Breaking American Democracy’s Ties to Capitalism Editor’s Note

Breaking American Democracy’s Ties to Capitalism
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Can Communities Control Their Own Economy? Twenty-five years ago, I was living in the city of Philadelphia, engaged in a two-year study of the city’s Empowerment Zone project.

Can Communities Control Their Own Economy?
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What Does It Mean to Belong? This week’s Crisis and Transition post “Who Really Is a Citizen?

What Does It Mean to Belong?
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Becoming a Local Person in Today’s World A reflection of my journey to integrating my socio-economic interests and consciously choosing my circumstances to become a local.

Becoming a Local Person in Today’s World
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Who Really Is a Citizen? And Who Is Not? Trump v.

Who Really Is a Citizen? And Who Is Not?
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What Sustains Us Through Change This week’s Crisis and Transition post, “Building the Human Beings is of Utmost Importance,” turns our attention inward at a time when so much of our focus is on systems, crises, and structural change.

What Sustains Us Through Change
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Building the Human Beings is of Utmost Importance I once tried to break out of a police paddy wagon.

Building the Human Beings is of Utmost Importance
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Neohumanism: The Only Open Road into the Future During the past month, we’ve been reminded once again that the world has become very small.

Neohumanism: The Only Open Road into the Future
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Then There Was Minneapolis . . . About 20 years ago, many in my circle who were interested in “wide boundary” thinking (thanks to Nate Hagens for this term) were tracking literature related to peak oil — reading Michael Ruppert, Jame...

Then There Was Minneapolis . . .
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Who Shapes the Soul of an Age? This week’s Crisis and Transition post, “Identifying the Spiritual Sage of Our Age,” reflects on a question that feels both timeless and deeply relevant to the moment we are living through: how do we ...

Who Shapes the Soul of an Age?
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From Surviving to Thriving I want to share a vision with you that makes me optimistic

From Surviving to Thriving
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Identifying the Spiritual Sage of Our Age In 2018 I took my daughter — then a university art student — to see Loving Vincent, a visually stunning biopic on the last days of the Dutch post-impressionist painter, Vincent van Gogh.

Identifying the Spiritual Sage of Our Age
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How Change Is Carried Forward This week’s Crisis and Transition post, “Keep the Little Flame Alive,” offers a powerful reminder that the arc of social progress is carried forward not only by systems and institutions, but by the hu...

How Change Is Carried Forward
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Keep the Little Flame Alive Last Friday, my wife took me to a concert.

Keep the Little Flame Alive
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Between the Local and the Planetary This week’s Crisis and Transition post, “Local Economic Empowerment and Global Political Authority,” invites us to consider a structural question that is rarely discussed openly: if the problems human...

Between the Local and the Planetary
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Local Economic Empowerment and Global Political Authority We Need to be Talking About Planetary Government

Local Economic Empowerment and Global Political Authority
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Hope Through Rupture This week’s Crisis and Transition post, “We’ve Been Dealt the Best Hand Possible — Really,” attempts something bold: offering hope in the face of what looks like civilizational unraveling.

Hope Through Rupture
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Rebuilding is more than replacing what was lost.

🌺 Native plants that belong here.
🌿 Yards that require less water.
🔥 Landscapes that lower fire risk.

Beauty and resilience can live side by side.

#RegenMaui #NativePlants #AlohaAina #LahainaStrong #CommunityResilience

We’ve Been Dealt the Best Hand Possible — Really How We Are on a Pathway to Survive the Polycrisis

We’ve Been Dealt the Best Hand Possible — Really
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How we build shapes how we care for it.
🌧 Catch the rain.
🌿 Reuse what we can.
💧 Choose climate-wise landscapes.
Small choices protect what sustains us.
Rebuilding Lāhainā means rebuilding our relationship with water.
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No LNG for Hawaii Last summer Governor Green made a shocking announcement that the state should reconsider importing liquefied natural gas, (LNG), and tasked the Hawaii State Energy Office with conducting an analysis t...

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From Shame to Responsibility This week’s Crisis and Transition post, “Daddy, I’m Ashamed to be Human”, begins with a story that is hard to shake.

From Shame to Responsibility
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“Daddy, I’m Ashamed to be Human” Requirements to Sustain Civilization

“Daddy, I’m Ashamed to be Human”
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On the Edge of an Era There is something striking about the convergence of voices cited in this week’s Crisis and Transition post, “America on the Precipice of a Change of Era.” Timothy Snyder.

On the Edge of an Era
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America on the Precipice of a Change of Era When Rachel Maddow covers a news story for which she needs an expert on authoritarian governments she gets Yale historian Timothy Snyder.

America on the Precipice of a Change of Era
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Naming the Economy We’re Reaching For This week’s Crisis and Transition post asks a deceptively simple question: “What is this kind of economy called?’ But beneath that question lies something far more consequential.

Naming the Economy We’re Reaching For
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What is This Kind of an Economy Called? There have been two major types of economic systems in the modern era, that of capitalism and of communism.

What is This Kind of an Economy Called?
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An Economy that Works for Everybody An Introduction to Economic Democracy and PROUT

An Economy that Works for Everybody
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The Question Beneath the Crisis This week’s Crisis and Transitions post, “The Final Battle,” sits with a question that feels both historical and immediate: how do we prevent democratic backsliding once the most visible threat recede...

The Question Beneath the Crisis
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The Final Battle Response to Heather Cox Richardson’s Question

The Final Battle
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