<p>In the anger phase of societal unraveling, we must not only be aware of its perils but prepare ourselves with great intention to navigate it. One of the first issues we must grapple with is the reality of trauma.

<p>This is exactly the problem, which is that if you try to preserve this austere vision of equality of opportunity, and you don't worry about the context of inequality in which it is embedded—a city like New York City, which is a vastly unequal place—the inequality of outcomes, the inequality of resources, the actual amount of inequality is going to subvert and corrupt whatever kind of mechanism

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/image_preview_93.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="54" /></span>-You might be screwed: Commencement Speech University of Oregon<br>-common pitfalls of challenger movements<br>-The Story of Change</p>

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/Screen shot 2012-07-18 at 4.55.12 PM-550x417.thumbnail.png" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="76" /></span>In development that feels strangely like kismet, an encampment of dispossessed young people who wish to opt out of the corporate system and reclaim a basic f

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<p>The last six months or so have seen an unprecedented flood of official pronouncements and media stories attempting, with dubious results, to brush aside the reality of peak oil. Those of my readers who know their way around old science fiction serials know what this means: something is about to explode.</p>

<p>I think we inevitably underestimate the bond between biological complexity and cultural complexity...It may seem far-fetched to compare social and agricultural change in Iowa with linguistic and biological correlation in some of Earth’s biodiversity hotspots. But the underlying premise is the same. Biological diversity and cultural diversity go hand in hand.</p>

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/barclays-vulture-logo.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="21" /></span>The Barclays story is an example of what happens when an organisation's "Core Group" turns malign.</p>

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/Unlearn,Rewild~CvrProof3.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="65" height="100" /></span>One of the least useful words in the English language is the word "wilderness." I grew up wandering the woods, and, to me, where the road and the trail end and the animal (and h

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/Terraced-Rice-Paddy-Ubud-Area-Bali-Indonesia-440x330.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="75" /></span>Balinese farmers have been growing rice in terraces since at least the eleventh century.

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/magicwand.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="75" /></span>These days, it's as if Americans are permanently and pervasively stuck at age seven, more focused on the imaginative powers of Harry Potter's wand and Buffy the Vampire Slayer (or the latest i

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/HopeCrossroads-200x300.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="67" height="100" /></span>So what do we do now? At what point does one realize that his or her paradigm isn't working anymore, and give up and walk out on empire?

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/2a29a__7460083542_ba22e03864_b.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="71" /></span>How the idea of the "Core Group" helps us understand the Barclays' rate-fixing scandal.</p>

<p><span class="inline inline-left"><img src="http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/images/simplicity-fig1.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" class="image image-thumbnail" width="100" height="60" /></span>While Tainter’s theory of social complexity has much to commend it, in this paper I wish to examine and ultimately challenge Tainter’s conclusion that voluntary simplification is not a v

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