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By carolyn, on May 6th, 2012% 
We’ve all experienced it: the kind of conversation everyone knows has to happen sooner or later, and nobody wants to have to face. Casual talk edges around it, jokes fail to get a laugh because they brush too close to it, silences open up because there’s no way to keep talking without crossing that line and facing it openly. Then, finally, somebody draws in a deep breath and says the thing that has to be said; chairs get pulled closer around into a circle, and a sense of relief cuts through the discomfort as the conversation begins at last. That’s the kind of conversation we need to have now, and the subject is the end of industrial society. . . . → Read More: The Conversation We Need To Have: The Age Of Limits Conference, Memorial Day Weekend, By John Michael Greer
By carolyn, on April 26th, 2012% 
Defining wealth as the ability to buy things, we have largely lost the sense of “weal,” which means well-being (as in the word “commonweal”). To most people, wealth now refers less to shared well-being than to “gross national product” or “personal net worth.” . . . → Read More: Redefining Wealth, By Craig Comstock
By carolyn, on April 17th, 2012%
By carolyn, on March 3rd, 2012% 
The prescription is simply to walk in a natural setting. Nothing extreme, neither grand nor distant, is required. A walk during lunch down tree-lined streets, a restful interlude in a vest pocket park, or an evening stroll through neighborhood nature will suffice. Certainly the choice of what walking route to take does matter. In a study that validated aspects of attention restoration theory, a walking route through an arboretum that was tree-lined and separated from traffic significantly improved mental effectiveness when compared to a route in the same area and of the same length but more urban in character ( Berman, Jonides, & Kaplan, 2008). . . . → Read More: Walking And Our Ability To Cope, By Raymond De Young
By carolyn, on February 26th, 2012% 
Forget meadows. The city’s new park will be filled with edible plants, and everything from pears to herbs will be free for the taking. . . . → Read More: It’s Not A Fairytale: Seattle To Build Nation’s First Food Forest
By carolyn, on February 3rd, 2012% 
We need to develop a new economy because the current version is not working. The industrial economy is destroying every aspect of the living planet. And, as it turns out, we need a living planet for our own survival. In this essay, I briefly describe the horrors of the current interconnected, globalized, planet-destroying house of cards. Then I articulate another way, which is not difficult to do: It would pose quite a challenge to come up with a worse way, and we have several models from which to choose. I will focus on two such models, agrarian anarchy and the post-industrial Stone Age. . . . → Read More: Toward An Economy Of Earth, By Guy McPherson
By carolyn, on January 26th, 2012% 
APOCALYPTICISM is an actual word. According to Wikipedia, it is “the religious belief that there will be an apocalypse, a term which originally referred to a revelation of God’s will, but now usually refers to belief that the world will come to an end time very soon, even within one’s own lifetime.” The idea that “the world will end” is not limited to fire and brimstone. Various New Agers believe that 2012 will result in an alignment of the galactic something or other, fulfilling the Hopi prophecy of the Blue Kachina and the reversal of the Earth’s magnetic poles…and stuff…then we will enter a golden age. Sound familiar? . . . → Read More: We Come From The Future, By Ian MacKenzie
By carolyn, on January 18th, 2012% 
This is an amazing time to be alive! “Yeah, right,” my inner cynic says, “crumbling economy, peak oil, peak everything, melting ice caps, mass extinctions… and you have no idea how you are going to survive in your old age.” The list goes on and on… all woven together, I remind my cynic within, by the incredible, inescapable fact that we are living in a time when the old is crumbling, which is when there is the greatest opportunity to create something new. And that IS an amazing time to be alive! . . . → Read More: Dancing On History’s Edge: Why This Is An Amazing Time To Be Alive, By Dianne Monroe
By carolyn, on January 18th, 2012% 
The modern world depends on economic growth to function properly. And throughout the living memory of every human on earth today, technology has continually developed to extract more and more raw material from the environment to power that growth. This has produced a faithful belief among the public that has helped to blur the lines between human innovation and limited natural resources. Technology does not create resources, though it does embody our ability to access resources. When the two are operating smoothly in tandem, society mistakes one for the other. This has created a new and very modern problem — a misplaced trust in technology to consistently fulfill our economic needs. What happens once key resources become so dilute that technology, by itself, can no longer meet our growth needs? . . . → Read More: Returning To Simplicity (Whether We Want To Or Not), By Gregor MacDonald
By carolyn, on December 22nd, 2011% 
Usually at year’s end, we’re supposed to look back at events just passed — and forward, in prediction mode, to the year to come. But just look around you! This moment is so extraordinary that it has hardly registered. People in thousands of communities across the United States and elsewhere are living in public, experimenting with direct democracy, calling things by their true names, and obliging the media and politicians to do the same. . . . → Read More: Compassion Is Our New Currency, By Rebecca Solnit
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What’s New Watch Carolyn and Andrew Harvey discuss Transition And Transformation: The Joy Of Preparation (http://vimeo NULL.com/33870113) on Vimeo. Post Peak Living  (http://www NULL.1shoppingcart NULL.com/app/?af=1108821) |
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