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A Lesson of History - report from Mexico
by Albert Bates   
02 February 2009
Image This past week I have been working with some small town residents in rural Mexico in their preparations for petrocollapse, and naturally my first recommendation is to get out of the way of the peso, because it is coming down. Today it is trading at 15 to the dollar, which is great for people with dollars, but not so good if you are getting paid 150 pesos per day...
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Making the Best of a Slow Apocalypse
by Joe Bageant   
30 January 2009
[The main title of this essay as originally published is "The Sucker Bait Called Hope," but we felt its secondary title above reflects the main beauty of the piece which came out two months ago. -ed.]
We just concluded an election in which both parties talked about hope, one more so than the other. Hope, that murky, undefined belief that some unknown force, perhaps Jesus, or modern science, or some great political leader, or other -- as yet unknown force -- will reverse our national or personal condition...
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Climate Destroyers and Earthlings Clash over BAU (business as usual)
by Jan Lundberg   
27 January 2009
Critical Comment Culture Change Letter #232 - Dinosaurs are telling us we all have to die for them. Two historic news stories early this week underscored the clash between (A) defending corporate profits and the U.S. drive-by lifestyle and (B) actually trying to save the climate. In my town, the newspaper ironically put the former story on the top, with the latter right underneath -- the way a rape victim is underneath. Neither of the stories was page-one news, even though the readers were being hit with the major confirmation that CO2 buildup is "irreversible."
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Living now, naturally and sustainably via relocalizing
by Dave Ewoldt   
25 January 2009
Image“It is not a sign of good health to be well-adjusted to a sick society.” -- J. Krishnamurti

Answering the question of how to live our lives right now, in the face of global crises that cause stress and depression in all those not living in outright denial, is the new global imperative. But to deal with this question we must come to terms with what has caused it to be asked in the first place if we truly desire to formulate an effective and satisfying answer.
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Slouching Towards the Barackalypse
by Albert Bates   
24 January 2009
Image Watching the drama unfold in Washington last week, and listening to the sound as it echoed around the planet, I was struck by how bi-polar our shared political reality has become.

Many of us, probably the majority, are still hoping and praying that now that the wicked witch is dead, the Wizard will whisk us back to Kansas and Auntie Em will have a hot apple pie waiting.

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Secession: Why I Support A Second Vermont Republic
by Ian Baldwin   
22 January 2009
Image Ian Baldwin is an artist who co-founded the EF Schumacher Society (USA) and co-founded Chelsea Green (publisher of Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update). He is also co-founder of Vermont Commons that first published this essay. - ed.
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