Imperfect Storms | John Michael Greer

June 26, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- Last week’s post on the need to check our narratives against the evidence of history turned out to be rather more timely than I expected. Over the weekend, followi ...

The Politics of Time's Shape | John Michael Greer

May 22, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- Last week’s discussion was a bit of a divagation from the main theme of the present sequence of posts on The Archdruid Report, but it was a divagation with a purpos ...

Waters Off Northeast US Coast Unusually Warm, Says NOAA | Eoin O'Carroll

Sea surface temperatures on the Northeast U.S. Continental Shelf reached the highest recorded in 150 years, says an advisory issued by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. A lobsterma ...

The Illusion of Invincibility | John Michael Greer

March 20, 2013 (Archdruid Report) -- One of the wry amusements to be had from writing a blog that routinely contradicts the conventional wisdom of our time is the way that defenders of that same conv ...

Scientists Confirm: Arctic Sea Ice 'Collapse' at Our Door | Jacob Chamberlain

Warming planet and new evidence portend future of ice-free Arctic Arctic sea ice volume in 1000s of cubic kilometers (via Robinson) Feb. 15, 2013 (CommonDreams) -- The Arctic Sea is experiencing rapi ...

The Myth of Human Progress | Chris Hedges

Illustration by Mr. FishJan. 13, 2013 (TruthDig) -- Clive Hamilton in his “Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change” describes a dark relief that comes from accepting that ...

One Eco-System, On The Rocks | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust “Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.” - Barbara Kingsolver A late November CBC art ...

Our Lunch Date With Sandy | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Nov. 26, 2012 "There is no way to overstate the magnitude of the collective spiritual transformation that will occur when we shift from food of v ...

You Say You Want A Revolution... Right? | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Nov. 23, 2012 “Surely it is not our intention to take out bank loans to buy back our world from capitalism. Neither is it our intention to help c ...

Globe Risks ‘Cataclysmic Changes’ From Warming, World Bank Says | Alex Morales

Current national pledges to reduce greenhouse gases won’t do much to change the current trajectory of temperatures, which are set to rise by about double the United Nations target of 2 degrees Celsiu ...

The Post-American Future | John Michael Greer

John Michael GreerNov. 7, 2012 (Archduid Report) -- One of the things I’ve learned repeatedly over six and a half years of writing Archdruid Report posts is that it’s a waste of time to try to predic ...