By Anne B. Ryan, Feasta
Modern economic systems have sanctified the payment of debt but this is not some natural or God-given rule, rather a situation designed by financial elites. The wisdom of Rumpelstiltskin needs to be revisited and adapted for modern times.
By Charlotte Du Cann, Charlotte Du Cann blog
The three R's of Deep Adaptation are tasks, they demand we leave a lot of our identity and cleverness behind, our comfort zones, our egoic insults, the traumas we cling to like antiquated gas masks, long after the war is over.
By Shana McDavis-Conway, Rob Hopkins, Rob Hopkins blog
Storytelling is a powerful political tool. Becoming better storytellers has been shown to make a huge difference to the impact and efficacy of activist groups and campaigns.
By Courtney White, Resilience.org
A murdered ranch employee. A vanished suspect. A stolen rodeo horse. A black helicopter. Angry environmentalists. Menacing oil-and-gas developers. A Sasquatch hunter gone astray. A mysterious billionaire. A missing can opener…
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 Shiba Desor, Dark Mountain Project
Stories have always had an important place in human history. According to Yuval Noah Harari, author of the book Sapiens, ‘Any large scale human cooperation – whether a modern state, a medieval church, an ancient city or an archaic tribe – is rooted in common myths that exist only in people’s collective imagination’.
By Vanessa Spedding, Vivid
Stories can indeed change the world — and if they are used carefully, wisely, and with love, they can change it for the better.
By John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report
Our narrator returns from his trip to a tier one county full of doubts about the Lakeland Republic’s prospects, and has those at once challenged and sharpened by a conversation at the local Atheist Assembly...
By John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report
“Excellent. I’ll offer just one correction: we haven’t succeeded as well as we have despite ignoring the economic advice of the World Bank and so forth. We’ve done so precisely because we’ve ignored their advice.”
By John Feffer, TomDispatch
Let me start with a confession. I’m old-fashioned and I have an old-fashioned profession. I’m a geo-paleontologist.