PACIFIC FRINGE

Pacific Fringe is a platform for looking into the future. Research in history, sociology and cosmology is offered for those concerned with sustainability... Astro Family and Thebra are attempts to model our present imperatives beginning a new millenium shifting from the cowboy frontier economy to the spaceship economy of the future. Biomimicry and Natural Capitalism (book reviews) are two hopeful attempts to model sustainable room to grow. Is it wrong? looks at how increasing global integration is changing our moral context in the global village... Three newspaper articles together postulate a frog in boiling water problem with our western democratic governance systems. Balance looks at salmon time and how our political vision ignores the past and discounts the future. Tyranny is a portrait of our service economy as straight jacket - where needed change cannot impact the economy by 10%?, 2%? Talk And Log introduces path dependency, sunk costs and lock-in; even if we know that we are..