How Social Housing Can Help Us Face the Climate Crisis — From Vienna, to Our Local Neighborhoods
How are we supposed to transform our economies, when we're stuck working 40 hours per week?
From Vienna, to Singapore, to the changing worlds around us, explore what it could look like for us to adopt social housing in our own backyards and communities ... giving us time to grow food, build systems and infrastructure, shape renewable energy systems, move to new forms of production, and manage and steward local landscapes, to get what we need locally. And how social housing, could lead to other major changes as well ...
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Acknowledgements
Kirsty Lang's writing on the Vienna housing system: https://www.ft.com/content/05719602-89c6-4bbc-9bbe-5842fd0c3693
Julia Steinberger's work on "Decent Living with Minimum Energy": https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378020307512?via%3Dihub#b0145
Chris Baulman and Alexander Baumann's work on the paradox of housing and degrowth
Peter Dynes on repeated calls to scale down our economies
MEER and Peter Yao on locked-in warming
Rhodri for sharing the information about CO2-linked plant malnutrition: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/11/221103120048.htm
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's stories and perspectives from "As We Have Always Done": https://www.leannesimpson.ca/book/as-we-have-always-done
Kyle Whyte's perspectives and research: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2514848618777621?journalCode=ene
Learning about subsistence cultures from many voices in the Global South and Indigenous communities
Kris De Decker's work on Low Tech Magazine: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2021/03/urban-fish-ponds-low-tech-sewage-treatment-for-towns-and-cities.html
Cory Doctorow's explanation of England's Enclosure Act on the Douglas Rushkoff/Team Human podcast
David Graeber for perspectives on jubilee and cultural experimentation
Donella Meadows for highlighting the importance of changing the way we see
Daniel Nichanian's reporting on ballot referendums to cancel medical debt
Max Ajl's work in "A People's Green New Deal": https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48775
The People's Agreement of Cochabamba: (https://pwccc.wordpress.com/support/)
And many more influences be thanked and named, in a coherent way! #housing #neighborhood #economics #climatechange #government #degrowth #politics #education
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