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Carolyn Baker, Ph.D. is author of U.S. HISTORY UNCENSORED: What Your High School Textbook Didn't Tell You. Her forthcoming book is SACRED DEMISE: Walking The Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization's Collapse. She also manages the Speaking Truth to Power website at www.carolynbaker.net.
SHARE Tuesday, December 9, 2008 STATE REPRESENTATIVE PROMOTES NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS
As the various levels of American society continue to collapse in the wake of economic meltdown, most of the services to which people in need might turn in an emergency will not be there. It is very likely that the only lifeline for millions of people may be with caring neighbors or other community volunteers.
(5 comments) SHARE Friday, May 2, 2008 We Can Survive, But Can We Communicate?
The culture we live in is based on hierarchies of control and influence. Work relationships, kept in place largely by paychecks and ordered by project managers and bosses, are the most common experience most of us have of being part of an organized group. We have little experience outside of those hierarchies. Even more rare in our hyper-independent culture is to depend on others for mutual aid, support and comfort.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 13, 2008 FOOD, FUEL, AND FASCISM: Their Election Or Your Life?
In the light of a collapsing economy and ecosytem and candidates that refuse to deal with the realities of both, where do you choose to invest your energy in 2008?
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 21, 2007 STOP CALLING ME A "DOOMER"
Clarifying what it means to embrace options rather than trying to remain "hopeful"