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The Geography of the Future

At a time when ideologies and slogans often pull us away from the difficult task of finding realistic solutions and building a world together, the approach of these authors reveals…

Homage to our Jailer

We lived now in a wrecked forest, but this is only the beginning.
November 25, 2011

Global Warming, Local Farming, and Naomi Klein: A Trip to the Land Institute

[Cross-posted to In Medias Res] Wichita, KS A couple of weeks ago some fine intellectuals, political figures, journalists, and activists associated with this blog gathered together to talk about localism,…
October 6, 2011

A Requirement for Respect

Our region became, unwittingly, the domestic front of what is now surely a global energy war.

The Oklahoma Abortion Law and SUVs

If my friend Ike lived in Britain they’d call him a “one-off.”  An avowed anarchist who thinks that things started going downhill when humans invented agriculture (and thus the need…
December 28, 2009

Distributism and Global Warming

Not a Single Cube of Ice In November of 2008, the cargo ship Camilla Desgagnés delivered supplies to the Arctic village of Kugluctuk. It did so by traversing the Northwest…