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Preparing for Civilization's End:
What Would Net-Zero Emissions Look Like?
Why Economic Collapse Will Precede Climate Collapse
Being Adaptable: A Reminder List
A Culture of Fear
What Will It Take?
A Future Without Us
Dean Walker Interview (video)
The Mushroom at the End of the World
What Would It Take To Live Sustainably?
The New Political Map (Poster)
Beyond Belief
Complexity and Collapse
Save the World Reading List
Civilization Disease
What a Desolated Earth Looks Like
Giving Up on Environmentalism
Going Vegan
The Dark & Gathering Sameness of the World
The End of Philosophy
The Boiling Frog
Our Culture:
What to Believe Now?
Rogue Primate
Conversation & Silence
The Language of Our Eyes
True Story
Cultural Acedia: When We Can No Longer Care
Useless Advice
Several Short Sentences About Learning
Why I Don't Want to Hear Your Story
A Harvest of Myths
The Qualities of a Great Story
The Trouble With Stories
A Model of Identity & Community
Not Ready to Do What's Needed
A Culture of Dependence
So What's Next
Ten Things to Do When You're Feeling Hopeless
No Use to the World Broken
Living in Another World
Does Language Restrict What We Can Think?
The Value of Conversation Manifesto Nobody Knows Anything
If I Only Had 37 Days
The Only Life We Know
A Long Way Down
No Noble Savages
Figments of Reality
Too Far Ahead
The Rogue Animal
How the World Really Works:
If You Wanted to Sabotage the Elections
Collective Intelligence & Complexity
Ten Things I Wish I'd Learned Earlier
The Problem With Systems
Against Hope (Video)
The Admission of Necessary Ignorance
Several Short Sentences About Jellyfish
A Synopsis of 'Finding the Sweet Spot'
Learning from Indigenous Cultures
The Gift Economy
The Job of the Media
The Wal-Mart Dilemma
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Happy Now?
This Creature
Did Early Humans Have Selves?
Nothing On Offer Here
Even Simpler and More Hopeless Than That
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We Have No Choice
Never Comfortable in the Skin of Self
Letting Go of the Story of Me
All There Is, Is This
A Theory of No Mind
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Monthly Archives: February 2004
THE POETRY OF ICE AND SNOW
Lately I’ve been re-reading TS Eliot’s Four Quartets, surely one of the finest works of the 20th century, and started looking at some blogs that include original poetry. Here’s a sampling of some poetry I’ve found that I especially like. … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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CORPORATIONS VS. PEOPLE — A SPLIT DECISION
Three more recent articles feature corporations acting in their own self-interest, and against the interests of their employees and customers. Two of the articles are about offshoring — where the corporations seem destined to ‘win’, and workers worldwide will lose: … Continue reading
Posted in How the World Really Works
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THE BEST GAME IN THE WORLD
I‘ve always been a game player — cards, pool, board games, and outdoor games and sports. For me, it’s not about competition, or winning. It’s about playing. The attributes of the best games are: Simplicity — I don’t want to … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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PERSONAL CONTENT MANAGEMENT: AN EXPLORATION
In a recent post I advocated almost a complete replacement of existing knowledge management systems and intranets with a three-tiered set of simple, intuitive tools consisting of: Personal content management tools — to help people organize their personal information (and … Continue reading
Posted in Working Smarter
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WINTER WORLD
Winter World, the latest book by Bernd Heinrich, whose books Mind of the Raven and Why We Run I’ve reviewed before, is not as ambitious nor as eye-opening as his previous works, which focused on animal intelligence, endurance and sensitivity. … Continue reading
WE ARE EACH OUR OWN CULTURE
As I was reading Edward Hall’s The Hidden Dimension I began to realize how staggeringly differently each of us perceives the world. Hall speaks mostly about differences in perception between six different human ‘cultures’ — the Germans, French, British, Americans, … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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VITAL SIGNS
I‘ve been a reader of the Worldwatch Institute’s annual State of the World report for many years. I just discovered that, in between, they publish a report called Vital Signs: Trends That Are Shaping Our Future. The latest edition has … Continue reading
Posted in Preparing for Civilization's End
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REPLACING PAPER
For the second time in a month, we have a new innovation designed to replace paper. Two weeks ago I wrote about Toshiba’s new erasable paper. And yesterday, the Washington Post described the steps several organizations, led by Xerox spinoff … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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THE OIL WE EAT
An article by Richard Manning entitled ‘The Oil We Eat’ in the February Harper’s Magazine (not available online) bolsters the case I made in my post earlier today about the connection between overpopulation, biodegradation, pollution, war, violence, mental illness, loss … Continue reading
Posted in Preparing for Civilization's End
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MORE UNPALATABLE THOUGHTS ON OVERPOPULATION
In The Hidden Dimension, his dated (1969) but thoroughly researched breakthrough study of the field of proxemics, Edward Hall provides lots of food for thought for environmentalists and architects. Proxemics is the study of space (here on Earth not out … Continue reading
Posted in Preparing for Civilization's End
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