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John Michael Greer's Blog
March 17, 2010
- For those watching current affairs with an eye sharpened by history, it’s been quite a week since the last <i>Archdruid Report</i> post came out. For starters, American politicians and pundits have gone in for another round of China-bashing, insisting that China’s manipulation of its currency is unacceptable to us. Since the US is manipulating its own currency at least as ...
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March 10, 2010
- These days plenty of promoters are pushing grandiose projects for huge, centralized power plants using solar energy. With the aid of two forgotten inventors and a glass of brandy, the Archdruid demonstrates why the best use of solar energy lies in a completely different direction. The latest post from The Archdruid Report.
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March 3, 2010
- Perhaps the most important and least appreciated detail of the crisis of industrial society hinges on the difference between energy and exergy -- that is, between the quantity of energy and its concentration. With the aid of a friendly solar water heater, the Archdruid explains all in this latest post from The Archdruid Report.
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February 24, 2010
- No, to borrow a phrase, they aren't the three suggestions of thermodynamics -- and they have a huge amount to teach us about the shape of the economy that will emerge in the deindustrial era ahead of us. The latest post from The Archdruid Report.
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February 17, 2010
- If, as last week's Archdruid Report post suggests, the United States is becoming a Third World country, the alternative methods of pursuing Third World economic development proposed by maverick economist E.F. Schumacher may become a significant resource. The latest post from The Archdruid Report.
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February 10, 2010
- Among the varied efforts to imagine what a postpetroleum America would look like, one of the most likely possibilities -- the impoverished, crowded, dysfunctional nations of the contemporary Third World -- has rarely been noticed. Maybe it's time to change that. The latest post from The Archdruid Report.
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February 3, 2010
- For decades now, people concerned about the future of industrial civilization have warned that sooner or later the point would arrive when the consequences of all that short-term thinking would start coming home to roost. For America, that point may be now. The latest from The Archdruid Report.
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January 27, 2010
- A flurry of discussion about community in the peak oil blogosphere has mostly assumed that Americans had their communities taken away from them by circumstances, if not by some sinister cabal. In fact, though, most Americans actively walked away from their communities and continue to do so. Maybe it's time that we ask why. The latest post from The Archdruid Report.
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January 20, 2010
- You've probably walked or driven past them a hundred times -- the old fraternal lodge halls, remnants of one of the core infrastructures of America's nearly extinct civil society -- and never given them a second glance. They might just hold the key to a central response to the decline of the industrial age. The latest post from The Archdruid Report.
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January 13, 2010
- These days nearly everyone wraps the concept of community in warm emotional rhetoric. So how come so many people would gladly run a mile in cheap galoshes to avoid the experience of community? The Archdruid explains all, in the latest post from The Archdruid Report.
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January 6, 2010
- These days corporations are becoming the thing many Americans most love to hate, and there are good reasons for that. Those who fantasize about seeing a corporation hauled off to jail or dangling from a gallows might just get their way. The Archdruid explains how, in the latest post from The Archdruid Report.
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December 30, 2009
- Having argued in the last three posts that constructive change is impossible in contemporary America, the Archdruid launches into a quixotic exploration of the constructive changes he'd like to propose. Check out the method in his madness in the latest post from The Archdruid Report.
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December 23, 2009
- The failure of the Copenhagen climate talks has been blamed on everything from Chinese intransigence to Barack Obama's failure to live up to the messianic fantasies projected onto him. Behind the rhetoric, though, lies an uncomfortable reality: the political systems of America and most other industrial nations are pinned in political cul-de-sacs that make them incapable of constructive change. ...
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December 16, 2009
- Remember the days when systems theory was going to save the world? If you weren't around in the Seventies, no, you probably don't. A cautionary tale about the limited power of good ideas, in the latest post on The Archdruid Report.
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December 9, 2009
- As the world's leaders meet in Copenhagen to avoid doing anything about global climate change, it's time to start talking about the reasons why our society -- like so many others in the past -- insists on making the collective choices that will destroy it. The first of a three-part series from The Archdruid Report.
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