Reprinted from Reality Sandwich.
If you want to go fast, walk alone. If you want to go far, go together.
Whilst, like you, I’ve read many a tale of imminent ecological collapse, impending disaster, and fervent fear mongering within the pages of some of our more dubious dailies, I could never say I’d been “shaken to [...] Read more »
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This essay, taken from The Earth Blog, argues that humanity, and more specifically our individual selves, are what matters to us most of all and thus anything that threatens our survival is fundamentally bad. It’s a tough argument to make, largely because the values of those of us brought up in the civilized world have [...] Read more »
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An interesting piece on wildness contrasted with sustainability, from the new going feral blog:
Wildness
Everything on this earth is inherently wild – if it lives and dies, it is part of the wildness that is life. Our word ‘will’ is rooted in the word wild; the will of a creature – the will of the land, [...] Read more »
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Posted in sustainability on Jul 15th, 2009 3 Comments »
Asks Luis de Sousa, at the Oil Drum, Europe.
Consulting an on-line Dictionary, a definition for Sustainability can be retrieved as the ability to perpetuate existence. In the same resource the definition for Development will be given as growth or progress. A concept gathering these two words together forms what the Greeks termed an oxymoron, an [...] Read more »
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This is a very long, but brilliantly well researched essay by Peter Salonius, taken from The Oil Drum. The basic premise is that we stopped being sustainable thousands of years ago (this is the general feeling of most anti-civ writers working today) and that without phenomenal population reductions in tandem with a complete cultural change [...] Read more »
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Chuck Burr, at culturechange.org writes about how we might begin to extricate ourselves from the empire.
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 [...] Read more »
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There is something problematic with advocating a 30-hour work week at the beginning of the 21st century: a 30 hour week is not short enough!
by Don Fitz, at climate and capitalism.
With millions of jobs lost during the first part of 2009, who is calling for a shorter work week to spread the work around? Not [...] Read more »
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paper presented at the 20th Conference of North American and Cuban Philosophers and Social Scientists, Havana, June, 2008
by Joseph Tharamangalam, Centre for Global Justice.
Give us this day our daily bread. (The only prayer Jesus is reported to have taught his followers)
With all the authority of hindsight, it is important to analyze and criticize [...] Read more »
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David MacKay’s book, can be read on-line.
Sustainable Energy – without the hot air Read more »
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