Reposted from The Oil Drum. PeakGuy There’s something I’ve been pondering for a long time about the reluctance of the collective conscience, particularly in the US, to accept the implications […]
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Dependence on Phantom Carrying Capacity
This classic essay from a master of Ecology is excerpted from one of the most important science books ever written: Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change. William R Catton, […]
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Reposted from Common Dreams. Bill McKibben The first time I went there, I had never heard of Curitiba. I had no idea that its bus system was the best on […]
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The following essay was written in 2001. Gary R. Varner Let us turn our energies towards healing the Earth and place our own desires aside for a while. Physicist Stephen […]
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The following speech was given in March 1996. It is reposted from Gandhi Today. Jan Viklund The year of 1991 was a year of dramatic changes in our global village […]
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This article was written in June 2001, and is reposted from Mother Jones. Bill McKibben The eastern end of the village of Gorasin, on the edge of the Louhajang River […]
Continue readingMad Max Meets American Gothic
Bill McKibben Can you feel the mood shifting? I can. A year of spiking speculation about peak oil and the death of suburbia has rattled lots of Americans. Plenty of […]
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The following song was written by Karen Rupprecht and Pam Minor to help teach children to co-Operate. Some things are hard for one to do Some things are hard for […]
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Reposted from Post Carbon Institute. Lisa Rayner Both permaculture design and research into the nature of psychological trauma were born out of a need to heal. A comparison of the […]
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Reposted from What is Enlightenment? Andrew Cohen It is indeed a remarkable fact that now, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, executives and business leaders are beginning to look […]
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