Category: CommUnity of Minds

This is the text of a speech by the former Vice President of the United States. It was delivered on Wednesday, October 5th, 2005 in New York at the We […]

Judy Wilken “Between us two there’s nothing between that does not belong between us.” The children had gathered around me for our last lesson in StarChild Science Part I. “Now […]

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 […]