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Web & media Aug 13

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-Murdoch signals end of free news
-Art in a changing climate
-Richard Heinberg’s “Blackout – Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis” – (book review)

Confronting the Challenges of Community, Part One

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There exists today, a trinity of situations that confronts those of us who live in Western culture: global climate change, the peak and eventual end of non-renewable sources of fossil fuels (oil and gas), and economic meltdown.  These issues are old news for much of the world.  We in the wealthier nations are going to join the global community in attempting to find ways to survive and live amidst enormously trying circumstances.

the land speaks

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In “reading” these words, do you say anything? More likely, you read silently—or more accurately, subvocalize. Like microexpressions, reading, like emotion, still inheres to movement of the human body. It cannot take place solely in an incorporeal “mind,” our fantasies of such aside. We can fool ourselves into that notion only because we’ve reduced the motions involved to the most fleeting versions, giving the superficial impression that they barely happen at all.

Peak energy and cultural fragmentation

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Last week, I went to Paimpol with my girlfriend to attend the Sailor Songs Festival…As we were strolling along the wharves amidst a joyful crowd, she told me me “we’re no longer in France”. The fact that the greater part of what makes the region so un-french is fairly recent does not make her remark less pertinent. In fact it makes it even more so as it highlights a particularly important factor in the coming energy descent : cultural differentiation