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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 ...     2009
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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...     2009
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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 ...     2009
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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...     2009
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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...     2009
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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 ...     2009
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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...     2009
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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...     2009
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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...     2009
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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...     2009
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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...     2009
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Natural Learning

How to Save the World -- BLOG Natural Learning Since the recent Unschooling conference call that Jerry Michalski put together, I've come to realize how much damage schooling does to us, and how essential it is for us to rediscover natural learning, if we hope to make the world a better place. I intend to create a "personal practice guide to unschooling" over the next year, and I'm starting to think what it might contain.B...     2009
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Intention to Practice

How to Save the World -- BLOG Intention to PracticeA couple of years ago I posted some mid-year and year-end "intentions", to distinguish them from "resolutions". Intentions are not aspirations; they are things we are in the process of doing, achieving, or becoming. They are what we're meant to do, and who we're meant to be. We have already begun to realize them. They are, as the word's etymology implies, what we are "str...     2009
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The Problem with Rights

How to Save the World -- BLOG The Problem with RightsThere's an interesting editorial in the NYT today that argues that, abhorrent as they might be, videos depicting extreme animal cruelty should not be banned in the US, because to do so would undermine the right of free speech/expression. The Supreme Court, it appears, is poised to agree with them, in reviewing a recent ruling from an appeal court.The Times' editorial st...     2009
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A 'Finding the Sweet Spot' Workbook?

How to Save the World -- BLOG A Finding the Sweet Spot Workbook? Since my book Finding the Sweet Spot was published, I've been thinking about how to make it more useful. I did set up a companion website, but I was far too ambitious in its design, and was naive in the expectation that people could/would actually compare ideas, Gifts, Passions and Purposes with others online, and that there would be anough traffic on the si...     2009
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Links and Tweets of the Week: October 3, 2009

How to Save the World -- BLOG Links and Tweets of the Week: October 3, 2009 westcoast indian art -- a mask open to reveal another mask -- from the mcmichael collection (artist name misplaced)PREPARING FOR CIVILIZATION'S COLLAPSEEndgame: If there was any remaining doubt that we're too late to rescue civilization from collapse, the latest climate change report has put it to rest. This report predicts at least a 6.3 degree C...     2009
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What Would a Better World Look Like?

How to Save the World -- BLOG What Would a Better World Look Like?In a post last week Sharon Astyk challenged us to create a vision of a world that works better than our failing, unsustainable one. Not an impracticable ideal, but something we can actually envision in our lifetime, or as Sharon puts it, is immediately accessible. A vision is not a strategy, and does not have to deal with the issues of how we get there from...     2009
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More Thoughts About Intentionality, Split and Otherwise

How to Save the World -- BLOG More About Intentionality In my post last week I described Gil Fronsdal's meditation on intentionality, and the value of setting both long term (What do you intend to do with what's left of your life?) and short term (What do you intend to do, now, today, this week?) intentions, and getting them somehow aligned. Intentions are more than aspirations or resolutions, they are "stretching toward"...     2009
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Links and Tweets of the Week: September 26, 2009

How to Save the World -- BLOG Links and Tweets of the Week: September 26, 2009 fun with figures: the top chart shows historical levels of atmospheric CO2 (180 to 300 ppm) back through the last half million years until about 1850, and the current unprecedented level of 386 ppm (and still rising); the second chart shows the International Panel on Climate Change's model of the worst (1100 ppm) and the best (just under 500 pp...     2009
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Leaning Towards Intention

How to Save the World -- BLOG Leaning Towards IntentionMy last few posts have been part of my process of deciding what I'm going to do next, as I prepare to move, to retire, and to become more active in living the ways I have been writing about for six years, my "trying on" different models of the me that I'm becoming. My post on What You Can Do (graphic above) is my attempt at a roadmap of possibilities. My post yesterda...     2009
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