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Walt Whitman Preface to Leaves of Grass 1988 Edition and a Letter from Emerson
Walt Whitman Dec 18, 2014
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To poets and literats -- to every woman and man, today or any day, the conditions of the present, needs, dangers, prejudices, and the like, are the perfect conditions on which we are here, and the conditions for wording the future with undissuadable words. These States, receivers of the stamina of past ages and lands, initiate the outlines of repayment a thousand fold. They fetch the American great masters, waited for by old worlds and new, who accept evil as well as good, ignorance as well as erudition, black as soon as white, foreign-born materials as well as home-born, reject none, force discrepancies into range, surround the whole, concentrate them on present periods and places, show the application to each and any one's body and soul, and show the true use of precedents. Always America will be agitated and turbulent. This day it is taking shape, not to be less so, but to be more so, stormily, capriciously, on native principles, with such vast proportions of parts! As for me, I love screaming, wrestling, boiling-hot days.
Wilson Solar Dream Home
John Wilson Nov 27, 2014
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This house produces 100% of the energy required to power it using only solar photo voltaic systems for electricity and an EPA rated wood burning stove.
Zeitgeist Banking Theory
Adam Buick Oct 22, 2014
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An urban myth is circulating on the internet that banks have been creating money out of thin air. Those who have seen the cult film Zeitgeist and its sequel Zeitgeist Addendum, popular amongst conspiracy theorists and others suspicious of governments and banks, will have heard recounted the argument that banks can somehow create money out of thin air by the stroke of a pen or, these days, by the touch of a computer keyboard. In Zeitgeist Addendum this argument is based on what is stated in an educational booklet published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Entitled Modern Money Mechanics it first came out in 1975 and has gone through several editions.
Zeitgeist Addendum Movie Transcript
John Wilson Oct 21, 2014
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Zeitgeist: Addendum is a 2008 documentary film produced and directed by Peter Joseph, and a sequel to the 2007 film Zeitgeist: The Movie. It premiered at the 5th Annual Artivist Film Festival in Los Angeles, California on October 2, 2008.
John Wilson Oct 6, 2014
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Learn the basic concepts of aquaponics from Alec Wheeler who has built his own hobby system.
King John
William Shakespeare Sep 9, 2014
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King John, a history play by William Shakespeare, dramatises the reign of John, King of England (ruled 1199–1216), son of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine and father of Henry III of England. It is believed to have been written in the mid-1590s but was not published until it appeared in the First Folio in 1623.
Resilience Thinking
Rob Hopkins Aug 17, 2014
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The UK Low Carbon Transition Plan, published by the UK government in 2010, was a bold and powerful statement of intent for a low-carbon economy in the UK (HMG 2009). It stated that by 2020 there would be a five-fold increase in wind generation, feed-in tariffs for domestic energy generation, and an unprecedented scheme to retrofit every house in the country for energy efficiency. I hesitate to criticize creative steps in the right direction taken by government. There is, however, a key flaw in the document, which also appears in much of the wider societal thinking about climate change and the social response it requires. It is the attempt to address the problem without also addressing the key issue of resilience.
The Wealth of the Commons
Michel Bauwens & Franco Iacomella Aug 16, 2014
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We are poised between an old world that no longer works and a new one struggling to be born. Surrounded by centralized hierarchies on the one hand and predatory markets on the other, people around the world are searching for alternatives. The Wealth of the Commons explains how millions of commoners have organized to defend their forests and fisheries, reinvent local food systems, organize productive online communities, reclaim public spaces, improve environmental stewardship and re-imagine the very meaning of "progress" and governance. In short: how they've built their commons. In 73 timely essays by a remarkable international roster of activists, academics and project leaders, this book chronicles ongoing struggles against the private commoditization of shared resources – often known as "market enclosures" – while documenting the immense generative power of the commons. The Wealth of the Commons is about history, political change, public policy and cultural transformation on a global scale – but most of all, it's about commoners taking charge of their lives and their endangered resources. It's about common people doing uncommon things. ?
The Other America
Martin Luther King Jr. Aug 16, 2014
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"The problem of unemployment is not the only problem," King said. "There is a problem of underemployment, and there are thousands and thousands, I would say millions of people in the Negro community who are poverty-stricken – not because they are not working, but because they receive wages so low that they cannot begin to function in the main stream of the economic life of our nation. Most of the poverty-stricken people of America are persons who are working every day, and they end up getting part-time wages for full-time work."
