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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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Distracted (Short Story)
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Monthly Archives: September 2009
More Thoughts About Intentionality, Split and Otherwise
BLOG More About Intentionality In my post last week I described Gil Fronsdal’s meditation on intentionality, and the value of setting both long term (What do you intend to do with what’s left of your life?) and short term (What … Continue reading
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Links and Tweets of the Week: September 26, 2009
BLOG Links and Tweets of the Week: September 26, 2009 fun with figures: the top chart shows historical levels of atmospheric CO2 (180 to 300 ppm) back through the last half million years until about 1850, and the current unprecedented … Continue reading
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Leaning Towards Intention
BLOG Leaning Towards Intention My last few posts have been part of my process of deciding what I’m going to do next, as I prepare to move, to retire, and to become more active in living the ways I have … Continue reading
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Making the Change: How to Dismantle Industrial Civilization
BLOG Making the Change: How to Dismantle Industrial Civilization Keith Farnish’s book Time’s Up (also available as a free e-book called A Matter of Scale) provides a valuable framework for Step 7 in the What You Can Do process (see … Continue reading
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The Philosophy of Loren Eiseley, in Verse
BLOG The Philosophy of Loren Eiseley, in Verse I wrote this three years ago, and just rediscovered it. I thought it was worth reposting. The Star Thrower, by Loren Eiseley Once upon a time, there was a wise man who … Continue reading
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Links and Tweets of the Week: September 20, 2009
BLOG Links and Tweets of the Week: September 19, 2009 photo by colourblind (Payam Rajabi), taken not far from where I live PREPARING FOR CIVILIZATION’S COLLAPSE Moving Beyond Hope: From Sharon Astyk, fine words of inspiration for those of us … Continue reading
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My Journey
BLOG My Journey In my previous post I provided a framework for making the world a better place. Today I’m going to ‘score’ myself using that framework, and admit that despite all the work and energy I’ve put into learning … Continue reading
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What You Can Do: A Framework for Personal Action (version 0.9)
BLOG What You Can Do: A Framework for Personal Action to print out this framework, right click and select “view image”, then save the resultant image as a jpg or pdf and print that It’s been a couple of years … Continue reading
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Google Wave (continued): The Conversation Becomes the Process, and Even the Product
BLOG Google Wave (continued): The Conversation Becomes the Work-Product Back in June, I wrote about the new (it’s being rolled out, slowly, starting this fall) GWave product as representing “the wikification of conversation.” The more I think about it, and play … Continue reading
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Links and Tweets of the Week: September 12, 2009
BLOG Links and Tweets of the Week: September 12, 2009 image from Does Congo Matter? by Emily Troutman PREPARING FOR CIVILIZATION’S COLLAPSE Not a Problem, a Predicament: Sharon Astyk introduces some complex adaptive systems thinking in her post on approaches … Continue reading
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