David Bollier A few years ago, the newspapers of New York City were ablaze with a controversy about dozens of plots of derelict land that had been slowly turned into […]
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”Always tell only the truth, and all the truth, and do so promptly right now.” -Buckminster Fuller
Harmony Is Now Complete
Timothy Wilken It has been my pleasure and privilege to publish the first edition of Arthur Noll’s small book Harmony. In the second half of his book Noll begins with a […]
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Korzybski Day
Timothy Wilken Alfred Korzybski was born on July 3, 1879, in Warsaw, Poland. In 1921, Korzybski, a mathematician and scientist published what this scientist considers one of the most important […]
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Timothy Wilken My article was cross-posted at the Sustainable Energy Resources Yahoo Group. Bob, a reader there, wrote with a number of comments and questions: I’m not sure that I […]
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Cutler J. Cleveland For a Sustainable Energy Future An Open Letter to the American People May 18, 2001 Dear Fellow Citizens, We are natural and social scientists who study the […]
Continue readingTaking the Moral High Ground Requires that We Face the Truth
Note: This article was later renamed to “Beyond Property” and was reposted as the first article of the five-part “Protecting the Future Series“. Timothy Wilken If we humans are going […]
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Timothy Wilken ‘Wealth’ The collective term we humans use to describe what we value is “wealth“. The human species emerged in the world of space-binding. Here the rule of survival […]
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The Scientific Basis for The Golden Rule
Timothy Wilken Edward Haskell, a pioneer of syneric science, explained: “The first formulation of the MORAL LAW for a non-human “kingdom” of Universe was Dimitri Mendeleev’s discovery of the Periodic […]
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Timothy Wilken Synergy means working together–operating together as in Co-Operation–laboring together as in Co-Laboration–acting together as in Co-Action. The goal of synergic union is to accomplish a larger or more […]
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The Fossil Fuel Depletion Crisis
Timothy Wilken A Description of the Problem The electrical power crisis in California during the summer of 2001 drew national and world attention to a shortage of crude oil and natural […]
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