Retrotopia: Learning Lessons
Our narrator finishes up his trip to a tier one county, and starts to notice ways in which the Lakeland Republic has gone neither forwards nor backwards, but off on an angle all its own…
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Are Positive Stories Enough?
In a world filled with melting ice caps, war, species extinctions, and economic peril, how can I possibly argue that the small-scale actions I write about can transform the bigger picture for the better?
A Transition review, in 7 Episodes, of ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’
Like so very many people, I fell for the hype and took my kids to see the new Star Wars film…I thought it might be fun to ease my way back into 2016 blogging by offering some Transition-related thoughts on it.
Paris: the Untold Story
This is a report about COP21 that didn’t make the headlines…
Retrotopia: A Gift to be Simple
Our narrator ventures out of Toledo into a tier one rural county and sees one of the alternative cultures taking shape in the Lakeland Republic.
The Flutter of Space Bat Wings
You don’t actually know a time or a culture until you discover the thoughts that its people can’t allow themselves to think.
The Shadows of the Cave
Some of us prefer sun and wind and depth and color to the play of shadows on the walls of the cave.
What is Degrowth? Envisioning a Prosperous Descent
Our high priests now take the peculiar form of neoclassical economists, bankers, and national treasurers.
The Patience of the Sea
America just now, after all, has more than a little in common with an October day in Ocean City.
Undying: the Life and Death of an Indigo Cloth
The life history of indigo dyed things captures the life and death of social values, relationships, and structures in India and China.
A Beacon in the Sand
It is this force, this idea of progress, with which we need to contend.
Crafting A New Narrative: Charles Eisenstein
Chris and Becca Martenson talk cultural stories with Charles Eisenstein.