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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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The Other Extinction (Short Story)
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Monthly Archives: May 2004
CONFESSIONS OF A CKO: WHAT I SHOULD HAVE DONE
I just got back from a two-day conference in Ottawa on Knowledge Management, sponsored by the Conference Board of Canada. The entire discipline is at a crossroads, and the discussion was urgent and intense. I have already written about where … Continue reading
Posted in Working Smarter
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THINKING LIKE NATURE II: AMORY LOVINS RE-INVENTS CAPITALISM
The same day I posted my article about William McDonough, reader Brian Dear pointed out the work that Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute has been doing in much the same vein. Lovins, with colleagues Paul Hawken and L. … Continue reading
Posted in Preparing for Civilization's End
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HOWLING AT A WANING MOON
Yesterday I stumbled on a new environmental blog called Howling at a Waning Moon, by Colorado’s Bob Whitson, a passionate, thorough, prolific review of all the actions that Bush is taking (and not taking) that are leading to environmental deterioration … Continue reading
Posted in How the World Really Works, Preparing for Civilization's End
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CANADA’S FEDERAL ELECTION
On June 28, just a month from now, Canada goes to the polls to elect a new government. The situation is very volatile, with the ‘sponsorship scandal’ — a scam uncovered by the Auditor General that allowed a group of … Continue reading
Posted in How the World Really Works
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THAT’S AWFULLY PERSONAL: THE HOUSE AFLAME
Here are my answers to this week’s That’s Awfully Personal questions: Q: Your home is aflame and burning out of control. All living creatures have been safely evacuated. You have time to go back in quickly and save one possession … Continue reading
Posted in Using Weblogs and Technology
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THAT’S AWFULLY PERSONAL – WEEK OF MAY 28
Welcome to the first edition of That’s Awfully Personal, an opportunity for blog writers and readers to reveal a little more about themselves than might normally happen during the daily blogging process, and hence get to know each other a … Continue reading
Posted in _ Uncategorized
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ISRAEL VS. PALESTINE: THE INTRACTABLE, ENDLESS WAR
Things are usually the way they are for a reason. But there are few situations in the world that appear, from a distance, as unreasonable as the war between Israel and Palestine, a war that has been going on, in … Continue reading
Posted in How the World Really Works
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THINKING LIKE NATURE: WILLIAM MCDONOUGH REDESIGNS THE WORLD
Virginia reader Myke Myers kindly brought to my attention the work of his fellow Virginian William McDonough. McDonough is an architect and designer who has garnered a lot of press for his bold yet pragmatic view of design. In a … Continue reading
Posted in Preparing for Civilization's End
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MEDIA SPIN AND ITS IMPACT ON PUBLIC OPINION
Ira Basen, a producer with the CBC and a friend of mine from Carleton University days, is writing a book on media spin, a term often used interchangeably with bias. But Ira says spin is actually subtler and more insidious. … Continue reading