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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
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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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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)
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Monthly Archives: September 2007
How Change Happens
Our environment is changing at an astonishing pace, driven by ever-increasing numbers of people, technology that allows us to transform our environment at a speed previously unimaginable, and (thanks to cheap fuel) unprecedented mobility of humans and products (goods and … Continue reading
Posted in Preparing for Civilization's End
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Could You Be a Model Natural Entrepreneur?
When young people tell me they agree with my prognosis for the future of our planet, and ask me what they should do, I ask them to learn how the world works, and learn about better ways to live, and … Continue reading
Posted in Working Smarter
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Sunday Open Thread — September 16, 2007
Artwork by the amazing hyperrealist sculptor Run Mueck. Thanks to my neighbour Franca Caruso for the link What I’m thinking about, and planning on writing (and podcasting) about soon:Why We Have No Time For Making the World Better: Three of my … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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Saturday Links for the Week: September 15, 2007
What, Me Worry?: Survey Shows Fortune 1000 Corporate Executives’ Heads in the Sand This week’s important news is, alas, all sad, annoying, grim or scary. Anglo-American Bloc Only Opponents to UN Statement on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights: Showing their true imperialist … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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Joyless Responsibility
I‘ve written recently about the importance of each of us accepting personal responsibility for our actions, for our inactions, and for knowing their consequences. It is natural to accept responsibility, because in nature it is almost always joyful. It entails … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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Need Less
The essence of radical simplicity, of the gift/generosity economy, of natural community, and of natural entrepreneurship, I think, is needing less. Needing less makes us, as individuals, members of enterprises, communities and societies, more self-sufficient, and more resilient, and allows … Continue reading
Posted in Preparing for Civilization's End
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Vignette #5: The Cat Who Was Never Let Out and the Bird Who Was Never Let In (A Fable)
Once upon a time, in a condominium in the centre of a big city, there lived a slightly plump cat who was never let out. Every day, she would stare out the screen window of the condominium at the traffic … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Works
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Natural Enterprise: The Book, The Title, The Web Tools, and the Journey
As you probably know, my book on creating sustainable, responsible, joyful, community-based businesses will be published in the Spring by Chelsea Green. I need some assistance from readers to finalize a title and subtitle, and to design the web tools … Continue reading
Posted in Working Smarter
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Sunday Open Thread — September 9, 2007
What I’m thinking about, and planning on writing (and podcasting) about soon:Joyless Responsibility: I’ve written recently about the importance of each of us accepting personal responsibility for our actions, for our inactions, and for knowing their consequences. It is natural … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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Saturday Links for the Week — September 8, 2007 — The Anti-Corporatist Edition
Ending the Personhood of Corporations: Corporate Crime Reporter has a fascinating review of Robert Reich’s new book Supercapitalism. It’s good to see a mainstream politician (Reich was Clinton’s Secretary of Labor) who gets why corporations are inherently pathological, and what … Continue reading
Posted in How the World Really Works
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