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What Happens Next: A Timeline for Civilizational Collapse

How to Save the World -- BLOG A Timeline for Civilizational CollapseA number of readers have asked me for an "elevator speech" that describes how I think our civilization will collapse by the end of this century. Being more of a "picture" person I decided to try to answer that question graphically. The result is shown above.There seems to be a growing consensus among those who have studied the history of civilizations, pa...     11-24
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The Environmentalist's Dilemma: No Point in Arguing

How to Save the World -- BLOG The Environmentalist's Dilemma: No Point in ArguingThe last two days in Ithaca at the (extraordinarily well organized -- thanks Sarah & Emily!) Net Impact seminar were an eye-opener for me. On the one hand, I really got the sense that the largely-young crowd of 2400 attendees was pretty naive about how much of an impact their actions will and can have on the social and environmental behav...     11-16
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Links and Tweets of the Week: November 14, 2009

How to Save the World -- BLOG Links and Tweets of the Week: November 14, 2009 Cartoon by David Sipress in The New YorkerPREPARING FOR CIVILIZATION'S COLLAPSE:How the Rich Can Stop Hurting the Poor: Sharon Astyk adds her own recommendations to the Transition Initiative's recommendations, in an interview with Vandana Shiva, to help reduce the exploitation of struggling nations:Do not buy or eat any industrial meat – p...     11-15
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REPOST: Do We Really Want to Know? (with first 50 reader comments appended)

How to Save the World -- BLOG Comments on November 4, 2009 post "Do We Really Want to Know?" not yet postedBecause Radio Userland is capping comments at 50 per article, and because I wanted to capture these comments for posterity anyway, and because some people wanted to post more comments, I'm reposting my article from November 4, 2009, with the first 50 comments embedded at the end of the article, so there should be roo...     11-11
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Hacking the Tar Sands: Some Early Thoughts

How to Save the World -- BLOG Hacking the Tar Sands One of the projects I'm proposing to undertake over the next few months is facilitating the organization of opponents to the Alberta Tar Sands and holding Open Space brainstorming sessions to identify creative, clever ways to disrupt and ultimately close down the Tar Sands without anyone getting hurt or arrested. This will take a lot of ingenuity, and I think I can contr...     11-11
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Links and Tweets of the Week -- November 7, 2009

How to Save the World -- BLOG Links and Tweets of the Week -- November 7, 2009 What's wrong with this picture? The Standard & Poor's 500 Public US Companies' P/E ratio has historically traded at around 17, which assumes healthy growth in profits for big corporations indefinitely into the future. What, then, does a P/E ratio of 150 mean? It means that trillions of dollars of taxpayer money (which future generations wil...     11-08
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Do We Really Want to Know?

How to Save the World -- BLOG Do We Really Want to Know the Truth?There's an interesting article by Elizabeth Kolbert in this week's New Yorker on vegetarianism, and specifically on the disconnect between our adoration of pets and our tolerance for the horrific, lifelong suffering of the animals we eat. It's really about human nature, Kolbert argues, and specifically that we just don't want to know about atrocities and su...     11-04
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Words to the Wise

How to Save the World -- BLOG Words to the Wise The grid above is not connected to the clues below. If you want to try one of my complete puzzles, you'll find this grid, and the clues to it, and a link to the answers, here.For many years I've been a fan of crossword puzzles, and occasionally I'll stumble across a clue that is devilishly clever. I keep scribbling them down, and today, for a change of pace, I'm going to inf...     11-03
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The Use and Uselessness of Anger

How to Save the World -- BLOG The Use and Uselessness of AngerAll my life, I've had a temper, and three years ago, when the stress of anger precipitated a debilitating attack of ulcerative colitis that left me wishing I was dead, I learned the high cost of not knowing how to cope with it. Now I know, and it's easier, but it's not easy.Anger is a natural reaction, and it's been selected for in our evolution because it's us...     11-02
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Links and Tweets of the Week: October 31, 2009 (Scary Hallowe'en Edition)

How to Save the World -- BLOG Links and Tweets of the Week: October 31, 2009 (Scary Hallowe'en Edition)PREPARING FOR CIVILIZATION'S COLLAPSEHere Comes the End of Debt: Stoneleigh from Automatic Earth, in an interview with The Oil Drum Europe, argues that we're in for an unprecedented and prolonged deflationary period, and that while wages will plunge, so will prices of everything, even oil and gold as demand falls faster ...     11-01
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Maybe That's What It Takes

