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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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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: June 2008
Velcro Bridges
When I finish mowing the lawn down by the pond I invariably come back inside covered with burrs. These are nature’s clever seed carriers, and the way many plants hitch a ride with passing animals (like me) to new fertile … Continue reading
Posted in Working Smarter
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Saturday Links of the Week: June 28, 2008
Say yes, Be generous, Speak up, Love more, Slow down, and Trust yourself.: These are the six lessons in Patti Digh’s new book, Life is a Verb: 37 Days to Wake Up, Be Mindful, and Live Intentionally, taught through some … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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Friday Flashback: A Game of Cards
Two years ago, suffering from the onset of severe ulcerative colitis, and suffering even more from the steroids prescribed to treat it, I began writing a mystery novel. I wrote four chapters and then, having at last recovered, abandoned the … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Works
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The (Nearly) Impossible Challenge of Creating a Sustainable Economy (Part Two)
Yesterday I explained what JÈrÙme Guillet in the European Tribune calls The Anglo Disease, and how it has produced a completely dysfunctional economy in many affluent nations (and co-dependence with struggling nations). I used the example illustrated above of a … Continue reading
Posted in Preparing for Civilization's End
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The (Nearly) Impossible Challenge of Creating a Sustainable Economy (Part One)
(Chart from http://www.eurotrib.com/files/3/050619_financial_profits.gif ) Over the past year, JÈrÙme Guillet of the European Tribune has written an extensive series of articles about what he calls The Anglo Disease: Describing the interest rates set by the bond market as the “cornerstone” … Continue reading
Posted in Preparing for Civilization's End
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these things flow through us
these things flow through us: sunlight, bringing warmth, and that aching golden moment at the end of day;air, sweet breath, in, hold, out, hold, let go, let come;water, what we’re made of, and where we came from, ebb and flow;nutrients, … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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Saturday Links of the Week — June 21, 2008
Do-it-yourself personal photo mosaic made from answering 12 questions, courtesy of MosaicMaker, with questions from Beth T. Royal Bank of Scotland Predicts 30% Drop in Stocks By September: A drop of this size, coupled with a spike in interest rates … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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Friday Flashback: Art as Story
Above, artwork from Kate Bush CD A Sky of Honey, via Andrew Campbell and below, Andrew’s own representation of Now Time In January of last year, I wrote an article about how artists tell stories, sometimes about things that words cannot … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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The Space Through Which Stuff Passes
I continue to draw great inspiration from Stewart & Cohen’s book Figments of Reality, a book that has clearly also influenced my favourite philosopher John Gray. In the book they state: Living species, including humans, are emergent properties of (what … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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Getting Rid of E-mail
Last year I wrote an article on when not to use e-mail. In a nutshell, you shouldn’t use e-mail: To communicate bad news, complaints or criticism: Deliver it face to face or at least by phone. Not voice-mail either. When … Continue reading
Posted in Using Weblogs and Technology
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