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Faith in Transition

Sunday, July 12, 2009

Update: 16/07/09 See Dan Dennett on “Belief in belief” here Updates: I’ve just put a couple of updates for clarification and a couple more links. I’ve marked them in the text. I also want to say, whatever about my concerns regarding the ideology behind Transition, there is heaps of great work being done in the [...]

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Book Review: The Long Descent

Thursday, December 11, 2008

The Long Descent- A Users Guide to the End of the Industrial Age John Michael Greer New Society Publishers 2008 John Michael Greer has written a fascinating and engaging, but also contradictory and perplexing account of how he sees the industrial age ending. His primary thesis is that collapse will not come as a sudden, [...]

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Consciousness in Transition

Saturday, April 19, 2008

At Convergence 13 I hosted two workshops: the first was an introduction to Permaculture, with a focus on Permaculture education and how to spread Permaculture courses through the mainstream education system; the second, with Dave Yaffey and Chris Chapman, had the title “Consciousness in Transition: Exploring Values for Changing Times”. The purpose was to explore [...]

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