How to Save the World -- BLOG Maybe That's What It Takes As my retirement looms closer, I've been giving some more thought about exactly what I'll be doing with my days when I retire. In my previous post Intention to Practice I summarized the nine steps that I am following (and urging others to follow, in their own way) to make the world a better place, illustrated in the graphic above. To implement these practically into...     10-29
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Bailouts for Dummies

How to Save the World -- BLOG Bailouts for DummiesLately I've been reading more about economics, in self-defence against all the corporatist-government thievery and lies going on out there.I'm aware that most people find what is happening in our economy and financial systems unfathomable, so I thought I'd try to simplify the complex. I confess up front this is a substantial over-simplification, and I'm not a professional ...     10-28
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Dave Talks With Themselves

How to Save the World -- BLOG Dave Talks With ThemselvesPssst! Hey, you! Mind Figment Processor That Believes Itself To Be 'Dave' (M-BID)!* It's us, the Complicity of Dave's Organs (CODO). You know, the 'real' Dave you have deluded yourself into believing'you' somehow embody. Why are you sitting around making our fingers write blog articles when you should be contacting that woman 'Kira' who you met at that party a couple...     10-26
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Links and Tweets of the Week: October 24, 2009

How to Save the World -- BLOG Links and Tweets of the Week: October 24, 2009 PREPARING FOR CIVILIZATION'S COLLAPSEWhy Demonstrations Aren't (Nearly) Enough: Keith Farnish, who made the 'alternative' 350ppm logo above, argues that if we really think that participating in a 350.org event is going to achieve anything, we're delusional. "If an international grassroots movement holds our leaders accountable to the latest clima...     10-25
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Nobody Knows Anything

How to Save the World -- BLOG Nobody Knows Anything It's been forty years since I graduated from high school, and I've spent most of that forty years in the business world. Now I'm about to retire and I'm thinking back on what I've learned that will be useful as I begin my nine intentional practices that I hope will really make a difference in the world.I think the most important thing I've learned is captured in Charles ...     10-22
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World Made By Hand

How to Save the World -- Since I'm working on a novel and/or screenplay called The Only Life We Know, set in 2200, long after industrial civilization's collapse, I'm busy researching other utopian/dystopian novels about the future. James Kunstler's book World Made By Hand was an obvious choice, since Kunstler is an experienced novelist and one of the most informed and articulate speakers on civilization's impending collap...     10-20
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Invitation to KMWorld 2009

How to Save the World -- BLOG Invitation to KMWorld 2009I'm not sure whether, since I'm retiring soon, I'll be invited to present at Knowledge Management conferences from now on. So if you're able to make it to KMWorld 2009 in San Jose November 16-19 this year, I'd love to see you. I'm running a half-day workshop, Introducing Web 2.0 to Your Organization: A Practical Guide, on Monday, November 16. Then on Tuesday November...     10-20
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Links and Tweets of the Week: October 17, 2009

How to Save the World -- BLOG Links and Tweets of the Week: October 17, 2009PREPARING FOR CIVILIZATION'S COLLAPSETheCascading Crises of Civilizational Collapse: An excellent, fact-packed, carefully-argued explanation of peak oil and how it will, in combination with other crises of this century, bring about civilization's collapse, by Andre Angelantoni, is available in a free series of videos (images above are excerpts fro...     10-18
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Sustainable Work, Sustainable Life

How to Save the World -- BLOG Sustainable Work, Sustainable Life Earlier this month I wrote about the possibility of developing a Finding Your Sweet Spot Workbook to accompany my book Finding the Sweet Spot. I proposed a schema of nine types of what might be called Natural Work, that might help people hone in on their Gifts (what they're uniquely good at doing) and their Passions (what they love doing):Explorers, whose wo...     10-16
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Confused and Abused (oops I Mean Misused) Words

How to Save the World -- BLOG Confused and Abused WordsSee how many of these word pairs you've confused in your writing. These are the subtlest (and hence easiest-to-get-wrong) word pairs from a list of several hundred on the Alpha Dictionary site. 22 of the Most Often Confused Words in English:Abused vs Misused: Abuse implies improper or immoral; misuse implies inappropriate or mistaken Continual vs Continuous: Continual...     10-14
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