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..."the reason they pick up a book is to find solutions. And this is why I am so excited about Adam Greenfield’s Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in a World on Fire. Here is a book as a toolbox to build actual, hard-tacks answers to the crisis of the Long Emergency."
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/verso-book-club
£1.50 eBook price until August 14th!
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Finally getting around to reading #LifeHouse. The first introduction really lifted me up. I like the calm candor, the recognition of this wrongness we inhabit, the assurance that once you give up hoping that our broken systems of harm will fix the future, there is meaning and purpose and joy in building for the future we really need.
Chapter 1 is like "I suspect some of you still have some residual hope lurking in there, let's take care of that." Breathe slow, it's just a book, I can do this...
What if we used old shopping malls as #LifeHouse locations? Ditto as ways to revitalise failing high streets.
@otfrom What sort of #LifeHouse stuff are you pondering?
Finding others to lifehosue with seems a good plan, and presumably if it evolves in a direction that doesn't suit the Rotarians then you and other interested folk could spin something out as a new thing then
I read @adamgreenfield's #Lifehouse book last year, and it's only getting more important a read as a pointer towards more positive ways to respond to the polycrisis.
I blogged my "dog-eared" pages, the sections I highlighted, last night.
Getting to the bit about the #Lifehouse concept itself in @adamgreenfield's book and (from the POV of being 13 years and one pandemic into building something resembling one) thinking that the space and tools are the easy part. It's (as ever) the people, the social, and small-p political parts that are hard.
Maybe just for me, although that avoiding of explicit ideology has been a conscious choice to try to build a consensus institution/scene/whatever-DoES-is
Looks timely, anyone here read it?
"A Lifehouse is an institution at the heart of each neighborhood that responds to the terrifying reality of climate collapse in our own communities"
#Lifehouse
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2536-lifehouse
Just a heads up for folks in #Bristol and thereabouts: we are *all systems go* for our rescheduled #Lifehouse talk at Bookhaus, Tuesday the 10th of September at 6:00 pm. SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY! https://www.bookhausbristol.com/events/#e111178
@remotevoices Found your toot through the hashtag.
About a month ago, I asked my local library system to purchase #Lifehouse by #AdamGreenfield and they did!
Adam's new book Lifehouse came out on July 9th. Subtitled "taking care of ourselves in a world on fire". A culmination of his thinking on community, mutual aid, his involvment with occupy, and the like over the course of years. Given the themes of my story, and how the mirror my understanding of the idea of a lifehouse, I couldn't not include a reference.
#gallus #lifehouse #AdamGreenfield #community
@otfrom interesting question. In my case I found some other like-minded folk and we started @DoESLiverpool
Take the Internet approach: small pieces, loosely-joined.
Liverpool has a bunch (more than listed, but COVID stymied me expanding it) of different and slightly-overlapping (in folk as well as geography or activities) groups/orgs: http://www.mcqn.net/mcfilter/archives/liverpool/liverpoolhannahlinks.html
So join something already if there's lots of overlap with your aims/interests, otherwise add to the diversity of options
Found a nice spot for lunch and a bit of reading earlier.
#Lifehouse thoughts
- Great discussion of Occupy Sandy, BPP Survival Programs, Greek Solidarity Clinics, Feminist Struggle in Rojava
- Certainly grasps the intensity of the moment more appropriately than most books I've read lately
- Worth a read, will probably get copies for a couple folks
- I do wish it had more practical steps on how to actually going about establishing such a space but I understand that it's more about starting conversations than proscribing a solution