Most of the people who take Adapting-In-Place, reasonably enough, are doing so because they intend to stay where they are or fairly nearby in the coming decades. They know that they may not be in the perfect place, but for a host of reasons - inability to sell a house, job or family commitments, love of place...you name it, they are going to stay.

A hurricane is a dynamic system.

We are told that in the US, the food on our table has traveled an average of 1500 miles and consumed 9 calories of energy for each food calorie on our plate.

Hardly a news cycle goes by these days without two seemingly contradictory things
happening: a police officer praises the “less lethal” TASER as his savior in a tight spot;
and, someone gets killed or seriously injured by a TASER.

The On-to-Ottawa Trek was a conjunctive event that escalated the class conflict of depression-era 30's in Kanada.

Tune into most online discussions of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico or the broader crisis of industrial civilization, and one thing you're sure to hear is a flurry of abstract plans and rhetorical claims. What lies behind these is magical thinking -- and if you're going to practice magic, the Archdruid suggests, take the time to learn how to do it right.

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