By John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report
It's impressively easy to misunderstand the point made in last week’s post here on The Archdruid Report. To say that the world we experience is made up of representations of reality, constructed in our minds by taking the trickle of data we get from the senses and fitting those into patterns that are there already, doesn’t mean that nothing exists outside of our minds.
By Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute
Modern economies appear to run less on character, more on energy, resources, investment, debt, and innovation. But in the world that’s coming, who we are may once again matter more than what we have.
By Judy Alexander, Transition US
Our stories hold energy. They can keep us focused on the content and energy of life as we know it.
By Dave Room, Melias Papa
If we want a Planetary Awakening, we need to be thinking new story forms that celebrate interdependence, cooperation, and resilience.
By Ugo Bardi, Cassandra's legacy
Language is the real break of humans with everything else that walks, crawls, or flies on the earth...But, as for all technologies, it has unexpected consequences.
By John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report
One of the core themes of the Retrotopia narrative I’ve been developing here over the last month or so is the yawning gap between the abstract notion of progress that we all have in our heads and the rather less pleasant realities to which this notion has been assigned.
By Ugo Bardi, Resource Crisis
Pure reason doesn't tell us that we should do something to keep alive the other species sharing the earth with us.
By Erik Lindberg, Resilience.org
Beliefs matter. So do stories. My inspiration often comes from the written word, and I’ve long been interested in writers who revel in the complexity of beliefs, understand how adept humans are at self-deception, but nevertheless provide a useful roadmap.
By Peter Whybrow, Post Carbon Institute
In our social evolution as a species, biology and culture run on parallel tracks, but they do so at different speeds. Thus biology, quickly and disruptively, can be outpaced by cultural change.
By Brian Miller, Resilience.org
Anyone who farms experiences setbacks on a daily basis. That rate of failure and a willingness to try again seems teach a few practical lessons in being resilient.