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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
The Illusion of the Separate Self:
Happy Now?
This Creature
Did Early Humans Have Selves?
Nothing On Offer Here
Even Simpler and More Hopeless Than That
Glimpses
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What Happens in Vagus
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 Fortune Teller (Short Story)
Non-Duality Dude (Play)
Your Self: An Owner's Manual (Satire)
All the Things I Thought I Knew (Short Story)
On the Shoulders of Giants (Short Story)
Calling the Cage Freedom (Short Story)
Rune (Poem)
Only This (Poem)
The Other Extinction (Short Story)
Invisible (Poem)
Disruption (Short Story)
A Thought-Less Experiment (Poem)
Speaking Grosbeak (Short Story)
The Only Way There (Short Story)
The Wild Man (Short Story)
Flywheel (Short Story)
The Opposite of Presence (Satire)
How to Make Love Last (Poem)
The Horses' Bodies (Poem)
Distracted (Short Story)
Worse, Still (Poem)
Conjurer (Satire)
A Conversation (Short Story)
Farewell to Albion (Poem)
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Monthly Archives: October 2005
Spin, the Three P’s and the Politics of Learned Helplessness and Learned Optimism
Problem perception before (green) and after (red) people are conditioned to learned helplessness. One of my most popular articles was a review of Malcolm Gladwell’s article on SUVs, which concluded that we are afraid of, and worried by, the wrong … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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Enterprise Resilience
My book Natural Enterprise says the way to take the risk and stress out of your business is to do research up-front to ensure you find that ‘sweet spot’ where an untapped need intersects with something you and your partners … Continue reading
Posted in Working Smarter
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Saturday Links
News of the Week:Ten reasons Bill Moyers Should be President: Seriously. Scott Beckman explains why he’s the right choice for the Democrats in 2008.US Comptroller Dares to Say What Greenspan Didn’t: US comptroller David Walker is now speaking out publicly … Continue reading
Posted in Using Weblogs and Technology
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Peer Production
From writer Erick Schonfeld in last month‘s Business 2.0 comes another twist on the Gift Economy & Open Source Business: Peer Production,.”allowing individuals to create products for themselves and others to enjoy” independent of organization or pricing considerations. The term … Continue reading
Posted in Working Smarter
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The Span and Influence of the Blogosphere in 2010
The Technorati blog has been publishing a lot of data lately on the state of the blogosphere. Some of the data defy projection (if the number of blogs continues to double every five months, for example, in five years there … Continue reading
Posted in Using Weblogs and Technology
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Table of Contents Updated
I’m pleased to report that my tables of contents, listing all 1050 of my major articles by topic and subtopic, are now updated to today. You can find them on my right sidebar.
Posted in Using Weblogs and Technology
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Language and the ‘Otherness’ of the Environment
As I was working on yesterday’s post about Becoming Aware, I kept thinking about how our human languages frustrate our attempts to explain things that are perceptual rather than conceptual. The normal solutions to this are (1) use complicated words … Continue reading
Posted in Preparing for Civilization's End
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Three Necessary Capabilities for Becoming Aware
Since I wrote a review of Presence (the new book by Senge, Scharmer et al) I have been caught in a maelstrom of debate on the whole issue of whether personal ‘consciousness-raising’ (for lack of a better term) has an … Continue reading
Posted in Working Smarter
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Sand Towns: Pueblos de Arena Strives for a Cultural Renaissance
Dear readers: I recently received this intriguing and moving letter from Mariella Rebora, who is directing an attempt to re-inculcate thousand year old artisan and bioregional management skills in the Chancay region of Per (coastal region north of Lima). She … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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Preparing for the Flu Pandemic
Sometimes getting media attention is more a curse than a blessing. There is a ton of misinformation out there about the flu, and what to do about it, and the media, by dealing with the issue piecemeal, is contributing to … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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