Renewables: The Next Fracking? | John Michael Greer

Feb. 10, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- I'd meant this week’s Archdruid Report post to return to Retrotopia, my quirky narrative exploration of ways in which going backward might actually be a step forwa ...

Retrotopia: Lines of Separation | John Michael Greer

John Michael GreerJan. 27, 2016 (Archdruid Report) -- This is the 14th installment of an exploration of some of the possible futures discussed on this blog, using the toolkit of narrative fiction. Ou ...

Retrotopia: A Gift to be Simple | John Michael Greer

John Michael GreerDec. 16, 2015 (Archdruid Report) -- This is the 11th installment of an exploration of some of the possible futures discussed on this blog, using the toolkit of narrative fiction. Ou ...

The Flutter of Space Bat Wings | John Michael Greer

Dec. 9, 2015 (Archdruid Report) -- You don’t actually know a time or a culture until you discover the thoughts that its people can’t allow themselves to think. I had a reminder of that the other day, ...

The Blockchain – Can it Change the World? | Jurjen Söhne

Nov. 4, 2015 (BCNews) -- What if there’s a technological advancement so powerful that it transforms the very basic pillars of our society? A technology that fundamentally influences the way our econo ...

The Shadows in the Cave | John Michael Greer

John Michael GreerNov. 25, 2015 (Archdruid Report) -- I had intended this week’s post to be the next episode in the Retrotopia narrative, chronicling Peter Carr’s meeting with the irrepressible Col. ...

The Heresy of Technological Choice | John Michael Greer

John Michael GreerNov. 18, 2015 (Archdruid Report) -- Among the interesting benefits of writing a blog like this, focusing as it does on the end of industrial civilization, are the opportunities it r ...

What’s In A Name | Emanuele Corso

Emanuele Corso -- World News Trust Nov. 10, 2015 There is in our society a long tradition of calling certain things by names other than what they are, deliberately offsetting their true function and ...

Nuclear Calendar -- Oct. 19, 2015 | FCNL

Nuclear Calendar -- Friends Committee on National Legislation October 19, 2015 Oct. 19 7:00 p.m., Rose Gottemoeller, Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, "The End of N ...

Retrotopia: The Scent of Ink on Paper | John Michael Greer

Lakeland flag Oct. 14, 2015 (Archdruid Report) -- This is the sixth installment of an exploration of some of the possible futures discussed on this blog, using the toolkit of narrative fiction. Our n ...

A Landscape of Dreams | John Michael Greer

John Michael GreerOct. 7, 2015 (Archdruid Report) -- Maybe it’s just the psychology of selective attention, but tolerably often when I want to go into more detail about a point made in a previous ess ...