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Humility and the myth of limitlessness

Blog 'Humility and the Myth of Limitlessness' by L. M. Sacasas. Photo by Hans Veth on Unsplash

I might be wrong about this, but it seems that over the last couple of years more and more people have been working their way to the conclusion that modern society is fundamentally broken – not just broken in a […]

Filed Under: Happiness, Inner transformation, Technology Tagged With: happiness, mental health, technology, well-being

Attending to the world

Attending to the world Local Futures blog

“Attention discourse” is my term for the proliferation of articles, essays, books, and op-eds about attention and distraction in the age of digital media. I don’t mean the label pejoratively. I’ve made my own contributions to the genre, in my […]

Filed Under: Inner transformation, Nature, Technology Tagged With: depression, mental health, nature, technology

The inner dimension of climate adaptation

The inner dimension of climate adaptation - blog Local Futures

Capitalism in its earliest incarnation dates back to the end of Europe’s medieval period. ‘Growth’, such as it was, first manifested itself in the innovation and creativity of the Renaissance, while economic expansion in the commonly understood sense was to […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Economic Growth and Degrowth, Environment, Inner transformation Tagged With: climate change, degrowth, economic growth, sustainability, well-being

Source Temple and the Great Reset

Blog 'Source Temple and the Great Reset' by Charles Eisenstein

I recently visited a spiritual community in Brazil called Source Temple. Drawing primarily on the teachings of Adi Da and A Course in Miracles, it comprises about thirty people from about ten countries, mostly Brazil and South America, ranging in […]

Filed Under: Community, Development, Economic Growth and Degrowth, Free Trade and Globalization, Inner transformation, Localization Tagged With: community, degrowth, economic growth, economics, globalization, localization, South, trade agreements

Not Giving up on Happiness: Care of the Self and Well-Being in a Plague Year

The specter of plague haunts our world, and it brings with it not only the ghouls of disease and death but vast economic and social uncertainty of a sort only the most elderly among us remembers (the Great Depression and […]

Filed Under: Happiness, Health, Inner transformation Tagged With: depression, happiness, health, mental health, pandemic, well-being

We Can’t Do It Ourselves

How to live a more sustainable life? This question generates a lot of debate that is focused on what individuals can do in order to address problems like climate change. For example, people are encouraged to shop locally, to buy organic […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Environment, Inner transformation, Livelihoods and jobs Tagged With: climate change, consumerism, economic growth, economics, sustainability, systems thinking

Thinking Outside the Grid

Thirty years ago, a friend of mine published a book called 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save The Earth. It described the huge environmental benefits that would result if everyone made some simple adjustments to their way of […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Consumerism, Environment, Food and Farming, Inner transformation, Local energy Tagged With: climate change, community, corporations, local food, localization, renewable energy

Old Mother Forest

I live across a small stream from an ancient rainforest in Wayanad, Kerala. It has a constancy that’s baffling, appearing more or less the same to me for all the years I’ve been here. The forest sustains. As do you […]

Filed Under: Environment, Indigenous worldview, Inner transformation Tagged With: climate change, culture, health, indigenous, technology

Groomed to Consume

This blog is also available in Russian and Spanish. With Christmas coming up, household consumption will soon hit its yearly peak in many countries. Despite homely pictures of tranquility on mass-produced greeting cards, Christmas is more about frenzied shopping and […]

Filed Under: Consumerism, Economic Growth and Degrowth, Inner transformation Tagged With: community, consumerism, corporations, economic growth, happiness, mental health, sustainability

Jacques Ellul: A Prophet for Our Tech-Saturated Times

By now you have probably read about the so-called “tech backlash.” Facebook and other social media have undermined what’s left of the illusion of democracy, while smartphones damage young brains and erode the nature of discourse in the family. Meanwhile […]

Filed Under: Education, Inner transformation, Technology Tagged With: corporate control, corporations, technology

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