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Supporting Mike Sosebee’s film

26. February 2012

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For details about how to support Mike Sosebee’s film, Somewhere in New Mexico Before the End of Time, click here. The film will feature my favorite subject: me. Mike Sosebee is an independent filmmaker who hopes to break even on this film. As he says, the film is a failure if it nets money in [...]

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The myth of sustainability

21. February 2012

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I’m couchsurfing Michigan and somebody posted one of my 15 presentations (so far) on YouTube. It’s an updated version of my September 2011 presentation in Middleville, Michigan and I’m presenting here without further comment. ___________ A few recent interviews associated with my tour of Michigan are posted below: Walking away from empire, Kristine Morris for [...]

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A rewilding community toolbox

13. February 2012

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by Nikanoru, a 22-year-old, well-informed student of life This essay is available as two pdf documents with graphics: A Rewilding Community Toolbox and A Survival Bag Planning Aid Part I: Introduction & F.A.Q. A. Why did you make this document? This document embodies over a year of off-and-on research, effort, and practice, and cobbles together [...]

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From Allendale to Ypsilanti: Speaking in Michigan, 11-22 February 2012

10. February 2012

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I will be couchsurfing with my soapbox in Michigan for the third time in the last few months. Please introduce yourself at one of the following events, and stay tuned to this space as more events are added. First, though, I have a few announcements. Please note the new classified ad, courtesy of Jan Steinman. [...]

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Endings and beginnings

7. February 2012

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by Robin Datta Endings mark the beginning of a new state, different from the preceding one, just as beginnings indicate the end of a prior state. Each is a discontinuity discerned against a background that is unaffected by the discontinuity. Evolution is a phenomenon whereby multiple, sequential, miniscule discontinuities approximate a continuity. In biological systems, [...]

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Toward an economy of Earth

2. February 2012

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We need to develop a new economy because the current version is not working. The industrial economy is destroying every aspect of the living planet. And, as it turns out, we need a living planet for our own survival. In this essay, I briefly describe the horrors of the current interconnected, globalized, planet-destroying house of [...]

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