Nothing Burns in Hell
Wayne Spencer Aug 15, 2014
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A situationist analysis of the everyday lives of proudly delinquent youths and the proudly respectable citizens who are often contrasted with them. The problem, it contends, is not that young delinquents have gone too far in their defiance of the dominant society, but that they have not gone far enough. Equally, the problem is not that the lives of the respectable citizens of this society are too much disturbed, but that they have remained miserably frozen.
End Poverty by Addressing Issue Directly
OpeniPub Aug 12, 2014
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In a lecture entitled "Fighting Poverty", Senator Hugh Segal explains why we need a new national approach to tackling poverty arguing that the costs and consequences of poverty are much larger than direct spending on social programs. "Poverty is the worst form of violence." - Mahatma Gandhi
Ukraine and The Anarchist Revolution
OpeniPub Aug 12, 2014
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ANARCHISM - a life of freedom and creative independence for humanity. Anarchism does not depend on theory or programs, which try to grasp man's life in its entirety. It is a teaching, which is based on real life, which outgrows all artificial limitations, which cannot be constricted by any system.
OpeniPub News August 12 2014
OpeniPub Aug 12, 2014
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Ukraine and The Anarchist Revolution, Islamic State Nightmare, Ending Poverty, Emerson Essays on Self-Reliance, A Short History of the World by H.G. Wells, Intervention in Ukraine from Wikinews on OpeniPub
OpeniPub News August 6 2014
OpeniPub Aug 10, 2014
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The Big Lie can be seen all around. Walt Whitman returns. Tell us your Amazing Ideas. Fragments from the notes of a tourist. Independence and freedom is still possible. Transcendentalism, what does it mean? Find out on OpeniPub Wikipedia reader. Photo Credit: "Smear Street Art1". Via Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Smear_Street_Art1.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Smear_Street_Art1.jpg
The Big Lie
OpeniPub Aug 6, 2014
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We all know that governments lie. We've also see that corporations will lie about the known effects of their products. What are the implications of living with the "Big Lie"? When we consider the potential dangers of climate change, nuclear weapons proliferation, chemical weapons and conventional wars waged against innocent civilians, we consume mainstream propaganda at our peril.
Ferry Boat Goes Electric with Lithium Batteries
Source: Electrovaya Jul 30, 2014
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The battery electric ferry can save up to approximately 180,750 liters of fuel consumption over its expected lifetime. That has a potential to save about 500 tonnes of emissions;480 tonnes of CO2, 9 tonnes of particulate matter and volatile organic compounds, 2 tonnes of carbon monoxide and 2 tonnes of other type of emissions. The Electrovaya lithium ion battery also eliminates all fuel exhaust including the usual carcinogens from diesel exhaust.
Specimen days
Walt Whitman Jul 29, 2014
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Specimen Days is essentially the great American poet Walt Whitman's scrap book. It documents most of his life's adventures, espeically his experience serving as a nurse during the Civil War and travelling around America.
Walt Whitman
Richard Maurice Bucke Jul 28, 2014
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Now just entering his sixty-fifth year, Walt Whitman has become the object, in America and Europe, of such pronounced attacks, defences, inquiries, and of comments, assumptions, and denials, so various and inconsistent—with a certainty of steadily increasing interest, perhaps of still more pronounced attack and defence in the future—that a field may well be presumed to exist for statements about him from observation at first hand. Such contemporaneous statements, executed in their own way, form the purpose of the following pages. To arrest, at the time, some otherwise evanescent facts and features of the man—to sketch him on the spot, in his habit as he lived, and give a few authentic items of his ancestry, youth, middle life, and actual manners and talk, is the primary object of this volume; secondly, to put forth in regard to Leaves of Grass my own deliberate constructions of that work. I make no pretence that they are other than from a friendly point of view. " As it seems to me," might doubtless have served as heading for all I have written.
Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell Jul 22, 2014
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Orwell served on the Aragon front for a hundred and fifteen days. It was not until the end of April 1937 that he was granted leave and was able to see his wife Eileen in Barcelona again. Eileen wrote on 1 May that she found him, "a little lousy, dark brown, and looking really very well." At this point he was convinced that he would have the chance to see more action if he joined the International Brigade and fought with it on the Madrid front; his attitude was still one of exasperation in the face of the rivalries between the various factions. This, "changed dramatically in the first week of May when he found himself and his comrades under fire not from the fascist enemy but from their left-wing 'allies'" in the fighting that followed the government effort to take control of the Telephone Exchange. The Spanish Government was seeking to assert direct control on Barcelona, which was chiefly in the hands of the Anarchists. The Government decided to occupy the telephone building and to disarm the workers; the anarcho-syndicalist CNT staff resisted and street fighting followed in which Orwell was caught up. The struggle was called off by the CNT leaders after four days. Large Government forces were arriving from Valencia. Source: Wikipedia
The power of vulnerability
Brené Brown Jul 18, 2014
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Brené Brown, Ph.D., LMSW is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent the past decade studying vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame. Her 2010 TEDx Houston talk on the power of vulnerability is one of the most watched talks on TED.com, with over 15 million views. She gave the closing talk, Listening to Shame, at the 2012 TED Conference in Long Beach.
Miru Kim
Open iPub Jul 17, 2014
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Miru Kim is a New York-based artist who has explored various urban ruins such as abandoned subway stations, tunnels, sewers, catacombs, factories, hospitals, and shipyards. For her new series that examines the relationship between pigs and humans, she has visited various industrial hog farms. She was featured as one of America's Best and Brightest 2007 in Esquire magazine. Her work has been spotlighted in countless other international media such as The New York Times, TED.com, The Financial Times, ARTE France, Ovation TV, Time Out New York, NY Arts Magazine, The Korea Daily, La Stampa, Berlingske Tidende, VanityFair.de, Korea Herald, Vogue Girl. Public collections of her work include Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art and Hana Bank. Her work has been shown in various galleries, museums, and art fairs (Gallery HYUNDAI in Seoul, Queens Museum of Art in New York, National Museum of Visual Art in Montevideo, Coreana Museum in Seoul, SCOPE Basel, Miami International, Lodz Biennale in Poland, etc), and she was invited to present her work at the Entertainment Gathering in Monterey, CA (2008), and the World Culture Forum in Dresden, Germany (2009).
Open Letter to Corporations
Open iPub Jul 16, 2014
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Corporations have become the de facto rulers in a world where politicians are beholden to wealthy contributors to win campaigns. Lobbyists write the bills that our politicians sign and inform our leaders as to what they can and cannot say about any given subject in front of a camera. This is no longer a democracy and I'm not just talking about America. Corporations are now multinational "citizens" who are reshaping global policies to benefit their own investors and executives at the expense of workers and the environment.
Electric sail boat conversion
John Wilson Jul 4, 2014
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Electric motors for sailboats have arrived. Just think how much sense it makes. A gasoline engine has an electric motor, batteries for that starter electric motor, spark plugs, pumps, cooling systems, and who knows what else. With electrics, you are down to one of those basic systems...a large version of the gasolines electric starter motor. Talk about making things easier and simple to understand, never mind reliable. Add to that the ease of maintenance, ease of fueling (just plug her in), and ease of use. The more time we spend with the electric the more I have no doubt that this is the future of boating.
Sustainable Community Models
Lee Ewald May 15, 2014
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Sustainable Communities, Intentional Communities and Transition Towns offer us a chance to study the empowerment of people to create human spaces that are more sympathetic to nature, the environment and ecology. At the same time they deal with declining fossil fuels, depleted natural resources and the impact of climate change. An emphasis on incorporating clean renewable energy into all communities during this time of societal shift toward resilience and sustainability is absolutely necessary.
Personal Power in a Solar Village
John Wilson Apr 1, 2014
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I am going to walk you through the involvement I've had in all of this over the years and this is really a personal thing. This is about you and me, and what we can actually do to create what I see 's and I call the solar village. So that's what I am going to talk about, all of the real, tangible things that you and I can all do starting right away.
Tree Crops
J. Russell Smith Mar 12, 2014
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I stood on the Great Wall of China near the borders of Mongolia. Below me in the valley, standing up square and high, was a wall that had once surrounded a city. Of the city only a few mud houses remained, scarcely enough to lead one's mind back to the time when people and household industry teemed within the protecting wall. The slope below the Great Wall was cut with gullies, some of which were fifty feet deep. As far as the eye could see were gullies, gullies, gullies—a gashed and gutted countryside. The little stream that once ran past the city was now a wide waste of coarse sand and gravel which the hillside gullies were bring- ing down faster than the little stream had been able to carry them away. Hence, the whole valley, once good farm land, had become a desert of sand and gravel, alternately wet and dry, always fruitless. It was even more worthless than the hills. Beside me was a tree, one lone tree. That tree was locally famous because it was the only tree anywhere in that vicinity; yet its presence proved that once there had been a forest over most of that land—now treeless and waste.
