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Getting Real - Friday, January 6th 2012 8:01 AM
“At birth we are connected to the real world and then, subtly, without our nascent consciousness even being aware of it happening, a veil is slipped over our minds. As we...
Underminers: A Practical Guide for Radical Change - Friday, September 2nd 2011 3:42 AM
I am writing another book. For a while it seemed as though ideas would get the better of me and the sack of pages that might hold those words never be filled. Writing gave way...
Finding My Limit - Wednesday, May 11th 2011 4:50 AM
It’s been five months since I last wrote for The Earth Blog; to be honest I’ve been doing better things, like working within my community, enjoying my family as they grow...
What If...We Stopped Using Money? - Sunday, December 5th 2010 7:56 AM
I hadn’t exerted myself until I felt sick for quite some time: the rasping breath, accompanied by the gag reflex as each shallower gulp of air oxygenates the blood just a...
Dispatches from The Earth Blog : Free Mini-Book - Friday, August 20th 2010 5:39 AM
Looking Back, Looking ForwardThis is no swan song; no sad farewell. Maybe, though, it’s time to pause a while and think back to what has been said. After more than 4 years...
Anger Is Good - Tuesday, June 22nd 2010 7:02 AM
It took me a long time to realise that what I thought was my own free will was actually a mercilessly manipulated and largely predetermined way of living my life: “free...
In Truth As In Beauty - Tuesday, May 11th 2010 8:32 AM
I fear I cannot do this river justice. You can’t taste words or hear what they try to convey; yet as I sit on a bank of the Tweed, a few metres to the north of, and below the...
Taking Back Our Words - Thursday, March 18th 2010 5:56 AM
Recently, I received a message from a group called Trees Have Rights Too. They want to create a Meme, a replicating cultural entity, from the word “ecocide”: We want to get...
Radio Ecoshock Interview: Alex Smith with Keith Farnish - Saturday, February 20th 2010 11:01 PM
I had the great pleasure of being interviewed by Alex Smith of Radio Ecoshock, on 4th February 2010. Alex puts heart and soul into keeping this bastion of radical environmental...
A Last Toast To The Old World (Fiction, Perhaps) - Friday, January 22nd 2010 7:25 AM
We wanted to take the train, but the train wasn’t there. “Cancelled Forever”, someone had scrawled across the board that had once announced engineering works.Walk? An epic...
Reflections On Civilization, with Carolyn Baker - Sunday, December 20th 2009 8:02 AM
A few months ago, I struck up an online friendship with the acclaimed author and academic Carolyn Baker. It was clear that we were both writing about similar things, but I...
100 Ways To Undermine The Industrial Machine : The List - Tuesday, November 24th 2009 1:56 AM
In the previous post, "100 Ways To Undermine The Industrial Machine : Introduction", the basic premise behind the need for Undermining was given, along with a set of vital Rules...
100 Ways To Undermine The Industrial Machine : Introduction - Saturday, October 24th 2009 10:07 AM
It takes guts to do something that could change things forever. I’m not the obvious candidate to be a hero, that’s a fact; I have children and a wife, and an extended family...
I Was Wrong (But I'm Learning) - Monday, September 28th 2009 1:58 PM
There is a marvellous moment in a speech by Derrick Jensen1, in which he refers to a chapter in his book “A Language Older Than Words” in remarkably scathing...
Finding My Identity - Monday, August 31st 2009 2:11 PM
I have found an identity. Is that really such a big deal? The thing is, I didn’t realise I was missing one. There are so many things I could call myself: a human, male, a...
As If Humanity Actually Mattered - Thursday, July 30th 2009 11:28 AM
I am about to make you feel uncomfortable. Sorry, but there’s no way of avoiding it if I’m going to tell this story as it should be told.You are a human being; a member of...
The Logical Absurdity Of Climate Change Denial - Tuesday, June 30th 2009 3:52 AM
If someone doesn’t want to believe something then what can you do to change their mind? Trust me, it’s more difficult than you think: it isn’t just the simple case of...
What If...We Connected? - Saturday, May 30th 2009 7:00 AM
The wind is blowing hard, and the trees are bending down low, the air rushing across their branches, dragging leaves and blossom into the sky. The early summer grass, being...
Thinking About The Future - Wednesday, April 22nd 2009 5:53 AM
The future is everything we will ever know, and everything we have never known. Some people deny its existence: one group of people are the Pirahã of Amazonia, who have created...
Time's Up! - Friday, March 20th 2009 2:01 AM
There is a book I would like you all to read, and you don't have to pay a single penny for it, if you don't want to. The book is called "Time's Up! An Uncivilized Solution To A...
The Environmental Mainstream Is Obsolete - Friday, February 20th 2009 2:49 AM
In the 1970s life became simpler. The Age of Aquarius was the stuff of satire and the hippy dream of a world full of love and peace had died; ironically killed off by a war in a...
A Simple Message For Humanity - Un Message Clair Pour L'Humanité - Un Mensaje Simple Para La Humanidad - Tuesday, January 27th 2009 3:35 AM
Human activity is destroying the natural systems that we depend upon for our survival. Our most basic instinct as humans is to survive; yet we continue to destroy our...
If The Economy Doesn't Shrink, We're Finished! - Wednesday, December 31st 2008 5:50 AM
Credit crunch; economic crisis; financial meltdown…2008 became the year of monetary superlatives – and for good reason because, as far as most objective economic observers...
The Problem With...Civilization - Wednesday, November 26th 2008 7:16 AM
Civilization or civilisation n. an advanced stage or system of human social development(Concise Oxford English Dictionary)Something BETTER than civilization is awaiting...
Sabotage Is Not An Option, It Is A Necessity - Monday, October 27th 2008 10:19 AM
When the signal fails during the advertisement break, who will be screaming: the children in the middle of getting their fix of consumer messages; the shoppers finding out what...