 2010 Problems with paradigm change

Aug 2010 Mottainai

Jul 2010 The one that got away

Jul 2010 Bottled water is the answer to global warming

Jul 2010 A Visual History of the American Presidency

Jul 2010 Consumers demand social goods, and no one's realised it yet

Jul 2010 Art of the Start

Jun 2010 Don't do anything that isn't play

Jun 2010 Probably the most awesome thing you will see this week

Jun 2010 A formula for co-operation

Jun 2010 20 get rich quick schemes

Jun 2010 Two great new London Maps

Jun 2010 It's all too beautiful

Jun 2010 Robert's Rules of Order: Quick Reference

Jun 2010 It's not BP's fault, it's yours

Jun 2010 3 neat business ideas

Jun 2010 Vatican reaches out to atheists

May 2010 Is there a useful time to have money?

May 2010 Memento Mori

May 2010 Kurt Vonnegut

May 2010 French farmers turn Champs-Elysees into huge farm

May 2010 10 Things I Learned From Meditation

May 2010 The Afghan Conflict - A Map of Possible Scenarios

May 2010 How to Grow More Vegetables (than you ever thought possible on less land that you can imagine)

May 2010 World War III - And so it begins...

May 2010 BBC News - New government: Reaction in quotes

Apr 2010 Farm life

Apr 2010 We are now a 3 party country

Apr 2010 Growth or no-growth?

Apr 2010 Travel Forever and Live Rent Free

Apr 2010 FarmSubsidy.org

Apr 2010 Principle of double effect

Apr 2010 Design for America - govt. of/by/for the people

Apr 2010 God is a stress reaction

Apr 2010 Looking for a happy, well paid job? Become a gardener

Apr 2010 Kim Stanley Robinson on BldgBlog

Apr 2010 AC Grayling

Apr 2010 Turn an old plastic bottle into a 50W lightbulb

Mar 2010 10 steps to ideas that win

Mar 2010 The UK's renewable energy is a national shame

Mar 2010 James Murdoch vs Reason

Feb 2010 How Different Groups Spend Their Day

Feb 2010 Lexicon of cooperation

Feb 2010 Green Revolution in India Wilts as Subsidies Backfire

Feb 2010 Ethical bottled water is an oxymoron

Feb 2010 A farm for the future

Feb 2010 Nation Realizes Money Just A Symbolic, Mutually Shared Illusion

Feb 2010 What do we call ourselves?

Feb 2010 Two ideas for storing soup

Feb 2010 Hubris and humus - Lessons from the garden

Feb 2010 Gardening is great

Feb 2010 Our first few days at Coueillas

Jan 2010 Haiti is no big deal.

Jan 2010 Desire influences visual perception

Jan 2010 2010: The year we make compost.

Jan 2010 Middle class virtue

Jan 2010 The Postcode Paper - welcome to your neighbourhood

Jan 2010 Quantitive psychology

Jan 2010 What do we do now?

Dec 2009 Israeli organ donors to get transplant priority

Dec 2009 Link roundup

Dec 2009 How valuable are you?

Dec 2009 Royal Mail strikes - a postie's perspective

Dec 2009 Link round-up

Dec 2009 Swiss minarets - a defence, not an attack

Nov 2009 Things are looking good for GoodBreaks

Sep 2009 Heidi's Bar

Jul 2009 Dissolution of the Long Parliament

Jul 2009 Biological lego

Jun 2009 Divorce Rates

Jun 2009 The World According to Monsanto

Jun 2009 Going from good to bad.. shouldn't that be the other way around?

Jun 2009 Perception of time

Jun 2009 Horror of Kenya's 'witch' lynchings

Jun 2009 WWIII Propaganda

Jun 2009 Ways of considering society

Jun 2009 I have nothing to fear from a DNA database

Jun 2009 The Bible as a word cloud

Jun 2009 Money is getting in the way of progress

Jun 2009 What are desirable net gains?

Jun 2009 Albert Schweitzer Quotes

Jun 2009 Housing on mars

Jun 2009 How to be Good

Jun 2009 Why are women injured in cycling accidents more than men?

Jun 2009 Backbars: Turn Headlines of Social Link Sites into Ambient Bar Charts

Jun 2009 Investing In Lawsuits Beats the Street

May 2009 Repurposing bikes

May 2009 This and that

May 2009 Another reason not to buy plastic bottled water, or plastic bottled anything for that matter.