The Origins of Totalitarianism
HANNAH ARENDT Jan 9, 2014
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SINCE 1951, when this book first appeared, only one event happened that had a direct bearing upon our understanding of totalitarianism and total domination as a novel form of government. This is not Stalin's death, nor even the succession crisis in Russia and the satellite countries, but the Hungarian revolution — the first and yet unique instance of a people's uprising against total domination. At this moment, hardly two years after the uprising, no one can tell whether this was only the last and most desperate flare-up of a spirit which, since 1789, has manifested itself in the series of European revolutions, or if it contains the germ of something new which will have consequences of its own. In either case, the event itself is important enough to require a re-examination of what we know, or think we know, about totalitarianism. The reader will find in this new edition a last chapter, in the form of an Epilogue, where I have tried to bring the older story up to date. However, the reader should bear in mind that developments of the year 1958 have not been taken into account, with the result that the partial restalinization in Soviet Russia and the satel- lite countries is hinted at as a strong probability, but not told and analyzed as an accomplished fact.
We Must Tell the Story of Amazing Ideas
Kegan Stedwell Dec 15, 2013
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Social change has NEVER originated from the middle of society, and has always come from the fringe. So if you've never felt like you fit in, what are your ideas?
The Accumulation of Capital
Rosa Luxemberg Sep 30, 2013
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Karl Marx made a contribution of lasting service to the theory of economics when he drew attention to the problem of the reproduction of the entire social capital. It is significant that in the history of economics we find only two attempts at an exact exposition of this problem: one by Quesnay, the father of the Physiocrats, at its very inception; and in its final stage this attempt by Marx. In the interim, the problem was ever with bourgeois economics. Yet bourgeois economists have never been fully aware of this problem in its pure aspects, detached from related and intersecting minor problems; they have never been able to formulate it precisely, let alone solve it. Seeing that the problem is of paramount importance, their attempts may all the same help us to some understanding of the trend of scientific economics.
Fighting for Civil Rights
DemocracyNow.org Aug 27, 2013
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Tens of thousands of people gathered in the nation's capital on Saturday to mark the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, originally held on August 28, 1963. People filled the National Mall as speakers reflected on the progress in achieving the goals outlined by the event's most famous speaker, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
Marriage and Love
Emma Goldman Aug 22, 2013
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The popular notion about marriage and love is that they are synonymous, that they spring from the same motives, and cover the same human needs. Like most popular notions this also rests not on actual facts, but on superstition. Marriage and love have nothing in common; they are as far apart as the poles; are, in fact, antagonistic to each other. No doubt some marriages have been the result of love. Not, however, because love could assert itself only in marriage; much rather is it because few people can completely outgrow a convention. There are today large numbers of men and women to whom marriage is naught but a farce, but who submit to it for the sake of public opinion. At any rate, while it is true that some marriages are based on love, and while it is equally true that in some cases love continues in married life, I maintain that it does so regardless of marriage, and not because of it.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
Herman Melville Aug 19, 2013
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Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is a novel by Herman Melville, first published in 1851. It is considered to be one of the Great American Novels. The story tells the adventures of wandering sailor Ishmael, and his voyage on the whaleship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab has one purpose on this voyage: to seek out Moby Dick, a ferocious, enigmatic white sperm whale. In a previous encounter, the whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg, which now drives Ahab to take revenge.
A Short History of the World
H. G. Wells Aug 16, 2013
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THE story of our world is a story that is still very imperfectly known. A couple of hundred years ago men possessed the history of little more than the last three thousand years. What happened before that time was a matter of legend and speculation. Over a large part of the civilized world it was believed and taught that the world had been created suddenly in 4004 B.C., though authorities differed as to whether this had occurred in the spring or autumn of that year. This fantastically precise misconception was based upon a too literal interpretation of the Hebrew Bible, and upon rather arbitrary theological assumptions connected therewith. Such ideas have long since been abandoned by religious teachers, and it is universally recognized that the universe in which we live has to all appearances existed for an enormous period of time and possibly for endless time. Of course there may be deception in these appearances, as a room may be made to seem endless by putting mirrors facing each other at either end. But that the universe in which we live has existed only for six or seven thousand years may be regarded as an altogether e of 239,000 miles. Earth and moon are not the only bodies to travel round the sun. There are also the planets, Mercury and Venus, at distances of thirty-six and sixty-seven millions of miles; and beyond the circle of the earth and disregarding a belt of numerous smaller bodies, the planetoids, there are Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune at mean distances of 141, 483, 886, 1,782, and 1,793 millions of miles respectively. These figures in {3} millions of miles are very difficult for the mind to grasp. It may help the reader's imagination if we reduce the sun and planets to a smaller, more conceivable scale.
