Author: Timothy Wilken

James Howard Kunstler America is, after all, the world’s most powerful nation. This sentiment has been boinging around the major media lately, especially in stories and columns about the health […]

James Howard Kunstler The interesting sociological phenomenon of the cargo cult is best illustrated by the encounters between the tribal peoples of the South Pacific and European explorers, soldiers, and […]

Reposted from the Worldwatch Institute. Mikhail S. Gorbachev Five years ago, all 191 United Nations member states pledged to meet eight Millennium Development Goals by 2015, including eradicating extreme poverty […]

The following is the transcript of a speech delivered on January 08, 2005 in Hudson, New York. James Howard Kunstler My last three books were concerned with the physical arrangement of life […]

Reposted from ABC in Australia. Eleanor Hall Now to some alarming scientific research on the state of the planet: destructive climate change; the depletion of energy, food and fish stocks; […]

The following selection from The Happy Child: Changing the Heart of Education, by Steven Harrison was found on the Internet. Steven Harrison “A great many people think they are thinking […]

Carol Brouillet Before history was written, a gift economy existed. The gifts of Nature were abundant; the relationship between people, the Earth, the animals and plants were sacred. Western civilization […]

Caroline Webb Speaking at a conference in Berkeley California in November 2002, cosmologist Brian Swimme recalls his astonishment after his first meeting in 1982 with the person who has emerged […]

This is an excerpt from the first chapter of a new book, reposted from The New York Times. Jared Diamond A few summers ago I visited two dairy farms, Huls […]

On his website, Mark Shepard writes: Contrary to his portrayal by Longfellow, Hiawatha was a statesman, peacemaker, and co-founder of the Iroquois League, Confederacy, or Confederation. This following address by […]