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Frugal Living and the Environment
What is missing from this discussion is the impact of frugal living on the economy. A capitalist economy thrives on scarcity (or at least the perception of scarcity)...
Walk Lightly on the Land: A sustainable worldview
In keeping with the request to walk lightly on the land, perhaps we need a more relevant myth. In her book Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer describes a...
The Busy Trap – Why overwork culture is ruining everything
The underlying issue here is that we still inexplicably equate busyness with productivity. Rest is seen as unproductive. People unwilling to sacrifice their time and energy above and beyond...
An Economy of Gratitude
I am not an economist. My only experience is living in a capitalist country and, even then, Canada has a strong socialist culture. My observation is there are...
Heroes
When asked who was the hero in Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien said it was Samwise Gamgee. He must not have seen the movie posters (Tolkien died...
Morphogenic Fields
The development of living organisms is complex. For animals, the starting point is a fertilized egg that contains all the genetic information about the organism. Through the process...
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