Featured Shift Magazine Articles:
Justin Nigh kicks off SHIFT’s new Day in the Life of a Downshifter column by letting us in on some of the secrets of his own downshifted life.
Read MoreWith information reaching saturation point it can be hard to know where to start with your to-watch list. SHIFT’s Movies that Matter film reviews help you decide what’s worthy of your precious time.
Read MoreKari McGregor delves into our love-affair with labour-saving technologies, and questions the extent to which our attempts at reducing our workload have really made our lives better.
Read MoreCarolyn Baker’s upcoming book, Love in the Age of Ecological Apocalypse, is due to hit bookstore shelves in March 2015. Meanwhile, SHIFT readers are treated to a sneak-preview….
Read MoreHere we devote a little attention to some of the unsung heroes of low-tech innovation that have qualitatively improved lives worldwide beyond measure, and in some cases have saved many as well.
Read MoreSean Crawley unpacks our culture’s technophile attitude toward innovation and the notion of ‘progress’, and considers which elements of technology we really should consider integral to our survival.
Read MoreDave Pollard critiques the often false sense of hope that technological innovation brings, and considers how life will look after the age of oil is over.
Read MoreAn academic who doesn’t stake his career on pleasing the establishment, Ozzie Zehner dares to put forth a down to earth and rigorously scientific response to our culture’s obsession with technological fixes.
Read MoreAnneke Vo examines the social media revolution and asks whether it has fulfilled its promise to connect us and make our lives more efficient, or whether it has added to our stress.
Read MoreTheo Kitchener explores practical ways to kickstart the resilient economy of the future, using dormant superannuation funds to leverage sustainable, local businesses.
Read MoreGuy McPherson takes aim at the most grandiose technological fix in human history: geoengineering the climate.
Read MoreDave Gardner examines the allure of the techno-fix, the law of unintended consequences, and our very definition of ‘progress’.
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