by Mark Swilling | Aug 15, 2019 | Blog
It is really hard to believe that it was twenty years ago that a small group of us started dreaming and imagining what eventually emerged as the Lynedoch EcoVillage and the Sustainability Institute. It always amuses me when people assume there was some sort of grand...
by Mark Swilling | Aug 13, 2019 | Blog
Whew, these past weeks have been a roller-coaster ride of note. They started with co-teaching the Globalization, Governance and Development module with Prof Gael Giraud, from Paris. Gael is an extra-ordinary mix: up until a few weeks ago he was Chief Economist of the...
by Mark Swilling | Jul 7, 2019 | Blog
I am excited this year to be co-teaching the upcoming Globalization and Development module (that is part of Masters Programme) with Prof Gaël Giraud, former Chief Economist of Agence Française de Développement (French Development Bank); Professor at Ecole Nationale...
by Mark Swilling | Jul 7, 2019 | Blog
I have just come across Raymond Suttner‘s obituary for my former teacher Peter Hudson. I had no idea he had passed away. He taught me during my Honours in Political Studies in 1981! I was the only student who took his course on Marxist theory. We used to meet at...
by Mark Swilling | Jul 7, 2019 | Blog
From FB post dated 18 May: Yho, two weeks of extra-ordinary interactions, learnings, debates and explorations – and now parking off in a French Chateau just south of Paris which is the home-base of a new initiative called the Transition Campus – a new...
by Mark Swilling | Jul 6, 2019 | Blog
Re-visiting Vauban – the famous eco-Neighborhood in Freiburg! Still looks amazing. Complete with a pic of my hero Varoufakis and a Green Party election poster that proclaims the market has failed!! +2 64Karima Brown,...
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