Richard Duncan ABSTRACT: World Oil Forecast #6 concludes the following: (1) 23 out of 44 nations [representing 99% of world oil production in 2000] have passed their production peaks, (2) […]
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Timothy Wilken My daughter, Reason Wilken, is home from college. Reason is a 2001 honors graduate of UCLA with a BS degree in Biochemistry. She is currently considering her future. […]
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Crisis: Danger and Opportunity
Timothy Wilken CRISIS – The Chinese word for crisis is written by joining two ideograms together. These two ideograms, when joined together, make up the Chinese word crisis. When these […]
Continue readingThinking About the Commons
Arthur Noll I was looking through links on this web site, and came across this verse about the commons that used to be, well, common. They hang the man and […]
Continue readingPossessions are not necessarily property
Timothy Wilken The possession of an object does not mean that the possessor has a moral or rational claim to ownership of the object. The political, economic, and social structures […]
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David Korten writes: “Having reached the limits of an Era of Empire humanity is now compelled to make a conscious collective choice to live into being a new human Era […]
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an interview with David C. Korten by Sarah Ruth van Gelder A few jaws dropped among the young activists at a training camp outside Seattle where preparations for the WTO […]
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Jonathan Rowe My wife grew up in what western experts call, not without condescension, a “developing” country. The social life of her village revolved largely around a tree. People gathered […]
Continue readingMore Wisdom and A New Contributing Editor
Timothy Wilken Contributing editor Arthur Noll shares his wisdom in an important essay called A Small Survival Guide. Also see Arthur’s highly recommended online book Harmony. I am also pleased to […]
Continue readingPreparing for an Uncertain Future
Arthur Noll Some might call this a worst case scenario, but it is the only future I see happening, not a matter of bleak or hopeful, but just how I […]
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