HUGO B. FROEHLICH Aug 14, 2013
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In presenting to the public the series of Text Books of Art Education, of which this volume is a part, it is desired to state briefly the aims and purposes of the plan upon which the series is based. It is not necessary to review the history of art education in public schools, nor to present argument for the introduction or retention of drawing as an important study. These questions have been exhaustively treated, and need no fresh discussion. The school that does not offer to its community some kind of systematic art instruction is today an exception. Education along specific lines should conform to the philosophy which is accepted as fundamental in general educational work. The educational principles adhered to in these books are, therefore, in accord with the psychological laws of child development which are endorsed by the leading educators of the present time, and the effort has been made to work out in these books a series of lessons that shall be not only educationally sound and artistically correct, but at the same time adapted in the different stages to the child's ability to comprehend and his power to express. With this end in view, the lessons in the Text Books of Art Education have been divided into three groups which may be known as the Observational or Objective Group, in which the study of things is the aim; the Subjective Group, in which the study of principles or laws of beauty is the aim; and the Creative Group, in which the application of accumulated knowledge and ability is the aim. In furthering the work of the first group, the topics so familiar to the art teacher of our modern schools are treated—landscape, plants, life, and still life. In the second group are presented the principles of perspective, of industrial drawing, of color harmony, and most important of all, the principles of pure design. In the third group are placed creative exercises in composition, in decorative design, and in many forms of manual training. While the same division of work is kept throughout the course, the manner of presentation differs greatly in the different years. In the primary grades, the work is largely objective in its character. Children are taught to see and to do. In the intermediate grades, the children are introduced to the principles of arrangement, Balance, Rhythm, and Harmony, which have been adopted as the working basis of this series of books, and in the light of which the subjective and creative work of the upper grades is planned. As the work progresses through the different years, the subjective and creative sides are more and more emphasized, and the study of objects is felt to be merely a means necessary to an end. All through the series, there is a definite, logical progression, so that in schools where these ideas are put into practice, there should be no ground for the complaint that the work of the intermediate and grammar grades falls below the work of the primary grades, in general excellence. These books are the outgrowth of years of experience in practical fields of work. They have been prepared with a keen appreciation of the obstacles which have confronted the art teacher in public education, and with an intimate knowledge of the child mind, in its various stages of development. Never before has an attempt been made to put into the hands of children a text of lessons in art. The illustrations serve the double purpose of illuminating the text and of furnishing the children with standards of work in the various mediums. For the Theory of Color Relations used in these books, special acknowledgment is due to Dr. Denman W. Ross, of Harvard University. The lessons in design are preparatory to the fuller exposition in the upper books of Dr. Ross's principles of arrangement—Balance, Rhythm, and Harmony.
Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens Aug 12, 2013
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A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks among the most famous works in the history of fictional literature.
John Wilson Aug 12, 2013
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The free news source you can write!
Sailing Alone Around the World
Captain Joshua Slocum Aug 12, 2013
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Sailing Alone Around the World (1900) is a sailing memoir by Joshua Slocum about his single-handed global circumnavigation aboard the sloop Spray. Slocum was the first person to sail around the world alone. The book was an immediate success and highly influential in inspiring later travelers.
Adbusters Twisted Logic Spoon
Adbusters Aug 1, 2013
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It's pretty amazing that our society has reached a point where the effort necessary to extract oil from the ground, ship it to a refinery, turn it into plastic, shape it appropriately, truck it to a store, buy it, and bring it home is considered to be less effort than what it takes to just wash the spoon when you're done with it.
Destruction of the mental environment
John Wilson Aug 1, 2013
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Conceivably the internet and mobile technology revolutions empower the individual to produce and deliver content in competition with large powerful media. It does. One the other hand, most media that people "consume" comes from the large power media companies that are mentioned constantly in the media. We all know their names. Media now encompasses TV, internet to desktop/laptop computer screen, mobile internet, radio, newspapers and magazines. You can just imagine what the majority of this content consists of. At work, there is no doubt a mix of useful business information, content and applications required to conduct day-to-day operation. Before and after work, that content from media sources consists of "entertainment", "news", social media, entertaining shared videos and games. Then today you get this, a study on where we spend our time with "screens". For the business community this is important information regarding where advertising revenue is now going, which is of course what media is really all about when it comes from media companies. What is spending 11 hours and 52 minutes watching screens paid for by advertising doing to us? First of all, that amount of time leaves little room for socializing much less thinking, it could be argued. If this is what the adults in the US are doing, what are their kids, who seem to spend even more time online doing to their minds?
