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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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Nothing On Offer Here
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Letting Go of the Story of Me
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Monthly Archives: October 2008
CCK08: Connectivism and the Challenge of Making Connections in Vast and Complex Networks
We’re now 2/3 the way through the 12-week MOOC (online course) on Connectivism and Connective Knowledge. Next week we get into the role of the teacher and the future of education in an online, connected world, and I’ll have a … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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The Careless Society
For most of our civilization’s 30,000-year history, most of us made our living in agriculture. Then, about a thousand years ago, we began making other goods in a more organized fashion, through guilds, apprenticeship systems etc. Later still, about 250 … Continue reading
Posted in Preparing for Civilization's End
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Making a Living Naturally: The Fifteen Qualities of Natural Enterprises
This is the fourth in a series of articles about my new book Finding the Sweet Spot. The book is available from most booksellers or online from the sites listed in the right sidebar. A synopsis of the book is here. … Continue reading
Posted in Working Smarter
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Bioneers: Effective Activism
The annual Bioneers By the Bay conference this past weekend in New Bedford MA had a wide range of themes, but far and away the most valuable session was a “kitchen table” discussion with Bioneers founders Kenny Ausubel and Nina … Continue reading
Posted in Preparing for Civilization's End
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Links of the Week – Saturday/Sunday October 25-26, 2008: The Sacred Places Edition
Cartoonist Tom Toles shows us this year’s scariest Hallowe’en costume. Thanks to my daughter Tiffany for the link. The Power of Place: My friend Amy Lenzo is working on a four-woman project called The Power of Place with the Collective … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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CCK08 Week 6-7: Complexity, Connection and Learning
I‘m a week behind in my weekly Friday writing about the connectivism MOOC, but last week’s subject was complexity, which is interesting, so I’ll post about it now and then skip a week.I’ve written a lot about complexity here, so … Continue reading
Posted in How the World Really Works
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This is Who I Am, Now
I confess that my rambling post on Monday was my way of thinking through what I wanted to say in this one. Over the past couple of years, after transforming the way I lived as a result of my serious … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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Finding the Sweet Spot — In Your Community
This is the third in a series of articles about my new book Finding the Sweet Spot. The book is available from most booksellers or online from the sites listed in the right sidebar. A synopsis of the book is here. … Continue reading
Posted in Working Smarter
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What Makes Us “Us”
Last year I wrote a 2-part article on The Chemistry of Love. It describes (a) the four self-reinforcing chemicals that make us “fall in love” emotionally (phenylethylamine, dopamine, norepinephrine* and oxytocin), (b) the chemicals that produce erotic feelings (testosterone and … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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Saturday Links for the Week: October 18, 2008
Photo: Colleen’s dog, just because just looking at him makes me smile.What Moves the Artist: Most of my circles, and my readers, are artists in one way or another, so I was intrigued by Malcolm Gladwell’s portrait of two forms … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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