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Saturday, Oct 24
Links and Tweets of the Week: October 24, 2009
LIVING BETTER A Depression Diary: If we can't learn the lessons of history from textbooks, perhaps we can learn from stories. A new unedited diary of a man struggling through the Great Depression tells us a lot that the economics textbooks leave out. Thanks to Paul Kedrosky for the link.
Saturday, Oct 3
Links and Tweets of the Week: October 3, 2009
Preservation only has a chance in times of plenty, and even then only in theory. After all, we are today coming out of the by far most plentiful time in human existence, but it has not exactly been a time of preservation. Quite the contrary, it has both led to, and was accommodated by, the worst d...
Monday, Sep 14
What You Can Do: A Framework for Personal Action (version 0.9)
Not all humans are responsible: just those who are part of Industrial Civilization. Industrial Civilization depends on economic growth and the unsustainable use of natural resources, so it has developed a complex set of tools for keeping people disconnected from the real world and liv...
Friday, Jan 23
The Ideology of Growth
Human population will magically level off at the level of resources sustainably available on the planet. Daniel Quinn has shown the absurdity of this assumption, which is fueled by the fact that, in recent times, birth rates have fallen as wealth has risen. This has not been true througho...
Tuesday, Dec 30
A Post-Civilization Story
This homemade litmus paper is but one example of high-tech/low-tech the community employs. Nearby, the folks working the garden utilize all manner of manual tools designed to put out maximum efficiency with minimal effort, maximum durability with minimal impact of the environment. Elsew...
Thursday, Nov 27
Endgame: Civilization -8, Nature 0
That's easier said than done, however. When virtually everyone you talk with thinks we will solve these problems, or doesn't believe these problems are even real, remaining utterly convinced that the first truly global civilization, the most powerful civilization in our planet's his...
