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Permaculture Possibilities  

In Extraenvironmentalist #58 our correspondent Kevin joins us to cover permaculture approaches to our global challenges.

Learning to Look at the Sky Again

“Because you gave names to everything you found, and came up with logos for bad ideas, and woke up early for conference calls, and changed your car every two years, and it was no progress at all/just a shadow festival/because of that you will have to learn to look at the sky again, you …

We Don't Live In Neverland

The return to an older American concept of government as the guarantor of the national commons, the theme of last week’s post here on The Archdruid Report, is to my mind one of the crucial steps that might just succeed in making a viable future for the post-imperial United States. A viable …

Review: The Localization Reader, edited by Raymond De Young and Thomas Princen

For general audiences and experts alike, this is an engaging, accessible reader that takes an affirmative social change approach to localization.

Earth is not a global village: Start living more locally before it’s too late

The scary truth is that the economic, environmental, social, and political crises we’re facing are red flags warning us that the system we’re all counting on is headed for collapse, says LaConte. Global leaders are approaching these crises as though they were distinct and unrelated, …

Conflict and change in the era of economic decline: Part 5 - A theory of change for a century of crisis

If groups seeking to make the post-carbon transition go more smoothly and equitably are to have much hope of success, they need a sound strategy grounded in a realistic theory of change. Here, briefly, is a theory of change that makes sense to me.

Aristotle in Connecticut

As I tried to comprehend the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, my thoughts were with the victims and their families. The horror I feel is nothing compared to what they have been required to experience and absorb. Understanding what happened seems impossible — but attempt to understand it we …

Conflict and Change in the Era of Economic Decline: Part 3 - Scenarios for simplification: the options for managerial elites

Setting aside the discussion of international conflict, what will be the options of nations for dealing internally with economic decline? So far, the first resort of many countries has been fiscal austerity.

Michael Shuman: Local Dollars, Local Sense   

Michael Shuman talks about his book Local Money, Local Sense. Recorded at the Boulder Bookstore on February 22, 2012.

Going Local in an Age of Globalization  

Michael Shuman at Climate One, a special project of the Commonwealth Club of California.

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