Author Archives: marco

Clean air & clean water, safe food, affordable shelter & healthcare, quality communal spaces, lifelong learning opportunities, more leisure time, universal rights and freedoms. Are we on the path to achieve any these goals? Of course not, it is not even clear whether any of the supposed “leaders” have any interest in any of this.Continue reading “Imagining a different future”

If our species is to escape alive from this mess, it will be philosophers and artists leading the way, not scientist and engineers. “We’re told, often enough, that as a species we are poised on the edge of the abyss. It’s possible that our puffed-up, prideful intelligence has outstripped our instinct for survival and theContinue reading “The answers are within.”

The foundation for successful communal living has always been trust, the first prehistoric settlements had family units at their core, having lots of children was a way to increase the potential of the settlement, while at the same time maintaining a high level of trust. Uniting the community there were those family bonds and whateverContinue reading “Intentional communities”

Different buzzwords come up when discussing permaculture and alternative lifestyles, sustainability, self sufficiency, resilience, self reliance. What does a word like sustainability mean exactly? It means that whatever it is we do, we must be able to sustain the doing of it, everyone understands what this means in the context of resource extraction for example,Continue reading “About sustainability.”

And especially why Northern Thailand. To be clear, ending up living in Thailand for nearly fifteen years was for me more the outcome of random events than the culmination of a well executed plan. No country is perfect in every respect and Thailand has of course its own set of problems, I am talking fromContinue reading “Why Thailand?”

The work on the house started on Oct 5, the previous year some preparatory concrete works had been done and we started by adding to the foundations a little to accommodate a modified design, which was no longer based on container boxes. The work was completed mostly by a team of two construction workers, withContinue reading “New House @ Mae Mut”