Reposted from www.DavidKorten.org. This is an overview of The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community by the author. David Korten By what name will future generations know our time? Will […]
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The Ideal School
Win Wenger is a good human. He is always seeking to help his fellow humans solve their problems. The following article was first written in 2004, and then revised in […]
Continue readingNot Enough Fish in the Sea
George Monbiot The more it is tested, the more compelling the hypothesis becomes. Dyslexia, ADHD, dyspraxia and other neurological problems seem to be associated with a deficiency of Omega 3 […]
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Daniel Dennett writes: In just one species, our species, a new trick evolved: language. It has provided us a broad highway of knowledge-sharing, on every topic. Conversation unites us, in […]
Continue readingWho are the New Urbanists?
James Howard Kunstler The New Urbanists met for their annual confab in Providence over the weekend and I was there among them, as I have been for thirteen years, because […]
Continue readingTechnotopia & the Death of Nature
This morning, I repost another article from KurzweilAI.net. There is something missing from the discussion of the technological singularity, says James Bell: the true cost of progress will mean the […]
Continue readingPreparing for the Postcarbon Age
Reposted from GrannyD.com. Doris “Granny D” Haddock What must it be like, do you suppose, to be a fireman rushing though a burning building, coming across a wealthy gentleman in […]
Continue readingAn Inconvenient Truth
Roger Ebert I want to write this review so every reader will begin it and finish it. I am a liberal, but I do not intend this as a review […]
Continue readingWhy It’s Over for America
The author is professor of linguistics and philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. … Reposted from The Independent/UK. Noam Chomsky The selection of issues that should […]
Continue readingWhere is the Hirsh Report?
The following article was originally posted in July of 2005. It said that all thinking humans should read the Hirsch Report. Richard Heinberg Over the past few months controversy has […]
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