Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
“Right Relationship” is a book for the worrying-about-collapse weary. It is a book for those of us who realize the world we live in is in great peril and that something fundamental has to change to ensure the human story continues and flourishes. The book arises from a Quaker tradition which has had remarkable successes in the past – the abolition of slavery being only one noteworthy example.
[to the graduating class] I have been chosen to give you your very last bit of wisdom, something to carry with you into the future. So here is the sum total of that wisdom
“Everything you have been taught to expect is wrong.”
Unfortunately, that isn’t a joke. You have been taken in by a host of assumptions that are not true, and if you walk out of here believing what you have been told and taught over the last four years, you will leave woefully unprepared for you. The consolation, I can offer you, however, is that while what you have been taught to expect is wrong, the things you have actually learned may be of more use than you think.
Barack Obama’s key climate bill hit by $45m PR campaign
Scouts Train to Fight Terrorists, and More
Deb Doncaster at CPFO talks about Ontario’s Green Energy and Economy Act (audio)
Against the grain of industrial agriculture, truly local bread stages a comeback
Legal or Not, Chickens Are the Chic New Backyard Addition
China goes farming as factories close
If you are new to trying to lower your impact, or just trying to save money and energy, it can be helpful to think in terms not of giving things up, but of halving them – using a combination of techniques to stretch things out a bit, and let you use or need only half as much. Because everything you halve, means half as much pollution, half as much waste, half as much money.
Peak Oil or Climate Change: Which Is Most Urgent?
On American Sustainability – Anatomy of Societal Collapse
Global Citizenship- Opportunities for Change
Working hard to live simply
K-5 curriculum for the post-carbon era
Local Living Economies – Protecting What We Love
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Bright Neighbor: Connecting and tightening neighborhood bonds
Letter from Sweden: The State of the End of the World
Using Thermodynamics to (Re)Examine Environmental Kuznets Curves
Why I Fired My Broker
The Century of The Rights of Mother Earth
In German Suburb, Life Goes On Without Cars
Cities Can Save the Earth
Why Can’t We Build an Affordable House?
American Radicals as Co-op Housing Pioneers
Prophets of an indefinite expansion of today’s “information society” too often forget that information doesn’t exist by itself; it requires a physical substrate, and if that goes away, so does the information. As the age of cheap energy comes to an end, relying on a substrate as energy-intensive as the internet may be a risky bet.
Peak phosphorus: the sequel to peak oil ?
Finding my Herb Garden
Wisconsin Fourth-Graders Boycott School Lunch
Hungry For Land
A Doomer’s Spring
Burnout is the elephant in the room of activists and world changers. It has to all have happened yesterday, and; as Bill Mollison once famously put it “I can’t change the world on my own, it’ll take at least 3 of us”.
