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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
Creative Works:
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: August 2009
From Knowing to Doing: How and Why We Act
BLOG From Knowing to Doing: How and Why We Act Last week I had a fascinating chat with Mark Brady, marketing/design guru extraordinaire, whose Alchemy model of business elements, using the metaphor of the periodic table of elements, is so … Continue reading
Posted in Preparing for Civilization's End
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Links and Tweets of the Week: August 30, 2009
BLOG Links and Tweets of the Week: August 30, 2009 Hugging salt and pepper shakers from Geoff‘s Byron Bay vacation shots — I want a bunch of these! PREPARING FOR CIVILIZATION’S COLLAPSE An Uncivilized Solution: Keith Farnish has written the … Continue reading
Posted in Preparing for Civilization's End
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Creative Activism
BLOG Creative Activism Today I joined the Applied Improv Network, in part to signal my move from passive writer and idea-ist and story-teller to activist. One of the things I like about Improv is that it is focused completely on … Continue reading
Posted in Preparing for Civilization's End
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Ten Powerful Questions for Conversations
BLOG Ten Powerful Questions Artwork “In Deep Conversation” by Irish artist Pam O’Connell One of the most valuable lessons from my recent meeting with David Zinger was how important it is to ask powerful, open questions. I’ve previously written that … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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No More Stories
BLOG No More Stories I ended a recent article with the following warning/rant about stories: I am coming to believe that all stories, from the unactionable dumbed-down crap that we’re fed by the mainstream media, to the preposterous ‘history’ they … Continue reading
Posted in Preparing for Civilization's End
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Resilience is Futile (Adapt and Improvise Instead)
BLOG Resilience is Futile (Adapt and Improvise Instead) I‘ve been using the word resilience to describe the capacity — of individuals, communities and organizations — to improvise, to respond well in the moment. But I think resilience is the wrong word — … Continue reading
Posted in Working Smarter
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Links and Tweets of the Week: August 22, 2009: The Post-Civilization Edition
BLOG Links and Tweets of the Week: August 22, 2009 the transition movement logo PREPARING FOR CIVILIZATION’S COLLAPSE Finally It’s OK to Talk About Civilization’s Collapse: This blog is mostly about preparing for the collapse, later this century, of our … Continue reading
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Know Yourself, and Beware of Stories
BLOG Know Yourself I had a fascinating conversation this afternoon with Seattle artist (and Patti Digh co-conspirator) David Robinson. It was largely focused on the knowing/doing disconnect that I’ve been writing about, but we also talked about stories — as … Continue reading
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We Were Here: Amy’s Story
We Were Here Final Story This is the final version of Andrew Campbell and Amy Leung Barnes’ story, We Were Here, that I promised in this earlier post. It’s available in pdf format here. “If you are a poet, you … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Works
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On Living Alone
BLOG Living Alone A substantial proportion of bloggers, I would guess, live alone. More than most who live with others, they have the method, the motive, and the opportunity to blog. Just look at the demographics: In North America, Northern … Continue reading
Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves
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