1). Getting the usual ‘experts’ together to plan for a better future. This always leads to tinkering with existing (flawed) plans, and excludes those most affected by such plans. Need: Involve mostly “different” people and start by focusing not on plans, but on values, beliefs, world views, paradigms—then feelings and passions—then, emergent from these, hopes, [...]
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It’s hard to envision a post growth future without building a little community. Here are 12 ways to meet your neighbors.
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The Transition Movement is about creating more resiliency in local communities in order to respond to the “Hydrocarbon Twins” of peak oil and climate change positively. It is about creating a better, more sustainable way of living in a world without oil and with an altered climate. Both of these shocks to the world are [...]
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Even Ben Bernanke knows money doesn’t equal happiness.
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The virtual omnipresence of the internet (no pun intended) has altered the way humanity interacts in absolutely unbelievable ways. Two years ago I was working hard in my nine-to-five job, trying to pay down my school debt and keep up with the grind, when I started writing on a virtually unheard of topic in mainstream [...]
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What comes first: personal freedom or the Earth?
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photo © 2008 Brooks Elliott | more info (via: Wylio) What makes you feel as though you are progressing in life? Do you measure your success by the dollars in the bank? Perhaps you count the amount of cars you own, or boats, or socks, or elephants? Here’s a radical idea – do you measure [...]
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