May 2009 Orwell on Spring

May 2009 GiveWell

May 2009 Link roundup

May 2009 Link Round up

Apr 2009 Time & Space

Apr 2009 Pipped at the post to be an independent MEP ... this time

Apr 2009 ElectEd.in introductory speech

Apr 2009 TED is coming local!

Apr 2009 6 Reasons never to give up your biometric data or DNA

Apr 2009 Susan Boyle: the organic carrot of entertainment

Apr 2009 Own it!!" day -- make this YOUR cause

Apr 2009 DNA databases require so much regulation that abuse is inevitable.

Apr 2009 At last, Europe has become interesting

Apr 2009 We are six years away from an energy crisis

Apr 2009 Sacrifices on the alter of efficiency

Apr 2009 Better models: cars

Apr 2009 China suggests a new currency

Apr 2009 10 tips to bring economic life closer to our biological environment

Apr 2009 Links for the week

Apr 2009 How we measure progress and development

Apr 2009 Do we have enough rage?

Apr 2009 Journalism, not newspapers

Apr 2009 Twitter will not grow much larger than it is now

Apr 2009 Market failures: bridges vs tunnels

Apr 2009 The old models don't work

Apr 2009 So much for the green economy...

Apr 2009 What cost the bailouts?

Mar 2009 How to make things better

Mar 2009 An enormous civilisation discovered in the Amazon

Feb 2009 A paradox involving trees

Jan 2009 The Buckminster Fuller Challenge

Jan 2009 Best playlists eva!

Jan 2009 Tied up in knots

Jan 2009 STILL not going to America

Jan 2009 Knitting night

Jan 2009 Relationships, made code

Jan 2009 Biggest news of the decade: Body repair 'could be ramped up

Dec 2008 LoveNinjas

Dec 2008 Recession is a test of character" -- Gordon Brown

Dec 2008 It's all fucking fucked

Dec 2008 Recession

Dec 2008 DNA / Europe rocks the free world!

Dec 2008 Peace breaks out

Dec 2008 Darwin spins again

Nov 2008 The slippery slope of evil

Nov 2008 Left, right, and centering

Nov 2008 Make/Shift Shelving System

Nov 2008 If only...

Nov 2008 Economic Reform

Oct 2008 Things to do with my life

Oct 2008 Nudge: Rational man

Oct 2008 The third way

Oct 2008 ID cards

Oct 2008 Some offers for y'all

Oct 2008 98 months

Sep 2008 Artemis Quadrathlon

Sep 2008 The modern shape of Universities

Sep 2008 There's going to be a bloody revolution

Sep 2008 Democracy becomes a plebocratic

Aug 2008 30% of the workforce will retire in 10 years.

Aug 2008 Driving abroad

Aug 2008 What is my role?

Aug 2008 Last FM

Aug 2008 Effective States

Aug 2008 Oxytocin news

Jul 2008 10 skills to succeed at almost anything

Jul 2008 Best chat up line ever

Jul 2008 Everyone's a VIP to someone

Jun 2008 Book, er, prize?

Jun 2008 Summit findings

Jun 2008 Life is great. It really is.

Jun 2008 Look how much bad shit there is going on.

Jun 2008 Read regularly and often

Jun 2008 debate

May 2008 Umbrella

May 2008 It's in the mix

May 2008 CCTV does not work

Apr 2008 Motto

Apr 2008 People in Bars

Mar 2008 I'll bet we won't all get a phone call from Condi

Mar 2008 Allegience to the Queen

Mar 2008 How to prepare children for the future?

Mar 2008 How to sound more important

Mar 2008 Links for today

Feb 2008 The Ancient Greek economy

Feb 2008 Love

Dec 2007 Innovation at its very best

Nov 2007 Symbols

Nov 2007 Planks and specks

Oct 2007 How to get things done

Sep 2007 Comedowns

Sep 2007 Acupuncture

Jun 2007 mindolympics

Jun 2007 How to tell if something is a good idea

May 2007 Friends will be the death of you

May 2007 Advice in 7 words or less

May 2007 Sapid

May 2007 Draw a pig

May 2007 Termagant

May 2007 Placebo