The following is an excerpt the author’s new book, Moyers on Democracy. Bill Moyers Democracy in America is a series of narrow escapes, and we may be running out of […]
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Herman E. Daly Recent increased attention to global warming is very welcome. But much of it is misplaced. We focus too much on complex climate models, which ask things like […]
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On this holiday to celebrate Mothers, it seems especially appropriate that today’s author calls on us to preserve the greatest mother of all, Mother Nature. Of course Mother Nature is […]
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Timothy Wilken, MD Within this half century, we humans have developed ergometric science to help us improve our tool-making. Ergometric scientists tell us how to best design tools to fit […]
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Tom Whipple With crude oil now above $120 a barrel and threatening to go higher, it is clear that our preferred and convenient means of going places, our car, the […]
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Timothy Wilken As a synergic scientist I study how systems work together. How the parts composing a system relate to each other. Those parts that work against each other produce […]
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John Michael Greer You know that things are beginning to heat up when both sides of a controversy declare victory at the same time. Over the last week or so, […]
Continue readingMy Synergic Science Presentation at the UnMoney Convergence
I was honored to present the following material a the UnMoney Convergence in Seattle, Washington on April 15, 2008. You may view the slides used in the presentation. Timothy Wilken […]
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This is a transcript of a talk presented at the House of Delegates Meeting of the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses & Allied Professionals on April 29, 2008. It is […]
Continue readingWorld Made by Hand – Read This Book!
David W. Straight This is a finely-written view of a post-collapse America. Cormac Mccarthy’s novel Road was an altogether darker vision: James Howard Kunstler’s book World Made by Hand is […]
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