Cooperative Culture–Energy Characteristics
by Mary Logan Professor Dave Tilley suggested a review of Richard Sennett’s new book, Together; The Rituals, Pleasures and Politics of Cooperation. The book was thoughtfully written. Sennett traces...
View ArticleConnecting with Community through Storytelling
by Mary Logan We put away many kinds of violence that we would act out in the natural world beyond the city; in order to inhabit cities we put away actions…Inside these cities we need writers, we need...
View ArticleCooperative Living
by Mary Logan and Darcy Dugan Do you want to live more efficiently and reap the benefits of a closer community? Cooperative living is a great strategy for getting and staying out of debt while building...
View ArticleSymbolic culture clash at the end of empire
Symbolic culture clash at the end of empire by Mary Logan “Bruegel’s paintings of the Seasons and his Fall of Icarus celebrate peasant life for an industrious harmony with nature. This view of peasants...
View ArticleWalking out on empire
Walking out on empire by Mary Logan So what do we do now? At what point does one realize that his or her paradigm isn’t working anymore, and give up and walk out on empire? How do we start walking, and...
View ArticleGender roles and descent
By Mary Logan This post is about how gender roles might change in descent. I’ve been thinking about this topic for a while, but Anne-Marie Slaughter’s article this month in The Atlantic instigated this...
View ArticleYoung Voices–Generation iDontCare
by Monsieur le docteur Ralph (un nom de plume) Our university has an eccentric, bow-tied math professor who is extremely fond of the quote from Piet Hein, “Problems worthy of attack, prove their...
View ArticleStranger in a strange land
By Mary Logan Everything pulses, and pulses maximize the flow of power in systems. I pulsed in a big way this year. After too much time spent thinking, reading, and writing (and sitting in a chair)...
View ArticleThe transformity of personal action
By Mary Logan The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves. –Oscar Arias Sanchez It is easy to get distracted when the world appears to be...
View ArticleWhen cow love meets car love
We think this is history. This can’t happen today. But there it is. Right there, once again in my newsfeed. The Nuer, the Dinka, famous breeders of cows, worshipers of cows, are being set up to go the...
View ArticleSociocultural Boundaries
Some years ago now a team of Swedish scientists proposed an interesting framework for understanding planetary environmental problems. It generated a range of responses from the environmental community,...
View ArticleHe’s told us not to blow it
Mainstream cultural memes derived from this movie suggest the power of human technology and inventiveness through the know-how and persistence of a botanist/mechanical engineer. NASA may have used this...
View ArticleGreetings to the natural world
The Thanksgiving Address is the central prayer and invocation for the Haudenosaunee. It reflects their relationship of giving thanks for life and the world around them. The Haudenosaunee open and close...
View ArticleResponsibility for regeneration
Whose responsibility is it to change society? If it is ours, where can we start? This post is about prosaic lawn reform as a symbol of change and personal responsibility for the environment.
View ArticleDon’t come around here no more
In an era of energy descent and rapid cultural change, how do we fight against trends such as racism and fascism?
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