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An Eaarthly Civilization: Actively Participating
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News and views from Eaarth, reflections on the Transition. Wednesday, June 22, 2011. An urban garden. Having a local, self-sustaining food system is just one aspect of Transition. ( source. Transition is a challenge to be an active participant in the unfolding of our collective future.". We start out by asking people to see the world as. Rather than as they'd like. So these are our choices: to passively accept our lot as throwaway commodities with no more ultimate value than our precious electronica, or ...
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An Eaarthly Civilization: January 2011
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News and views from Eaarth, reflections on the Transition. Tuesday, January 25, 2011. Hurtling Towards the Wall. If anyone ever wonders why I seem to obsessively forward on information of this nature (in the Transition Lancaster newsletter. A little reflection should provide the answer: it is simply impossible for a human being to maintain his sanity and. Believe himself to be alone in his knowledge. I am following a compulsion buried deep in my evolutionary nature. From the Inter Press Service. And they...
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An Eaarthly Civilization: April 2011
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News and views from Eaarth, reflections on the Transition. Friday, April 29, 2011. If I were given just one word to describe Transition, what would it be? Relocalization is the antithesis of globalization, which means it is the sine qua non. Of democracy. It is an essential precondition. For democracy. It is also a deliberately buoyant response to the tripartite challenge that is peak oil / climate change / financial collapse. Relocalizers say "hey, more of the same probably won't work. Despite mainstrea...
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An Eaarthly Civilization: December 2011
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News and views from Eaarth, reflections on the Transition. Saturday, December 3, 2011. Not Talking With Idiots. Every national academy of science on the planet, every major scientific body, and 97% of the world's climatologists all agree that climate change is happening, and is caused by humans.". That's not true.". Yes, it is.". No it's not.". When you can't even agree on verifiable facts, how can you have a conversation? Well, too bad for the Tea Partiers, but they're now in the minority. To be about &...
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An Eaarthly Civilization: Don't Rush
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News and views from Eaarth, reflections on the Transition. Wednesday, July 6, 2011. The second in my excerpts from. Zen Lessons: The Art of Leadership . The essential lesson in this passage is quite clear: don't rush anything you would like to last. This is a recurring theme throughout the text, and in fact echoes (though from a different angle) the previous excerpt,. Being in the World Without Misery. Ying Shaowu said to Master Zhenjing Wen:. A beautiful accomplishment takes a long time, ultimately invo...
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An Eaarthly Civilization: Gain and Loss
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News and views from Eaarth, reflections on the Transition. Thursday, July 14, 2011. The fourth in my series of excerpts from. Zen Lessons: The Art of Leadership , following on. Being in the World Without Misery. I just love the timeless quality of these stories. 69 Gain and Loss. Lingyuan said to the Confucian sage Cheng Yi:. A sage said, "Having many difficulties perfects the will; having no difficulties ruins the being.". This is the primordial Transition story. What is he saying? In calamity — t...
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An Eaarthly Civilization: December 2010
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News and views from Eaarth, reflections on the Transition. Wednesday, December 8, 2010. The Story of What Could Be. It won't be easy. ( source. I wrote this originally back on July 4. Though most of us have forgotten about the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon and the catastrophic and seemingly endless oil spill that resulted, the legacy remains, and will continue to remain, for decades. This story is about what that legacy. Could be , if we wanted it badly enough. Purchased the oil, bought with blood a...
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An Eaarthly Civilization: October 2010
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News and views from Eaarth, reflections on the Transition. Wednesday, October 27, 2010. I had this epiphany while on a walk a few weeks ago, but have been too busy till now to write it down. It is dovetailing with my renewed appreciation for planning, which is, by nature, an incremental art. I was pondering the ever-unfolding economic collapse, and arrived at the conclusion that having limited resources might actually increase the odds of making "sustainable". Advisable to pool resources, but I am. Indep...
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An Eaarthly Civilization: Not Talking With Idiots
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News and views from Eaarth, reflections on the Transition. Saturday, December 3, 2011. Not Talking With Idiots. Every national academy of science on the planet, every major scientific body, and 97% of the world's climatologists all agree that climate change is happening, and is caused by humans.". That's not true.". Yes, it is.". No it's not.". When you can't even agree on verifiable facts, how can you have a conversation? Well, too bad for the Tea Partiers, but they're now in the minority. To be about &...
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An Eaarthly Civilization: Peace amid Violence
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News and views from Eaarth, reflections on the Transition. Wednesday, August 24, 2011. The fifth in my series of excerpts from. Zen Lessons: The Art of Leadership , following on. This one struck me due to its seeming Stoicism. That school of philosophy always had some appeal for me. Zen ideas have taken slightly deeper root lately, now that I practice Danzan Ryu Jujitsu. A Japanese (by way of Hawai'i) martial art. 142 Peace Amid Violence. Wanan said, "How is this even enough to talk about? So we know tha...
