By Dave Pollard, How to save the world
You probably haven’t heard of the term acedia used, and it has several definitions, so I’ll start by defining it. It is a disillusioned detachment, disengagement or dissociation that stems from an incapacity to cope with the realities of the moment.
By Guy Dauncey, The Practical Utopian
Our history would be simple if we could classify it neatly into dominating alpha-males versus cooperative hunter-gatherers, but the experience of agency gives us not one but two fundamental impulses. As well as the desire not to be dominated it gives us the impulse to explore our individuality
By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog
If we take this idea seriously, that this is an interpenetrated, interrelated, interconnected cosmos, then there’s going to be interconnections with creativity.
By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog
Orwell nailed it in 1984, that who controls the present controls the past, and who controls the past controls the future.
By Douglas Rushkoff, P2P Foundation
This is the true, biggest challenge I’m facing as a writer and thinker. Myth: Do we need a new one, or do we need to dispense with them altogether?
By Brian Kaller, Restoring Mayberry
If you think there is hope for a decent future -- and I do -- then make that future come alive for your family and friends. I ask only two things: that it shows a realistic future, and that it be fun.
By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog
What are the unhealthy stories that we tell now? The story of unlimited growth. The story that we are separate. Any number of stories about who we are and our place in the world, and what it means to be alive.
By Katarzyna Gajewska, P2P Foundation Blog
Although creating an alternative culture requires effort, some effort is also put in maintaining the dominant culture. So the question is where to put the effort.
By Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog
These debates are precisely what makes the Anthropocene so valuable as an idea. It stops us short. It buttonholes us. It head-butts us. Then it asks us really, really hard questions while we’re reeling. I think that’s where its value lies.
By Michael Mielke, MAHB
It’s time to accept that we are not going to dislodge the entrenched interests holding back effective action on looming climate chaos by any means tried so far. Believing that 97% of credible scientists is consensus enough is 103% short for effective response.