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Why would someone go to a movie that is essentially an interview of someone else? Don't we go to movies to be entertained or watch documentaries in order to be inundated with voluminous information and breath-taking cinematography? What would compel anyone…
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Added by Carolyn Baker on November 9, 2009 at 11:42pm —
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Transition Colorado is thrilled to have launched the first edition of
TRANSITION TIMES, the Colorado Edition, on Friday, October 23. Although not officially part of the worldwide Transition movement, Transition Times will provide information and inspiration to the movement throughout the U.S. and around the world. Please check it out!
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Added by Carolyn Baker on October 26, 2009 at 12:51pm —
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For one who has perception,
A mere sign is enough.
For one who does not heed,
A thousand explanations
Are not enough
Hajji Bektash Wali
13th Century Persian Mystic,
During the past twelve months, it has been reassuring to see vast numbers of individuals in the United States awaken to the reality that life on this planet has profoundly shifted and will never be the same. Many have radically altered their career goals, spending and saving patterns, and their long-term priorities. Whe…
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Added by Carolyn Baker on October 12, 2009 at 2:58pm —
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Sarah Edwards is an eco-psychologist, a Transition U.S. Trainer, and manages the ECO ANXIETY blogspot. She is also author of the foreword of Sacred Demise: Walking The Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization's Collapse
CB: Tell us a little about your background, where you grew up, your family, and the work you've been doing in recent years. I know that questi…
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Added by Carolyn Baker on September 1, 2009 at 7:14pm —
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There exists today, a trinity of situations that confronts those of us who live in Western culture: global climate change, the peak and eventual end of non-renewable sources of fossil fuels (oil and gas), and economic meltdown. These issues are old news for much of the world. We in the wealthier nations are going to join the global community in attempting to find ways to survive and live amidst enormously trying circumstances.
There are individuals who have been aware of these issues for decade…
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Added by Carolyn Baker on August 12, 2009 at 5:43pm —
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We started out just bringing muffins or extra eggs to neighbors. This has mushroomed into so much back and forth bartering, gifting and trading that it is just mind-boggling! It seems the closer we get to collapse, the more food, supplies, tool…
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Added by Carolyn Baker on July 27, 2009 at 9:16am —
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I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.
Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my wakin…
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Added by Carolyn Baker on July 26, 2009 at 1:11pm —
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Not all people preparing for collapse by relocating, choose to do so in the U.S. Some, like Dr. John and Nancy Andre, have relocated in other countries. The Andres have retired in Chile and spend a great deal of time working on their organic farm
John practiced at the cutting edge of Chiropractic and Naturopathy for 35 years. Nancy was a state of the art DDS with a focus on toxin fr…
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Added by Carolyn Baker on July 21, 2009 at 4:30pm —
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The recession is reminding Americans of a lesson they first learned in childhood: Share and share alike. They are sharing or swapping tools and books, cars and handbags, time and talent.
The renewed desire to share shows up in a variety of statistics: A car-sharing service has had a 70 percent membership increase since the recession set in. Governments are putting bikes on the street for public use. How-to-swap Web sites are proliferating.
"I think what happens in a recession or any sort of ec…
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Added by Carolyn Baker on July 20, 2009 at 6:34pm —
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[Here is my full response to Guardian reporter, Charlie Brooker's July 13 op ed piece "The Very Fabric of Society Is Breaking Down Around Us.--CB]
Hallelujah! One British reporter is waking up and smelling the coffee. That would be Charlie Brooker in his July 13 Guardian piece "The Very Fabric of Society Is Breaking Down Around Us. What The Hell Is There Left to Believe In"? This man, sounding as if his hair were on fire, rants:
It's all gone wrong. Our belief in everything has been…
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Added by Carolyn Baker on July 14, 2009 at 6:30pm —
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[In the next few months, Truth to Power will be featuring interviews with individuals who are consciously transitioning to a post-carbon lifestyle. In spite of the volumes being written about preparation for collapse, we rarely have the opportunity to hear real people discuss at length the process they have gone through and continue to navigate in their unique journeys through the Long Emergency. Some…
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Added by Carolyn Baker on July 13, 2009 at 10:27am —
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This morning as I was gathering news for Truth to Power's Daily News Digest, I opened Sharon Astyk's blogspot, one of my very favorite, to find her caustic commentary on the death and funeral of Michael Jackson. As her comments distilled in my mind and body, I realized that I have even more to say about this cultural phenomenon-no desire to say it better than Sharon because who could (?), but hopefully to embellish her inimitable incisiveness.
