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Being a Non-Conformist is Hard. Here are 5 Ways to Make Sticking to Your Values Easier
"Non Conformist" by Leslie Oldaker, available at www.deviantart.com/lesley-oldaker/art. Licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0. Resisting the...
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Dec 31, 2023


Self-Sufficiency and Frugalism: A Symbiotic Relationship
“I make myself rich by making my wants few.” – Henry David Thoreau Gathering rain to water your garden, growing a food forest in your...
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Dec 31, 2023


Prose-Poem: Trip Hop
(Background music) TRIP HOP by John Biscello Mellowing down, steep, deep, tripping the lights to inaugurate the dark—opiate balm shelters...
John Biscello
Dec 31, 2023


Poem: The Blue Marble, II
The Blue Marble, II by Bruce Bond *First published on Terrain.org Dear Earth, When I think of you, I see you in the patio of the New York...
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Dec 31, 2023


Zombies, Mad Max, and Freedom: Our Obsession with Apocalyptic Media and Our Aversion to Real-Life Collapse
Zombies. Just take a look at cinema—not just American, but Asian, European, what have you—and you can see our strange fascination with...
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Dec 31, 2023


Free Food 101- Guerilla Gardening
Art by Huleeb, this month's Featured Artist. “I have witnessed my garden become a tool for the education, the transformation of my...
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Dec 31, 2023


How Corporations Keep Stealing Your Money (And How to Stop Playing The Game)
Let me ask you one simple question. What is so special about your phone? What makes it different from the phone you had, say 3 years ago?...
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Dec 31, 2023


How Black, Hispanic, & white people came together & scared the shit out of the government
Divide and Conquer: A Timeline Chicago, Illinois, 1968: An accidental double booking of a church’s main room by the Black Panther Party...
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Nov 19, 2023


Poem: In 5G
In 5G by Tawanda Jazz My house is small. I walk between machines— from one to the next and this interlude between two-dimensional states...
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Nov 18, 2023


Permaculture and Climate Resilience: An Interview with Andrew Millison
Like a lot of people, when I first heard of permaculture, I had no idea what it was, but I knew that it had something to do with growing...
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Nov 18, 2023


Poem: Apocalypse Now & Again
Audio Version: Apocalypse Now & Again by John Biscello Everything always going on. People worry about everything not going on but what...
John Biscello
Nov 13, 2023


Our Phones Are Turning Us Into Robots. How to Fight Back.
“Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the...
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Nov 13, 2023


Rise of the Doomsters: A conversation with Jem Bendell & his chatbot
Editor's Note: With all respect to Jem Bendell, the use of AI as part of this interview was done at the request of the interviewee, and...
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Nov 8, 2023


What We Don't Know: Why You Should Give Strangers a Chance
Multiple studies have shown that we judge others within the first millisecond to the first 3 seconds that we see them. Learning how to...
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Nov 8, 2023


Why Being Self-Sufficient is the New American Dream
Something happened around 2005 or so, something that changed the way Americans (and many other first-worlders) thought about adulthood...
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Nov 8, 2023


Feng Shui and Minimalism-How They Make Love
What does it mean to trim down your belongings until you only possess the essential? What is "essential", in this instance, really? I...
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Nov 8, 2023


Are You Brainwashed by the Cult of Busy-ness?
Last night my partner and I were watching a documentary called Ministry of Evil: The Twisted Cult of Tony Alamo. Like many cult leaders,...
Maeve N. Hopewell
Nov 7, 2023
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