Author: Timothy Wilken

Reposted from: Signature Adam Fenderson “The world is not about to run out of oil, but it does face the end of the First Half of the Age of Oil,” […]

George Friedman The American political system was founded in Philadelphia, but the American nation was built on the vast farmlands that stretch from the Alleghenies to the Rockies. That farmland […]

Dee Hock One concept that I have puzzled over is an ancient, fundamental idea, the idea of community. The essence of community, its very heart and soul, is the nonmonetary […]

Wendell Berry I remember well a summer morning in about 1950 when my father sent a hired man with a McCormick High Gear No. 9 mowing machine and a team […]

I am fortunate to be on the mailing list of a careful thinker known as Ecopilgrim. I repost a recent essay of hers this morning. Marguerite Hampton In searching for […]

I just finished The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler. It is an important read for all humans. The following review is reposted from The American Scientist Online. A Book Review by […]

I received this interesting read as an email. Linda Adams “She’s unfriendly.” “He’s a skeptic.” “My child misbehaved.” While these may seem like simple, harmless descriptions of people, in fact, […]

This book review written in August 2003 is reposted from the Caldwell’s Foundation website. A book review by Joseph George Caldwell I just finished reading Richard Heinberg’s book, The Party’s Over […]

Reposted from the July 18th issue of the New York Times. William Greider DURING the cold war, as the Soviet economic system slowly unraveled, internal reform was impossible because highly placed […]