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At Work in the Ruins: Excerpt

March 24, 2023March 22, 2023 by Dougald Hine

To put the whole weight of the future on the shoulders of those of us who happen to be around just now can be paralysing, the weight unbearable.

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Doing With What You Make Is Supreme

March 22, 2023March 22, 2023 by Clifford Dean Scholz

So you see the impact of what can happen with “doing with what you make.” I’m living it right now by sharing my 4-point recipe in this essay. Consider this my potluck contribution.

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Crazy Town: Episode 65. Why the Polycrisis Is a Statistical Anomaly: The Willful Delusions of the World’s Leading Pseudointellectual

March 22, 2023March 22, 2023 by Asher Miller

Meet Steven Pinker, whose denial of limits increases the likelihood of his worst fear: the end of the Enlightenment.

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I Want a Better Catastrophe: Excerpt

March 21, 2023 by Andrew Boyd

What kind of ancestor do I want to be? What do I love too much to lose? What must I pick up and carry into the future? Across the days after our meeting, I realized Dr. Kimmerer’s questions weren’t just thought experiments, but heart experiments.

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“Rude music,” empathy, and the case for localism

March 22, 2023March 21, 2023 by Brian Lloyd

If we want a future different from the one now bearing down on us with a full load of menace, we must fight for it as localists.

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Review: The House of Drought by Dennis Mombauer

March 20, 2023 by Frank Kaminski

I found Dennis Mombauer’s supernatural eco-novella The House of Drought to be both captivating and confusing.

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Beware the Phalse Prophets: Reflections of a Recovering Taxonomist

March 21, 2023March 20, 2023 by Jason Bradford

If I were to meet in person with the Phalse Prophet specimens I encountered in my research, I’d suggest that they take a long, long hike to a distant mountain top.

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Jodi Archambault: “Relationships, Reciprocity and Resiliency”

March 20, 2023March 17, 2023 by Nate Hagens

On this episode, Jodi Archambault, a member of the Hunkpapa and Oglala Lakota tribes, joins the podcast to share her experiences as an activist, government official, and someone who has lived amidst many cultures.

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Tough Times for Wandering Luddites

March 22, 2023March 16, 2023 by Nathanael Bonnell

But there’s at least one other important thing that gets me out on the rails. In a way that no other kind of transportation does, trainhopping satisfies my Luddite sensibilities.

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Columbia Gorge musings: Vision rising from place

March 15, 2023 by Patrick Mazza

Pay attention to context, sight tells me. Design our society, lives and communities within the ecological framework, and we will prosper, maybe even find some genuinely founded happiness in this life.

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Deadly train collision in Greece reveals the dysfunctionality of State and capitalism – time for self-management

March 13, 2023 by Yavor Tarinski

A major social change is urgently needed, one based on total political equality and direct participation, that requires moving beyond statecraft and capitalism

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We are all modern now

March 15, 2023March 13, 2023 by Andrew Curry

We can salvage the good things that modernity has brought that can be taken with us. We can mourn the good things that we will lose.

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