Now before proceeding, I ask the reader to refrain…
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Added by Carolyn Baker on July 8, 2009 at 12:00pm —
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On July 11, 2008, the price of a barrel of oil hit a record $147.27 in daily trading. That same month, world crude oil production achieved a record 74.8 million barrels per day.
For years prior to this, a growing legion of analysts had been arguing that world oil production would max out around the year 2010 and begin to decline for reasons having to do with geology (we have found and picked the world’s “low-hanging fruit” in terms of giant oilfields), as well as lack of drilling rigs and train…
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Added by Carolyn Baker on July 6, 2009 at 5:26pm —
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Individuals concerned with the unprecedented changes the earth community is undergoing tend to venerate America’s Amish for their simple, earth-based lifestyle of frugality and solid commitment to caring for the other members of their community. There is much we have to learn from them, but more recently, there is yet another lesson they offer, and perhaps, not one we expected.
A Wall St. Journal article, July 1 entitled, “A bank run teaches the ‘plain people’ about the risks of modernity”, by…
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Added by Carolyn Baker on July 2, 2009 at 5:20pm —
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Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean-
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-
who is ga…
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Added by Carolyn Baker on June 21, 2009 at 9:01am —
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Recently, Transition Town founder, Rob Hopkins, and Peak Oil researcher and writer, Richard Heinberg, debated the pros and cons of planning for emergencies in transition communities as individuals organize to powerdown and localize to the fullest extent possible. The conversation was rich and thought-provoking, and both Hopkins and Heinberg offered incredibly important, diverse perspectives that widened my vision of the topic and reiterated for me the complexity of the issues involved. As with a…
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Added by Carolyn Baker on June 15, 2009 at 7:53pm —
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[Author: “Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil” and “A Presidential Energy Policy: Twenty-five points Addressing the Siamese Twins of Energy and Money”]
In the rare instances where I come across a book that is a feast for…
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Added by Carolyn Baker on June 2, 2009 at 3:23pm —
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Many years ago when I was a child, this holiday was not called Memorial Day, but rather, Decoration Day, owing to the standard practice of families visiting cemeteries to place flowers not only on the graves of fallen heroes, but on all the graves of the dearly departed. Since that time, the culture has chosen to emphasize remembering the war dead in our celebration of this holiday, but today, I would like to enlarge our perspective on its meaning and bring it closer to home for each of us.
Ind…
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Added by Carolyn Baker on May 24, 2009 at 12:10pm —
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There is no coming to consciousness without pain.
~Carl Jung~
Recently a friend told me that she had been talking up my book
Sacred Demise: Walking The Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization's Collapse and suggesting to friends who are aware of collapse that they read it. On several occasions the response was, "Well, I don't want to engage in ‘negative thinking'. I'd rather keep a positive attitude and stay hopeful in the face of what's going in on the world." When I heard this, I sm…
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Added by Carolyn Baker on May 10, 2009 at 5:23pm —
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Some economists and a president declare that there's a glimmer of hope, a light at the end of the tunnel, and that sometime in 2010, we'll begin to see a return to normal. The stock market bounces up and down, and pundits opine that the worst is behind us. The market has remained in the 7 or 8 thousands for a couple of weeks, so perhaps they're onto something. Maybe it was all a bad dream, and the worst recession in the history of the United States is waning, and the Second Great Depression that…
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Added by Carolyn Baker on April 18, 2009 at 12:56pm —
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