James Howard Kunstler The New Urbanists met for their annual confab in Providence over the weekend and I was there among them, as I have been for thirteen years, because […]
Continue readingTechnotopia & the Death of Nature
This morning, I repost another article from KurzweilAI.net. There is something missing from the discussion of the technological singularity, says James Bell: the true cost of progress will mean the […]
Continue readingPreparing for the Postcarbon Age
Reposted from GrannyD.com. Doris “Granny D” Haddock What must it be like, do you suppose, to be a fireman rushing though a burning building, coming across a wealthy gentleman in […]
Continue readingAn Inconvenient Truth
Roger Ebert I want to write this review so every reader will begin it and finish it. I am a liberal, but I do not intend this as a review […]
Continue readingWhy It’s Over for America
The author is professor of linguistics and philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. … Reposted from The Independent/UK. Noam Chomsky The selection of issues that should […]
Continue readingWhere is the Hirsh Report?
The following article was originally posted in July of 2005. It said that all thinking humans should read the Hirsch Report. Richard Heinberg Over the past few months controversy has […]
Continue readingRedefining Progress
James Howard Kunstler Is it even possible these days to define a valid doctrine of political Progressivism? The notion of Progressivism per se really comes from that brief and amazing […]
Continue readingThe Paradigm is the Enemy
Michael C. Ruppert A dear friend of mine, Dr. Faiz Khan, once said that a paradigm is what you think about something before you think about it. If the global […]
Continue readingThe Story of Carl
Originally posted April 27, 2006 at Common Dreams. Thom Hartmann Carl loved books and loved history and, after spending two years in the army as part of the American occupation […]
Continue readingGood Things To Do!
I found this list at YES! Magazine. Put a coin in someone’s expired parking meter. Send a handwritten postcard to someone each month. Help others survive and thrive. Start each […]
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