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Why would someone go to a movie that is essentially an interview of someone else? Don't we go to movies to be entertained or watch documentaries in order to be inundated with voluminous information and breath-taking cinematography? What would compel anyone…
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Added by Carolyn Baker on November 9, 2009 at 8:43pm —
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For one who has perception,
A mere sign is enough.
For one who does not heed,
A thousand explanations
Are not enough
Hajji Bektash Wali
13th Century Persian Mystic,
During the past twelve months, it has been reassuring to see vast numbers of individuals in the United States awaken to the reality that life on this planet has profoundly shifted and will never be the same. Many have radically altered their career goals, spending and saving patterns, and their long-term priorities. Whe…
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Added by Carolyn Baker on October 12, 2009 at 1:00pm —
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The conundrum we call human nature readily rises to the occasion of a crisis and as readily slacks off when the living is easy. During its decade of prosperity based on precarious financial schemes, Iceland grew politically apathetic and a little dull and demoralized. When its mismanaged economy crashed spectacularly in October 2008, furious citizens took action and a vibrant civil society emerged; it was the best and worst of times as the country lost its economic wealth and social poverty.…
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Added by Carolyn Baker on September 15, 2009 at 8:47am —
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Robin lives in Northern California
CB: Tell us a little about your background, where you grew up, your family, and the work you've been doing in recent years. I know that question is really a three-part question, so take plenty of time to answer those parts.
RR: I grew up in Los Angeles very close to LAX. I am an only child of middle class parents raised in other places, so I had very little family around me as a kid. Summers on Cape Cod with my mom's sister were my escape. My father, who gre…
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Added by Carolyn Baker on September 13, 2009 at 6:31pm —
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Sarah Edwards is an eco-psychologist, a Transition U.S. Trainer, and manages the ECO ANXIETY blogspot. She is also author of the foreword of Sacred Demise: Walking The Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization's Collapse
CB: Tell us a little about your background, where you grew up, your family, and the work you've been doing in recent years. I kn…
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Added by Carolyn Baker on September 1, 2009 at 5:10pm —
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There exists today, a trinity of situations that confronts those of us who live in Western culture: global climate change, the peak and eventual end of non-renewable sources of fossil fuels (oil and gas), and economic meltdown. These issues are old news for much of the world. We in the wealthier nations are going to join the global community in attempting to find ways to survive and live amidst enormously trying circumstances.
There are individuals who have been aware of these issues for decade…
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Added by Carolyn Baker on August 12, 2009 at 3:44pm —
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We started out just bringing muffins or extra eggs to neighbors. This has mushroomed into so much back and forth bartering, gifting and trading that it is just mind-boggling! It seems the closer we get to collapse, the more food, supplies, tools, and tips are shared. The more we give away, the more shows up, despite the fact that we are pagan anarchists a…
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Added by Carolyn Baker on July 27, 2009 at 7:23am —
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I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.
Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my wakin…
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Added by Carolyn Baker on July 26, 2009 at 11:14am —
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Not all people preparing for collapse by relocating, choose to do so in the U.S. Some, like Dr. John and Nancy Andre, have relocated in other countries. The Andres have retired in Chile and spend a great deal of time working on their organic farm
John practiced at the cutting edge of Chiropractic and Naturopathy for 35 years. Nancy was a state of the art DDS with a focus on toxin free…
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Added by Carolyn Baker on July 21, 2009 at 3:00pm —
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The recession is reminding Americans of a lesson they first learned in childhood: Share and share alike. They are sharing or swapping tools and books, cars and handbags, time and talent.
The renewed desire to share shows up in a variety of statistics: A car-sharing service has had a 70 percent membership increase since the recession set in. Governments are putting bikes on the street for public use. How-to-swap Web sites are proliferating.
"I think what happens in a recession or any sort of ec…
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Added by Carolyn Baker on July 20, 2009 at 4:37pm —
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[Here is my full response to Guardian reporter, Charlie Brooker's July 13 op ed piece "The Very Fabric of Society Is Breaking Down Around Us.--CB]
Hallelujah! One British reporter is waking up and smelling the coffee. That would be Charlie Brooker in his July 13 Guardian piece "The Very Fabric of Society Is Breaking Down Around Us. What The Hell Is There Left to Believe In"? This man, sounding as if his hair were on fire, rants:
It's all gone wrong. Our belief in everything has been…
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Added by Carolyn Baker on July 14, 2009 at 5:01pm —
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[In the next few months, Truth to Power will be featuring interviews with individuals who are consciously transitioning to a post-carbon lifestyle. In spite of the volumes being written about preparation for collapse, we rarely have the opportunity to hear real people discuss at length the process they have gone through and continue to navigate in their unique journeys through the Long Emergency. Some…
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Added by Carolyn Baker on July 13, 2009 at 8:33am —
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This morning as I was gathering news for Truth to Power's Daily News Digest, I opened Sharon Astyk's blogspot, one of my very favorite, to find her caustic commentary on the death and funeral of Michael Jackson. As her comments distilled in my mind and body, I realized that I have even more to say about this cultural phenomenon-no desire to say it better than Sharon because who could (?), but hopefully to embellish her inimitable incisiveness.
Now before proceeding, I ask the reader to refrain…
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Added by Carolyn Baker on July 8, 2009 at 10:00am —
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Individuals concerned with the unprecedented changes the earth community is undergoing tend to venerate America’s Amish for their simple, earth-based lifestyle of frugality and solid commitment to caring for the other members of their community. There is much we have to learn from them, but more recently, there is yet another lesson they offer, and perhaps, not one we expected.
A Wall St. Journal article, July 1 entitled, “A bank run teaches the ‘plain people’ about the risks of modernity”, by…
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Added by Carolyn Baker on July 2, 2009 at 3:17pm —
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Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean-
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-
who is ga…
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Added by Carolyn Baker on June 21, 2009 at 7:07am —
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