This Land Is Sacred
How the Sacred is Excluded by Industrial Economism
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Musings on Ecology and Planetary Life
Climate, ecology, regeneration, the living world, and the planetary conditions for human and non-human flourishing.
A Mandate for Life
Synopsis: Three people must be persuaded before any democracy changes how it explains and governs itself: the expert adviser who seeks only to please the client, the politician whose seat depends on present...
Too Gentle by Half
Synopsis: Why do societies mock the tenderness they claim to admire?
Postponed Until Further Notice
The rapture and other improbable notions circulated by the idiocracy
No More Optimism Please. More Imagination
Synopsis: Our dread of the future may be less a failure of imagination than an accurate reading of the present.
What Life’s All About
We live, let’s be honest, in a world that appears to be losing its mind.
Beyond the Reach of Recovery
Collapse, Ecology, and the Unforgiving Present
Some Truths About Getting Old
Modern society has developed a peculiar habit of romanticising old age.
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The Illusion of Sustainability
Debt, Control, and the Mirage of the UN's SDGs
Outside The Prayer Hall
When Feelings Arrive Before Words
Beyond the Final Curtain
Consciousness, Quantum Reality, and the Illusion of Death
Sufficiency as Civilisational Threshold
I am not an economist.
The Blind Craftsman
There’s a feeling that most people carry but very few can name precisely.
Wearing Clothes & Making Stuff
The future of the apparel and allied industries
The Note That Almost Wasn't
A Personal Revelation Recently Discovered
The Thread That Frayed
Wholeness in a Civilisation Built on its Opposite
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