Fifty Essays
George Orwell Aug 1, 2013
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The position of the writer in an age of State control is a subject that has already been fairly largely discussed, although most of the evidence that might be relevant is not yet available. In this place I do not want to express an opinion either for or against State patronage of the arts, but merely to point out that WHAT KIND of State rules over us must depend partly on the prevailing intellectual atmosphere: meaning, in this context, partly on the attitude of writers and artists themselves, and on their willingness or otherwise to keep the spirit of liberalism alive. If we find ourselves in ten years' time cringing before somebody like Zhdanov, it will probably be because that is what we have deserved. Obviously there are strong tendencies towards totalitarianism at work within the English literary intelligentsia already. But here I am not concerned with any organised and conscious movement such as Communism, but merely with the effect, on people of goodwill, of political thinking and the need to take sides politically.
John Wilson Jul 29, 2013
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An inquiry into the nature of freedom as it applies to living your life.
Noam Chomsky - Understanding Our World
John Wilson Jul 29, 2013
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Chomsky is one of the best-known figures of the American left although he doesn't agree with the usage of the term. He has described himself as a "fellow traveller" to the anarchist tradition, and refers to himself as a libertarian socialist, a political philosophy he summarizes as challenging all forms of authority and attempting to eliminate them if they are unjustified for which the burden of proof is solely upon those who attempt to exert power. He identifies with the labor-oriented anarcho-syndicalist current of anarchism in particular cases, and is a member of the Industrial Workers of the World. He also exhibits some favor for the libertarian socialist vision of participatory economics,[1] himself being a member of the Interim Committee for the International Organization for a Participatory Society.[2] He believes that libertarian socialist values exemplify the rational and morally consistent extension of original unreconstructed classical liberal and radical humanist ideas in an industrial context.[3] Chomsky has further defined himself as having held Zionist beliefs, although he notes that his definition of Zionism would be considered by most as anti-Zionism these days, the result of what he perceives to have been a shift (since the 1940s) in the meaning of Zionism (Chomsky Reader). Chomsky is considered "one of the most influential left-wing critics of American foreign policy" by the Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers.[4] Source: Wikipedia
Natural Swimming Pools and Ponds
John Wilson Jul 26, 2013
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A Natural Swimming Pool is swimming pool that has clear water without using chemicals. These pools rely entirely on the plants and animals to condition the water. This is so effective that this pool has been tested and shown to be of drinking water quality. Also, through the continual natural "cleaning process" the pool water never needs changing, saving water. Chemical free so it is healthy for people and wildlife. Wild Swimming at home.
Not protest but direct action: anarchism past and present
David Goodway Jul 26, 2013
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Fifty to sixty years ago anarchism appeared to be a spent force, as both a movement and a political theory, yet since the 1960s there has been a resurgence in Europe and North America of anarchist ideas and practice. Britain nowadays must have a greater number of conscious anarchists than at any previous point in its history. In addition there are many more who, while not identifying themselves as anarchists, think and behave in significantly anarchist ways. The last fifteen years has also seen the rise of the anti-globalization or anti-capitalism movement. At a series of international meetings of the key organizations that determine the global economic order - notably, the World Trade Organization at Seattle in 1999, the G8 at Genoa in 2001 and most recently the G20 in London in 2009 - minorities of self-professed anarchists have gone on the rampage, capturing the attention not just of the civil authorities but of the world's press, radio and television. To this extent the anarchists have announced their return as a significant disruptive presence, once again inspiring anxiety among governments and police chiefs. Anarchists themselves disdain the customary use of 'anarchy' to mean 'chaos' or 'complete disorder'. For them it signifies the absence of a ruler or rulers in a self-managed society, usually resembling the 'co-operative commonwealth' that most socialists have traditionally sought, and more highly organized than the disorganization and chaos of the present. An anarchist society would be more ordered since the political theory of anarchism advocates organization from the bottom up with the federation of the self-governed entities - as opposed to order being imposed from the top down upon resisting individuals or groups. This is a long-established way of looking at things, with not just a distinctive but an impressive intellectual history. Yet the media and other commentators (including many who should know better) insist on employing 'anarchists' and 'anarchism' as smear words unworthy of rational consideration. The French anarchists' cult of dynamite in the 1890s had much to answer for the exceedingly negative image throughout the twentieth century. Now, in contemporary Britain, recent anarchist mayhem on the streets leads to a lazy, or frightened, association of all violent actions with 'anarchists', such as the unrelated student demonstration of November 2010 or the widespread urban rioting of August 2011, neither of which had any identifiable anarchist component.
