Common Dreams The story goes that when the nonviolent Jesus was born into abject poverty to homeless refugees on the outskirts of a brutal empire, angels appeared in the sky […]
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Reposted from Cultivate Magazine. Colin Campbell It stands to reason that oil has to be found before it can be produced, which means in turn that production has to mirror […]
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Reposted from Monday’s edition of the Los Angeles Times. Jimmy Carter In recent years, I have become increasingly concerned by a host of radical government policies that now threaten many basic […]
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Wake up! Wake up you sleepy heads. Get Up! Get out of bed. … I keep beating the drum here at CommUnity of Minds. We humans need to face the […]
Continue readingWelcome to Terra City
The Human Wisdom Organization Terra City was first published in November 2002 as a book. Without any intention of being sensational, this book is simply one of a kind: its […]
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Reposted from www.ecoliteracy.org. Fritjof Capra In its original meaning, “development” identifies a fundamental characteristic of all life. Over the past twenty years, a scientific understanding of life has emerged at […]
Continue readingFear of Losing Immortality
Reposted from The Oil Drum. PeakGuy There’s something I’ve been pondering for a long time about the reluctance of the collective conscience, particularly in the US, to accept the implications […]
Continue readingDependence on Phantom Carrying Capacity
This classic essay from a master of Ecology is excerpted from one of the most important science books ever written: Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change. William R Catton, […]
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Reposted from Common Dreams. Bill McKibben The first time I went there, I had never heard of Curitiba. I had no idea that its bus system was the best on […]
Continue readingHealing the Earth
The following essay was written in 2001. Gary R. Varner Let us turn our energies towards healing the Earth and place our own desires aside for a while. Physicist Stephen […]
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