Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth about Climate Change
This is a book I have yet to read. The author has extensive academic credentials and has written about the issue of climate change politics over a period of some…
John F. Dunbar
From the Preface to "The World Set Free" – H.G. Wells (1913)
This book was written in 1913 and published in 1914, just at the beginning of “The Great War”. The piece below was written in 1921 and is from the preface…
Five Orders of Human Consciousness
David C. Korten in his book “The Great Turning”, lays out five Orders of Human Consciousness which I have greatly condensed and which are presented below — GET THIS BOOK…
Five Orders of Human Consciousness
David C. Korten in his book “The Great Turning”, lays out five Orders of Human Consciousness which I have greatly condensed and which are presented below — GET THIS BOOK…
More thoughts from "New World New Mind" – Robert Ornstein and Paul Ehrlich, 1989
This piece starts back when humans were still hunter-gatherers, >15,000 years ago. __________________________________________________________ “. . . everybody could keep track of all, or almost all, of the relationships among the…
More thoughts from "New World New Mind" – Robert Ornstein and Paul Ehrlich, 1989
This piece starts back when humans were still hunter-gatherers, >15,000 years ago. __________________________________________________________ “. . . everybody could keep track of all, or almost all, of the relationships among the…
Homo sapiens, a classic misnomer — Excerpts from "New World New Mind" – Robert Ornstein and Paul Ehrlich, 1989
This book was written 23 years ago and the problems facing humanity have shifted slightly in the interim, mainly because even more critical crises have emerged. Also some of the…
Homo sapiens, a classic misnomer — Excerpts from "New World New Mind" – Robert Ornstein and Paul Ehrlich, 1989
This book was written 23 years ago and the problems facing humanity have shifted slightly in the interim, mainly because even more critical crises have emerged. Also some of the…
Of Feedback Loops and Tipping Points, and Cabbages and Kings
The sea was wet as wet could be,The sands were dry as dry,You could not see a cloud, because,No cloud was in the sky,No birds were flying overhead,There were no…
Of Feedback Loops and Tipping Points, and Cabbages and Kings
The sea was wet as wet could be,The sands were dry as dry,You could not see a cloud, because,No cloud was in the sky,No birds were flying overhead,There were no…
Part of the Prologue to ANewHumanity.CA
The End of Cheap Oil will bring unprecedented and mostly unwanted change to the industrialized world. No known combination of alternative energy sources, with the possible exception of nuclear reactors,…
Part of the Prologue to ANewHumanity.CA
The End of Cheap Oil will bring unprecedented and mostly unwanted change to the industrialized world. No known combination of alternative energy sources, with the possible exception of nuclear reactors,…
Get a Job
The song was recorded by The Silhouettes in 1958, the year that I got a job that turned into a 37 year career. In the 1950’s the expectation was that…
Get a Job
The song was recorded by The Silhouettes in 1958, the year that I got a job that turned into a 37 year career. In the 1950’s the expectation was that…
From ‘Meritorious Service’ to Radical Ideologue to Enemy of the State: How the Meritorious Have Fallen
The title above refers to me, not the writer of the letter below. I am proud to have a ‘Certificate of Meritorious Service’ hanging on my wall, in recognition of…
From ‘Meritorious Service’ to Radical Ideologue to Enemy of the State: How the Meritorious Have Fallen
The title above refers to me, not the writer of the letter below. I am proud to have a ‘Certificate of Meritorious Service’ hanging on my wall, in recognition of…
"Radical, Dude"
Joe Oliver, Harper’s ‘Natural Resources Minister’ talks about how he proposes to ministrate Canada’s natural resources: “Their goal is to stop any major project no matter what the cost to…
"Radical, Dude"
Joe Oliver, Harper’s ‘Natural Resources Minister’ talks about how he proposes to ministrate Canada’s natural resources: “Their goal is to stop any major project no matter what the cost to…
Are there any Bridge Builders out there?
Below is my comment to the EthicalOil.org story about Chiquita’s boycott of Dirty Tarsands Oil.____________________ “We can either co-operate in an effort to bring justice to the world or we…
Are there any Bridge Builders out there?
Below is my comment to the EthicalOil.org story about Chiquita’s boycott of Dirty Tarsands Oil.____________________ “We can either co-operate in an effort to bring justice to the world or we…