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Follow nature and avoid collapse

March 11, 2013 By

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.

Filed Under: AIDS, Books, Ellen LaConte, Transition Voice

Eating for the Cure

March 5, 2013 By

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.

Filed Under: AIDS, autoimmune, Books, Sally Fallon, Transition Voice, Weston A. Price

Burn your cash before it burns you

February 26, 2013 By

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.

Filed Under: Books, Mark Boyle, post-money economy, Transition Voice

Empathy: our strongest weapon against climate change?

February 18, 2013 By

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.

Filed Under: altruism, Climate, competition, empathy, Roman Krznaric, Transition Voice

Four things that were better in 1899

January 23, 2013 By

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.

Filed Under: 1890s, America, architecture, Arts, fashion, Food, James Howard Kunstler, Nineteenth Century, Transition Voice, transportation, Victorian Fashion

Will 2013 be the year globalization died?

January 14, 2013 By

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.

Filed Under: China, Chinese Imports, Economy, globalization, insourcing, James Howard Kunstler, oil, outsourcing, peak oil, Transition Voice

Letter from India: It takes a village

December 13, 2012 By

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?

Filed Under: Gandhi, globalization, India, population growth, Transition, Transition Voice, Village, Village Life

Ecology is turning me into a conservative

December 12, 2012 By

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.

Filed Under: climate change, conservatives, Edmund Burke, Energy, peak oil, Progress, Progressive, Protect The Planet, Real Conservative, Transition Voice

As farms go, so go the cities

December 30, 2011 By

Wendell Berry brings his Jeffersonian agrarian critique of industrial America straight into downtown in ‘What Matters? Economics for a Renewed Commonwealth.’

Filed Under: #OccupyWallStreet, Books, plutocracy, Transition Voice, Wendell Berry
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