Introduction and Table of Contents
May 14, 2011
I am Robert Riversong, prophet, teacher, guide, midwife for a world struggling to be born.
You are a spark of the universal flame. Welcome to the journey.
Contents:
What Does “Green” Really Mean?
Altimeter Readers and Parachute Packers
A New Green History of the World – Clive Ponting
Gaia and the Dying of Anima Mundi – Animate Earth, Stephan Harding
Collision Course with the Future – based on Gus Speth’s The Bridge at the Edge of the World
Crossing the Threshold – Charles Eisenstein Sacred Economics at Reality Sandwich
The Lost Language of Plants – Stephen Harrod Buhner
Out of Equilibrium – Into the Maelstrom
The Thermodynamics of an Intelligent Living Universe
Science & Religion – Locking Horns
Civil War: The Conquest of Agrarianism by Industrialism
Short History of Property, Labor, Wealth, Profit & Taxation
The Myth of Corporate Personhood
Five essays on the takeover of American democracy by corporations and how we can – and must – take it back for We the People.
- The Pernicious Fiction of Corporate Personhood
- Corporations are Not People
- Justice Lewis Powell and the Rise of the Corporate State
- “A Constant Preference of Public to Private Interest”
- The People’s Rights Amendment
The End of the World – Bibliography of Collapse
Health Impacts of a Grain-Based Agriculture
Lead, Crime & Societal Breakdown – A Cautionary Tale of Unintended Consequences
Wow! What an AMAZING blog! I LOVE it! That poem by John Squadra is beautiful. Dare I say it? It STONES me.
I feel obliged to comment.
I have been thinking lately about the “Modern Western” cultural norm of creating ‘barriers’ to our given environments when it comes to built structures. I have for a long time often wondered if there needs to be a very clear paradigm shift in the building and design field toward the approach to modern (sic) shelter that recognizes the reality of an INTERACTIVE model/process with any given environment and actively moves beyond the industry driven consumer illusions of what shelter/home/workplace is or ‘should be – based on these ‘Barriers.” We have an entire planet of interaction staring us in the face as an example.
You are indeed one of the few out there that recognizes this need for a paradigm shift.
Nothing humans now undertake is sustainable, just as nothing is permanent, but the opportunity for something ‘appropriate’ still has an opportunity to manifest.
thanx smalld
smalld: Thanks for your comment and perceptions about the need to shift our thinking on shelter as a gateway rather than a barrier to the natural world.
As a pioneer designer/builder of passive solar super-insulated, relatively natural, healthy and affordable homes for the past 30 years, and an instructor of sustainable design and construction for the past six years, I’ve also given these issues a great deal of attention.
My philosophy on shelter is spelled out in my other blog, Riversong HouseWright – A Home for Sensible Homes. The essays numbered 1 to 10 are a series I was invited to write for BuildingGreen.com. I’ve added an introduction (#00) to complete “Riversong’s Radical Reflections on Shelter”. I invite you (and others) to peruse them.