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The Taste of Another’s Thoughts

May 19, 2018

The Taste of Another’s Thoughts We’ve taken a somewhat rambling route in our discussion of how each of us can haul ourselves up out of the swamp of abstractions in which modern industrial society is sinking fast, and find our way to the solid ground of things that actually matter. I know some of my […]

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Solutions Only Arise Outside the Status Quo

March 21, 2018

Solutions Only Arise Outside the Status Quo Solutions are only possible outside these ossified, self-serving centralized hierarchies. Correspondent Dan F. asked me to reprint some posts on solutions to the systemic problems I’ve outlined for years, most recently in How Much Longer Can We Get Away With It? and Checking In on the Four Intersecting […]

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Are We Fiddling While Rome Burns?

August 22, 2017

Are We Fiddling While Rome Burns? Solutions abound, but they require the retirement of obsolete systems that defend entrenched interests and soul-crushing inequalities. It turns out Nero wasn’t fiddling as Rome burned–he was 60 km away at the time. Did Nero Really Fiddle While Rome Burned? The story has become short-hand for making light of a […]

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Got Food? How Local Food Systems Can Build Resilience for Turbulent Times

September 8, 2015

Got Food? How Local Food Systems Can Build Resilience for Turbulent Times Corey Templeton The Deering Oaks farmers’ market, held every Wednesday and Saturday in Portland, Maine. Consider, for a moment, that lettuce leaf on your plate. It probably traveled a long way to get there—about 1,500 miles, on average.1 In fact, your dinner has probably […]

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The Boundaries and Future of Solution Space – Part 5

August 20, 2015

The Boundaries and Future of Solution Space – Part 5 Solution Space To use the word ‘solution’ is perhaps misleading, since it could be said to imply that circumstances exist which could allow us to continue business as usual, and this is not, in fact, the case. A crunch period cannot be avoided. We face […]

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Stairway to Heaven

August 19, 2015

Stairway to Heaven “Let us stop talking about collapse, peak oil, and global weirding and begin a conversation about what is cool and what is uncool.“ In Nine to Five Jane Fonda’s character, Judy Bernly, is the office newbie.  In a scene evoking Lucille Ball on the assembly line, she pushes too many buttons on an enormous Xerox machine and […]

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Progress in an Uncertain World

August 19, 2015

Progress in an Uncertain World Strong Towns is often accused of offering doom-and-gloom diagnoses of problems but being light on solutions. “You don’t tell us what we can actually DO to fix our insolvent cities,” goes the response. “You’re just so negative all the time.” This is not true, but I also don’t think it’s […]

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Let’s Talk About Solutions, Not Fake Fixes

August 9, 2015

Let’s Talk About Solutions, Not Fake Fixes Since the status quo has no workable Plan B to “growth” in an economy in which household incomes have declined 8.5% in a supposedly expanding economy, real solutions must arise outside the status quo. It’s a lot easier to talk about what’s wrong with the status quo and […]

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