Making a living in our modern culture usually requires that you participate in the destruction of the world. We can’t go back to Homo hunter-gatherer. Is there another way forward?
There is an another way to make a living that enables you to do what you love and save the world at the same time. I [...]
What is the meaning of life? Where do we go when we die? What is god? Important and unimportant questions for all of us. Here are my best guesses to these and other life centering questions.
Humanity’s Purpose
We are really here literally to balance the life process of plants. At one point in the earth’s evolution, [...]
Cultural awareness and expanded consciousness is separated by concentric rings with enlightened doers at the center blending out to the zombie masses of our culture on the outside. For those at the center it is a journey of a lifetime.
The New Cultural Enlightenment
It takes connecting so many dots about the nature of our existence, our [...]
Every person in the United States produces more than twice his or her weight in waste every day. In other words a world of 6.7 billion benevolent vegans or walking Buddhas won’t be enough to save the world.
Michael Toms named our 2008 New Dimensions Radio interview, “Going Green is Not Enough.” The term was right, [...]
The next ten years will not look like the last ten. They will be a shock to many people. Theories like petrocollapse will become mainstream. The first world will begin to look like the second and third world.
Industrialized Countries Backslide
If you want to see what the next decade will look like, look no further than [...]
The economic crisis has a bright side; it will be the catalyst for the rebirth of the local small farm. These will be the kinds of farms that we need: diverse, organic, and educational.
Diversity is the Key
The new generation of small farms will be more diverse than the previous generation. During the era of cheap [...]
Why the environmental movement has failed to protect the environment. Introducing the “Free Nature Movement” and why like abolition and suffrage it can succeed in freeing nature from humanity.
Environmentalism is not a movement. For a political campaign to be considered a movement, it has to drive a new right into the constitution. Recycling and carpooling [...]
There is a quadrillion-dollar powder keg sitting at the center of the world financial markets. If the economy keeps on it present course, it will be ignited into a financial supernova. This is the result of the combination of greed and computers—derivatives.
The Derivatives Powder Keg
Derivatives are financial instruments whose values are derived from something else [...]
The growing economic meltdown is a wake-up call that our infinite growth bubble has burst. After the house of cards finishes falling, there will be only one viable economic solution left standing, a steady-state economy. We will have a limp-along economy during the rocky top of peak oil for a while, but then its powering-down [...]
Locking up the land has been a great way to concentrate wealth, and for a minority to dominate the majority. In England .28 percent of the population owns 64 percent of the land. In the United States the top one percent of the population now owns more than the bottom 95 percent. The rest of [...]
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