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Stephanie Mills

Stephanie Mills, Post Carbon Institute Fellow in Biodiversity and Bioregionalism, is a renowned author and lecturer on bioregionalism, ecological restoration, community economics, and voluntary simplicity. Her books include Tough Little Beauties (2007), Epicurean Simplicity(2002), and Turning Away from Technology (1997). An ecological activist for over 30 years, she has written or edited six books and countless articles, and edited a number of publications including Earth Times and CoEvolution Quarterly. Stephanie has lectured at numerous institutions, including the E.F. Schumacher Society, the Chicago Academy of Sciences, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

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Durable Goods

By Stephanie Mills, Resilience.org

What’s coming? Possibilities I hope for, probabilities to dread. Possible: A renewed stirring of love for the Earth. Respect for and reciprocity with all beings.

  • October 26, 2018

Biodiversity: peak nature?

By Stephanie Mills, Post Carbon Institute

As it has grown in numbers and technological might, the human race has become a force of geophysical proportion, on par with the asteroid that struck the Yucatan during the Cretaceous era, dethroning Tyrannosaurus rex. Extinction is final. Yet no species is immortal. Extinction has been part of evolution since life emerged on Earth.

  • January 4, 2011

Oil-Choked Spring

By Stephanie Mills, Post Carbon Institute

The map of the area threatened by the BP blowout, comprising nearly half of the US's coastal wetlands, looks like tattered lace. It's a realm of islands, shoals, estuaries, marshes, swamps, bayous, and creeks, land speckled across water, water twining across land, all of it in flux...

  • May 7, 2010

No more Ms. Nice Girl

By Stephanie Mills, Energy Bulletin

What’s a silver-streaked lady ecology writer to do? Be nice, be friendly, avoid the troubling topics, read the classics, don’t feel morally obliged to infect others with a perfectly warranted alarm and pessimism. Who am I to tell 10,000 ostensibly complacent neighbors that the ship is going down ... especially at the height of summer, when the days are so fine and fair?

  • June 29, 2008

Fun while it lasted

By Stephanie Mills, Energy Bulletin

Living in expectation of this civilization’s collapse, which I do, can be isolating. It’s like having historical-epochal halitosis. You don’t get invited back to dinner parties after trying to engage people on the topic of our imminent decline and fall.

  • June 22, 2006
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