An Anarchistic Understanding of Social Order
Andrew Gavin Marshall Jul 25, 2013
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It seems only logical that a convergence between Indigenous and scientific activism, organization, and the sharing of knowledge should be encouraged and facilitated. Indeed, the future of the species may depend upon it. This paper aims to encourage such a convergence by applying an anarchistic analysis of the social order as it relates to environmental degradation, specifically at the point of interaction with the environment (the source of extraction). In classifying this as an anarchistic analysis, I simply mean that it employs a highly critical perspective of hierarchically organized institutions. This paper does not intend to discuss in any detail the issue of climate change, since that issue is largely a symptom of the problem, which at its source is how the human social order interacts directly with the environment: extraction, pollution, degradation, exploitation and destruction at the point of interaction.
Oil On The Tracks
Ben Jervey Jul 24, 2013
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The tragic oil train explosion earlier this month in Lac-Megantic, Quebec has focused a spotlight on the growing role of rail in the transportation of North American crude. But even after that tragedy, the extent of rail's expansion in transporting oil is still little understood by the typical driver at the pump.
Natural Swimming Pools
John Wilson Jul 24, 2013
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A Natural Swimming Pool is swimming pool that has clear water without using chemicals. These pools rely entirely on the plants and animals to condition the water. This is so effective that this pool has been tested and shown to be of drinking water quality. Also, through the continual natural "cleaning process" the pool water never needs changing, saving water. Chemical free so it is healthy for people and wildlife. Wild Swimming at home.
Plutarch Jul 17, 2013
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Solon was one of the wise men of ancient Greece, a poet, and during a period of growing inequality, he was asked to lead in order to resolve the growing tensions. He instituted into law an early form of democracy, forgave outstanding debts that were debilitating society, and freed slaves.
Solar Powered Aquaponics
John Wilson Jun 26, 2013
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For several years I've been thinking about building a solar powered aquaponics system in my greenhouse. This morning I discovered this video that features a solar powered aquaponics system. The hope and dream is alive and well.
Chris Hedges
John Wilson Jun 26, 2013
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He has written eight books, including Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (Nation Books, 2009), I Don't Believe in Atheists (2008) and the bestselling American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America (2008). His book War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2003) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. His most recent book is Death of the Liberal Class (Nation Books, 2010). Hedges holds a BA in English literature from Colgate University and a Master of Divinity degree from Harvard University. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley, California. Hedges speaks Arabic, French, and Spanish and knows ancient Greek and Latin. In addition to writing a weekly original column for Truthdig, he has written for Harper's magazine, The New Statesman, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, Adbusters, Granta, Foreign Affairs, and other publications.
Hope for a Change: Renewable Energy
John Wilson Jun 17, 2013
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This is a transcript of the documentary video Hope for a Change: Renewable Energy produced by John Wilson. There is a ten minute summary of the "essentials" video at the end of this publication. Give the gift of wisdom, hope and power. This documentary set explains how people like you and communities using renewable energy provide hope that we will achieve a sustainable future. Renewable energy sets the stage for a world where political and social autonomy is possible, energy crises are history, climate change is halted, and oil/nuclear war can be averted. See how it's possible to live an ethical existence today while providing hope for a better future for our children. Featured in this timely documentary are award-winning scientist and world-renowned environmentalist Dr. David Suzuki, Chris Turner author of the Geography of Hope, which is on the "Globe 100" list of the best books of the year, and Right Livelihood (the alternative Nobel prize) award-winner Dr. Hermann Scheer, the architect of the German Renewable Energy Act.
NSA Leak by Edward Snowden Exposes Massive Surveillance Apparatus
John Wilson Jun 16, 2013
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Glenn Greenwald exposed the NSA surveillance system called Prism on June 6 in the Guardian - NSA Prism program taps in to user data of Apple, Google and others. Greenwald reports that "The National Security Agency has obtained direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US internet giants, according to a top secret document obtained by the Guardian."
