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2012, Climate Change and Permaculture

Shamans and scholars tell us that the close of this great cycle of the Mayan calendar is not the cue for apocalypse but rather a new beginning. Yet scientists are now predicting a 4 degree temperature rise, which will indeed mean the end of civilization as we know it, if not of human life on earth. The time we live in is a crucial turning point. What can we do? (more)

12-3-12
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An Open Letter to the Occupy Movement: Why We Need Agreements

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The framework that might best serve the Occupy movement is one of strategic nonviolent direct action. Within that framework, Occupy groups would make clear agreements about which tactics to use for a given action. This frame seeks to create a dilemma for the opposition, and to dramatize the difference between our values and theirs. (more)

11-14-11
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Making The Fifth Sacred Thing Movie -- A Magical Experiment

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Stories frame reality for us, telling us what is possible and showing us how we might act. The Fifth Sacred Thing is a story that has influenced hundreds of thousand of people. My determination to make it into a movie comes from my belief that a story can become a magical working, a spell. (more)

7-19-11
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Collapse and Elections: My Lessons from Katrina

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While my long-term vision is a world of empowered, decentralized communities in charge of their own destinies, there's a short term problem we desperately need to address: completely transforming our technology, our energy infrastructure, our economy, our food, manufacturing and transportation systems to a zero carbon basis, and doing it in a way that furthers social justice. I don't think Obama will be our savior. But if he's elected, the wind will shift. (more)