Society
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Is it important, or merely urgent?
It’s possible to be very busy without being very effective. Rushing from one task to another, feeling like you never…
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Personal Responsibility and the Power to Make a Difference
Staying focused on your own “response-ability”—your ability to choose your own responses—increases your personal power and expands the scope of…
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Are You Acting on Life or Is Life Acting on You?
In Part 1 and Part 2 of this Series we talked about how we live according to an often-unexamined story,…
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One Moment at a Time
In Part 1 of this Series we talked about how making a difference to any sized challenge in our lives…
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There Is Only One Place To Begin
January of a new year and a new decade is already over, and most of us have been reminded that…
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Permaculture and Death: Part 2
If we avoid thinking about death or do not accept death as part of life then we run the risk…
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Permaculture and Death – Part 1
As the balance of light and darkness during the day begins to tip even more towards darkness in the Northern…
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The Rebellion Hypothesis
‘On 31st October 2018, we assembled on Parliament Square in London to announce a Declaration of Rebellion against the…
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Access to land is a barrier to simpler, sustainable living.
Alex Baumann, Western Sydney University and Samuel Alexander, University of Melbourne Many of us do not need to hear any…
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The Advantages to Sustainability in Urban Areas
One of the defining aspects of our current civilisation and one of the most worrying trends of modernity, is our…
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The Question of Turning Back the Clock
I woke up this morning hoping to send some emails and get a bit of computer work done before heading…
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Two Diffrent Kinds of Healthcare – Part 1
The doctor visit and the pharmaceutical prescription usually get us back on the job quickly and with a minimum of…
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