Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
John Michael Greer The fixation on imaginary “perfect storms” critiqued in last week’s post is only one expression of a habit of thinking that pervades contemporary American culture and, to a lesser extent, most other industrial societies.
The first results of this year’s scientific dialogue with my garden are in and are shared herein.
The one thing you need to know about President Obama’s plan to address climate change is that the most it will accomplish is slowing very slightly the pace at which the world is currently hurtling toward catastrophic climate change.
Last week’s post on the need to check our narratives against the evidence of history turned out to be rather more timely than I expected.
While the world burns in ever growing forest fires, drowns in flash floods, and despairs in economic insecurity and social in-justice, our gardens grow.
As the United States contemplates exporting natural gas to the rest of the world, previously energy-poor Israel seems about to jump on the export bandwagon. The current government is seeking approval to export about 40 percent of the production from its newly discovered offshore natural gas fields.
When you think about it, it’s really rather odd that so many people nowadays should be so hostile to the suggestion that history moves in circles.
Honeybees are not the only ones in trouble–bumblebees are too. This is the first of a two part series that will discuss how urban areas might be bumblebees’ best chance for survival.
You might ask: then why have children? It’s a fair question.
Like children looking through a kaleidoscope who are unaware of its actual workings, the media and the public have been misled into believing that early production results in the shale natural gas and tight oil formations in the United States will be repeated again and again across the United States and the world.
The predictable response to any suggestion that the past might have anything useful to say about the future is – it’s different this time…
As the amount of net energy available to the society shrinks, it becomes less and less able to both maintain its infrastructure and actually do things.
