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 readingHistory at Risk: The Crisis of the Global Climate
by Ross Gelbspan Reposted from The Heat is Online It is not news that climate shapes history. What is news is that the heating of our atmosphere has propelled our […]
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 […]
Continue readingIt is day 5 since one of my hosting ISPs crashed
Timothy Wilken Good Morning Future Positivists Yes, I am alive and well. It is day 5 since one of my hosting ISPs crashed and still has not recovered. I have […]
Continue readingRegaining the Power of Community
Timothy Wilken Recently, the electrical power crisis in California has drawn national and world attention to a shortage of crude oil and natural gas. These fossil fuels are currently the […]
Continue readingMy Thoughts on Gift Economy
Eric Sommer I was glad to see the interest in alternative, and hopefully more cooperative, forms of economy in a recent issues of ‘Future Positive’. However, the slogan at the […]
Continue readingThe Blind Men and the Elephant
Timothy Wilken I long ago realized that synergic organization is so different from how things are done today that it involves a new way of thinking. Because I am describing […]
Continue readingMore Devil’s Advocates
Timothy Wilken Well it appears my recent article Beyond Democracy has been quite provocative. A reader of Friday’s article Devil’s Advocate has written with a number of comments. In the […]
Continue readingA Dialogue on INDERdependence and Competition
with Arthur Noll and Chris Lucas Arthur Noll writes: People are interdependent, social beings. We do not, and cannot, live as the independent tiger, or orangutan, coming together only to […]
Continue readingThe Devil’s Advocate
Timothy Wilken In response to my last article Beyond Democracy reader Jeff Willson writes: Okay, I’m definitely not going to say I’d like your ideas to fail, but that doesn’t mean I think […]
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