THE ENVIRONMENT / PARADIGM SHIFT:
The Great Turning: "We stand at a critical moment in Earth's history, a time when humanity must choose its future."
Global Mind Shift: "The most powerful thing we can do is to shift our worldview."
The Bioneers: "Revolution from the heart of nature."
Vandana Shiva, physicist, ecologist, activist: znet page.
Percy Schmeiser, Canadian farmer, victim of globalization, GMOs and Monsanto.
The Long Now Foundation: Promoting "slower better" thinking.
Best Environmental Websites.
Green Planet Films:
Great source of environmental education films.
NEWS AND POLITICS:
Think Progress: A forum advancing progressive ideas and policies.
Daily Kos: The State of the Nation as seen from the left coast.
AlterNet: Independent and alternative journalism and commentary.
The Huffington Post, Arianna takes on the vast right-wing junta.
KPFA Radio: Pacifica network flagship, listener sponsored since 1949.
TomDispatch: Excellent alternative econo-political information.
Left Business Observer: Accessible economic analysis.
Conservation Economy: "Pattern Map" diagram for sustainable economy.
Alcohol Can Be A Gas: Comprehensive look at an ethanol industry.
Netroots Nation: Progressive Politics.
The Nation: Progressive news and commentary.
MoveOn: Education and information for activists.
Corp Watch: Holding corporations accountable.
Tom Paine / Common Sense: Progressive insight and action.
Common Dreams: Progressive news and views.
Democracy Now: "The exception to the rulers."
On the Commons: "Some forms of wealth belong to us all."
In These Times: Social, environmental and economic justice.
Media Matters: Progressive analysis and critique of mass media.
Jim Hightower: American's #1 populist.
The L-Curve video: U.S. Income distribution. Also here:
Timeline 9.11: Detailed inquiry, unanswered questions.
Miniature Earth: The state of the global village.
Militainment, Inc.: Investigation: militarization of U.S. culture.
Naomi Klein: The Shock Doctrine, short film summarizes book.
FactCheck and TruthDig, political fact checking.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: INFORMATION / PHILOSOPHY
Time and Free Will, Henri Bergson
Ubiquity, Mark Buchanan (critical states)
Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan, also The Medium is the Massage,
War and Peace in the Global Village, Essential McLuhan.
Mind and Nature, Gregory Bateson, also Steps to an Ecology of Mind.
Paradigm Shift, Wikipedia, also:
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas S. Kuhn
Against Interpretation, Susan Sontag, also On Photography
A Peoples' History of the United States, Howard Zinn
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, Shunryu Sukuki
On the Experience of Time, Robert E. Ornstein, and other works
Art as Experience, John Dewey, and other works
Time and the Art of Living, Robert Grudin
This is Not a Pipe, Michel Foucault, ("symbol confusion")
Julian Jaynes Society: Bicameral mind and consciousness theory
FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES:
William Farley Film Group: Experimental and Documentary Films
Barney Haynes: Artist
Jeffrey Smith: From the garden to the table.
Linda Yaven: Making thinking visible. Creative coach.
Chris Johnson: Photographer.