Category Archives: Features

INTERVIEW WITH TAMERA FOUNDER DIETER DUHM

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Tamera, a peace research centre in southern Portugal known for its developments in the areas of permaculture and solar technology, is based on a new concept of human co-habitation. We introduce a few of the basic thoughts in the following interview with Tamera founder Dieter Duhm. In Tamera technological advancements in decentralized energy and bio [...]
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Bike to Boom!

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Bike it to Boom this year and reduce your carbon footprint! Planes, trains and automobiles increase the impact of our carbon footprint. Take some footage along the way and we will share it with Boomers around the world by publishing it to the site! Eco-warrior, environmental activist and founder of the Global Wheeling Foundation (GWF), [...]
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SHIVA AND DIONYSUS

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Jamie Janover: Crossing the Event Horizon

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Jamie Janover presents the unified field theory of scientist, Nassim Haramein to explain the cohesive unification of every living entity to exist within the universe. In his discussion at Liminal Zone’s “Frontiers of Evolution”, Jamie takes us on a journey through the geometry of space-time. Explained in layman’s terms, we begin to understand the fundamental [...]
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The Trance-Cultural Tribe: A Neo-Hellenistic Hypothesis

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Psytrance parties are often seen as a brand new phenomenon. As the original creation of our particular age, but, at a closer look, many are the resonances we can identify with events and situations from the previous ages, disclosing to our eyes the fascinating view of history as a series of ever recurring cycles… In [...]
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The Religiosity Of Raving

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The concept of ‘ancient futurism’ has always been present in Boom philosophy. Take dance floor experience as an example: surrounded by high-tech sound stimuli often our collective unconscious leads us into a century-old mystical experience. We are inviting social scientists to write about the missing links that art and music bring back into our modern [...]
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It’s Time For A Better Future: Is Your Town A Transition Town?

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The end of cheap energy and climate change are two of the main challenges humankind is facing today and will probably mark the end of life as we know it. The Transition Towns Movement is spreading fast and is convinced that if we wait for governments to act, it will be too little, too late; [...]
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You Are What You Eat: Vibrating At A Higher Level With Raw Foods

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The source and quality of the food we eat is an issue on everybody’s mind. Raw Fooders say that by incorporating live foods and superfoods into our diets we can experience extra vitality, health and joy. We spoke to UK Raw Food pioneer Kate Magic and asked her what going raw is all about! Hi [...]
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The Aliens Are Back!

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Artwork by Xavi Fact: there would be no modern psy-trance and all its subgenres if goa trance had never come along. A whole generation of producers gave dance music one of its most prolific times and we are revisiting it at Boom 2010 with a series of special shows of both retrospective live acts and [...]
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Pachamama Honoured By The Ecuadorian Constitution

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Ecuador passed a revolutionary constitution that granted rights to nature. Months have passed and there have been no repercussions on both the mainstream media and in western world societies on a breakthrough law as important as the human rights. In 1948, the UN defined our rights as humans. Sixty years later, in September 2008, Ecuador [...]
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Is it Possible To Have Sustainable Food Production?

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In the project Food Göteborg 2050 scenarios are being developed for a sustainable foodproduction and supply chain through a methodology called backcasting. It is impossible to keep the current status of food production. Food being produced on an industrial methodology where distribution, financial rates and the ratio between offer and demand creates social gapes when [...]
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The Esteroids Of The Economy Of the World Are Burning

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The growth economy is failing and we have to attempt a steady-state economy. For four decades, the econimist Herman Daly has worked tirelessly to challenge the growth dogma that modern society has so enthusiastically imbibed. Publishing several books and more than 100 articles, Daly has even tried to effect change from within, spending six frustrating [...]
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