Propaganda tactics developed during World War I are now the foundation for our entire addiction-based consumer system. The dehumanizing force we now call "public relations" has been targeting demographic groups since the 1920s, starting with the American housewife. (more)

If there ever was a father of local currency it would be Paul Glover. In 1991 He started a local currency in Ithaca N.Y. called Ithaca Hours. It is the largest and longest running complementary currency in the country.  (more)

Musings on the imminent irradiation of the West Coast. (more)

Your work expresses who you are. Your vision is the big picture of your business and your life. Crafting your values is step one is running a business. (more)

The time has come to splice biophilia into the DNA of a new kind of fiduciary responsibility that enables one million people to put 1% of their money into local food enterprises that support principles of soil fertility, sense of place, economic, cultural and ecological diversity, and nonviolence.  (more)

Social media is often described as a 'revolution', but in Egypt, this appears to literally be coming true. (more)

If social media are virtual manifestations of assembly and expression, then the Egyptian government's Internet shut-down would appear to be a clear violation of human rights. (more)

Surging through the streets in uncountable thousands, burning policestations to the ground, convincing army troops of their commonality, spontaneously organizing themselves to protect property, direct traffic, and deal with emergencies, smoking out Mubarak’s attempt tocapitalize on the inevitable looting and violence, they are revealing to the world a new national template: self-organization. (more)

Whole Foods Market has opted to go along with the massive planting of a genetically engineered crop that will spread its mutant genes across the nation and require herbicides to be sprayed on millions of acres across the U.S. (more)

Complex societies cycle back and forth between building up, or anabolism, and breaking down, or catabolism. It's possible at this point to provide a fairly exact date for the onset of catabolic collapse in the United States of America. (more)

In a recent Washington Post article titled Europe's Ominous Reckoning, economist Robert Samuelson argued that "Ireland's economic crisis is ... not about Ireland." What he seems to not recognize is that "Europe's ominous reckoning" is not about Europe. (more)

By reducing the need to pay for every little service we use, Time Banking frees up money for things that operate exclusively within the cash economy. It also fosters cohesive communities by building trust in social interaction and interdependence. (more)

Timothy Leary was a political scapegoat, like Julian Assange. He was imprisoned for possession of 0.01 grams of marijuana. His real crime was broadcasting that no one had the right to prevent others from altering their consciousness.   (more)

From the oil shocks of the 1970s to the savings & loan crisis of the 1980s, the dotcom bubble of the 1990s, and today's mortgage meltdown, systemic crises are larger, more devastating, longer lasting, and closer together, and our so-called leaders are in denial. (more)

The growth of the information economy has made it imperative to deal with the phenomenon of abundance. Unlike the long history of commons research, studies of abundance are few; thus, we are just starting to build theories about it. (more)

For the next phase of our evolutionary unfolding, the spiritual and artistic counterculture must define the desired alternative, co-opt the propaganda tools and financial instruments of the dominant culture, and redirect or reverse the momentum of the system as a whole. (more)

The Truth Gathering was a confluence of people with many different perspectives on all the problems of the world, shining a beacon of truth deep into our history and far into the future, all focused through the lens of 9/11 truth. The image that is forming is how we can imagine waking up and truly, finally, getting our collective act together on a global scale. (more)