I was very impressed with the science fiction novel EARTH that I read about 15 years ago. Published in 1990, it describes the near future (2038) in amazing detail. Now […]
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The following Keynote Speech was delivered on October 1st, 2005 to the Society of Environmental Journalists at their convention in Austin, Texas. Bill Moyers Thank you for inviting me here today […]
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The following remarks were made at the Petrocollapse Conference held in New York City on October 5th, 2005. James Howard Kunstler In the waning months of 2005, our failure to […]
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Megan Quinn Yellow Springs, Ohio—More than 350 people from 39 states and five countries gathered here in late September with about 100 area residents to learn how to prepare at […]
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This is the text of a speech by the former Vice President of the United States. It was delivered on Wednesday, October 5th, 2005 in New York at the We […]
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Judy Wilken “Between us two there’s nothing between that does not belong between us.” The children had gathered around me for our last lesson in StarChild Science Part I. “Now […]
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Reposted from: Signature Adam Fenderson “The world is not about to run out of oil, but it does face the end of the First Half of the Age of Oil,” […]
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George Friedman The American political system was founded in Philadelphia, but the American nation was built on the vast farmlands that stretch from the Alleghenies to the Rockies. That farmland […]
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Dee Hock One concept that I have puzzled over is an ancient, fundamental idea, the idea of community. The essence of community, its very heart and soul, is the nonmonetary […]
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Wendell Berry I remember well a summer morning in about 1950 when my father sent a hired man with a McCormick High Gear No. 9 mowing machine and a team […]
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