This article outlines a future where society re-energizes itself, in the
sense both of recapturing creative dynamism and of
applying creativity to meeting physical energy
needs. The article develops a
case study
of food, starting from the physical parameters of
combating the entropy expressed in the loss of soil structure, and
applies
this to urban food-growing. Drawing upon ‘real
utopias’ of existing practice, the author proposes a threefold
categorization
– subsistence plots, an urban forest, and an
ultra-high productivity sector – and emphasizes the emergent properties
of such
a complex system characterized by the ‘free energy’
of societal self-organization.
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