December 2023
2 December: we opened Science of Sustainability as the journal focused on investigating Sustainability as a science, its methods, tools and critical reflections.
1 December: We read: Being Ecological by Timothy Morton.
And also: The Song of the Cell, by Siddhartha Mukherjee.
September 2023
10 September: We. read The Edge of the Plain by James Crawford. It is About How Borders Make and Break the World.
5 September: We read: Nassim Nicholas Taleb's book Antifragile, see Antifragility.
June 2023
We read: Libertad. Una Historia de la Idea by Josu de Miguel Bárcena.
July 2023
21 June: We discussed in-depth the Biomatrix Theory of systems with Elisabeth Dostal.
Apr 2023
March/April. We read The Earth Transformed by Peter Frankopan. The book shows that the rise and fall of empires, societies, and their power structures are a phenomenon of all times in human history. Famine, social conflict, and war have been too, because of it, as are prosperous times in living conditions, culture, power, architecture, and economic development.
Jan 2023
12 January: We read Noam Chomsky's How the World Works, on communicative and political framing of (mainly) US foreign policies. Narratives, Stories, and Facts in one.
9 January: we read Vaclav Smil's How the World Really Works. A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future on quantitative interdependencies between energy use, food systems, and materials needs in the context of the future of humanity.
1 January: We wrote about "Sustainability in 2022 - Lessons Learned". article .
See Also
My Earlier years' journals: Active Journal 2022