Follow nature and avoid collapse

Competition may seem like one of history’s motivators to greatness, but a new book argues that competition is natural for neither humans nor other life forms.

Eating for the Cure

Type two diabetes, chronic fatigue, lupus and arthritis continue to spread despite new drugs and treatments. A new book says that the modern diet may be at fault.

Burn your cash before it burns you

Mark Boyle, known as “the Moneyless Man,” lived without cash for three years. His latest book tries to convince the rest of us that doing the same isn’t that hard.

Empathy: our strongest weapon against climate change?

Taking serious action against climate change may be less about Obama getting around Congress than about citizens getting around their own egoism and finding empathy.

Four things that were better in 1899

Not everything in 1890s America was better than today — just food, shelter and clothing. And the economy too. Now, all could be models of resilience for the future.

Will 2013 be the year globalization died?

The end of cheap oil and high transportation costs, long predicted by peak oilers, could finally make Chinese imports more expensive than Made in the USA in 2013.

In 2013, you’ll need good writing more than ever

Ever since the advent of social media turned the Web from a one-way medium with website owners talking to passive audiences into a truly interactive, two-way conservation where audiences can talk back, the demands for higher quality internet content, especially writing, have increased. Don’t sell me; talk to me In the past, customers and other [...]

Letter from India: It takes a village

India has a lesson for the world as it hurtles down the path of globalization. Will it sell its soul for a mess of consumer goods or return to its village roots?

Ecology is turning me into a conservative

To fight climate change and deal with peak oil and economic collapse, we don’t need more progress. W\e need is to save what works. And that means being Conservative.