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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
Fragments
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 Ever-Stranger (Poem)
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: February 2007
Blogging as Performance Art
Jon Husband has picked up an interesting concept from Evelyn Rodriguez and Matthew Dallman: that blogging could be considered a form of performance art. This has a kind of ego-stroking visceral appeal to bloggers (it sure beats the mainstream media depiction … Continue reading
Posted in Using Weblogs and Technology
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Peak Oil is Here, and Conservation is Nowhere in Sight
The latest production data analysis by the Oil Drum makes it clear that we are now at the peak of oil production (about 85 mbbd or 30 bbby), and we can expect a rapid drop-off over the next twenty years … Continue reading
Posted in Preparing for Civilization's End
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What’s New in Innovation: Five Trends Worth Thinking About
I haven’t written much about innovation lately, but that’s not because it isn’t important. It’s mostly because, at levels of energy that have a broad social or environmental impact, there simply isn’t much of it going on. Lots of R&D, … Continue reading
Posted in Working Smarter
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Sunday Open Thread – February 25, 2007
What I’m planning on writing about soon: What’s New in Innovation: Five trends worth thinking about. Blogging as Performance Art: Jon Husband’s new meme. What a Fair Tax System Might Look Like: Taxing bads (to discourage socially and environmentally destructive … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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Saturday Links for the Week – February 24, 2007
What It All Means This Week: In Case of Emergency, Don’t Rely on the Government: Once again, a well-intentioned government bureaucracy fumbled the ball in a crisis. This time it was in Eastern Pennsylvania, where an ice storm and blizzard … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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How Stuff Gets Done
Something remarkable has happened in the workplace in the forty years since I first entered it. Virtually every job in now unique, and no one knows everything about anyone’s job, or how to do it well, except the person who’s … Continue reading
Posted in Preparing for Civilization's End
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Jim Kunstler’s Agenda (and Mine)
Red line: Sustainable population/sustainable total footprint at prevailing levels of consumption, with no provision for any non-human species. Green line: Sustainable population/sustainable total footprint at prevailing levels of consumption, with provision for a healthy level of biodiversity. In 1980 we … Continue reading
Posted in Preparing for Civilization's End
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The Need to Make a Better World Easier
Here’s a few questions for baby boomer readers: Was there a seismic shift in thinking in the 1960s and early 1970s? If not, how do you account for the political forces that brought about the end of the Vietnam War, … Continue reading
Posted in Preparing for Civilization's End
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a small indiscretion
the train is fulland you squeeze into one of the window seats,two seats facing two others,and two weary commuters plunk down, one beside youthe other beside the seat oppositeand begin to chat about the day’s events ñ you place your bag … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Works
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What I Would Do If I Weren’t Blogging
If you weren’t blogging, what would you be doing with the time instead? This is, of course, a loaded question. Is blogging your excuse for not doing some things you would rather not do, or don’t want to admit you’re … Continue reading
Posted in Using Weblogs and Technology
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