The Palace of Exile: Fragments from the Notes of a Tourist in Prague
Wayne Spencer May 29, 2013
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Work has once again become insufferable. Why? Where should I begin? Interfering managers and infuriating targets? Smiling contempt and "meaningless achievement" (Kafka)? Perhaps the staff cuts that remind me that I am nothing more than a disposable tool of management or the growing insistence that I engage enthusiastically in my alienation? Suffice it to say that being compelled to spend so much time, with so many other people, creating this absurd and unwanted society has left me sorely in need of a break. Not that it will really help. Everything will be the same when I return. All the same, I shall go. We have become used to making these false choices. "Anything is better than working," we tell ourselves. We then take a week or two off in the very world that work has built.
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King, Jr. Apr 2, 2013
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While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities "unwise and untimely." Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would have little time for anything other than such correspondence in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work. But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and that your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I want to try to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms.
Permaculture, An Introduction
John Wilson Mar 18, 2013
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As the number of stories in the news that portend doom and gloom increases, it makes more and more sense to dig into some of the ways more and more people are fighting back. Permaculture has much to teach us about how to live a better life.
Binga Eco-Village Takes Shape
Mar 4, 2013
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Help the people of Binga create new self-sufficient sustainable buildings as part of a new Eco-Village. Course materials are being developed by the Zambesi Technical College in Binga with volunteer support from around the world.
The Great Transformation
Karl Polanyi Feb 12, 2013
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HERE IS A BOOK that makes most books in its field seem obsolete or outworn. So rare an event is a portent of the times. Here, at a crucial hour, is a fresh comprehension of the form and the meaning of human affairs. Mr. Polanyi does not profess to be writing history - he is rewriting it. He is not bringing a candle light into one of its dark corners, nor is he plausibly making it the public scripture of his private faith; instead, with insight as well as with knowledge, he is shedding a new illumination on the processes and revolutions of a whole age of unexampled change.
John Wilson Feb 11, 2013
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Research shows that as of 2011 renewable energy is cheaper than gas or coal in Australia. Undoubtedly the gas and coal companies will be trying to prevent this type of research from becoming known for other regions like Asia, Europe, North America, South America and Africa. More than likely it is already true or soon will be.
Crowdsourcing Solar Investment
John Wilson Feb 6, 2013
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Solar makes economic sense despite the lack of a carbon/pollution tax and despite the trillions of dollars in subsidies that have been given to oil, coal, gas, nuclear and transportation over the last fifty plus years. Yet, despite oil, coal, gas, nuclear and transportation industries passing on the true costs to tax payers like you and me for the past fifty years, solar power still makes economic sense in competition with and against the perpetrators of the greatest crimes against humanity, that results from the use of fossil and nuclear energy.
George Orwell Feb 4, 2013
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Prescient story of capitalisms corporate creation of a surveillance state by George Orewell. "WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH."
An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith Feb 4, 2013
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The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniencies of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.
Common Sense
Thomas Paine Jan 24, 2013
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Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not YET sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. As a long and violent abuse of power, is generally the Means of calling the right of it in question (and in Matters too which might never have been thought of, had not the Sufferers been aggravated into the inquiry) and as the King of England hath undertaken in his OWN RIGHT, to support the Parliament in what he calls THEIRS, and as the good people of this country are grievously oppressed by the combination, they have an undoubted privilege to inquire into the pretensions of both, and equally to reject the usurpation of either. In the following sheets, the author hath studiously avoided every thing which is personal among ourselves. Compliments as well as censure to individuals make no part thereof. The wise, and the worthy, need not the triumph of a pamphlet; and those whose sentiments are injudicious, or unfriendly, will cease of themselves unless too much pains are bestowed upon their conversion. The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind. Many circumstances hath, and will arise, which are not local, but universal, and through which the principles of all Lovers of Mankind are affected, and in the Event of which, their Affections are interested. The laying a Country desolate with Fire and Sword, declaring War against the natural rights of all Mankind, and extirpating the Defenders thereof from the Face of the Earth, is the Concern of every Man to whom Nature hath given the Power of feeling; of which Class, regardless of Party Censure, is the AUTHOR. P.S. The Publication of this new Edition hath been delayed, with a View of taking notice (had it been necessary) of any Attempt to refute the Doctrine of Independance: As no Answer hath yet appeared, it is now presumed that none will, the Time needful for getting such a Performance ready for the Public being considerably past. Who the Author of this Production is, is wholly unnecessary to the Public, as the Object for Attention is the DOCTRINE ITSELF, not the MAN. Yet it may not be unnecessary to say, That he is unconnected with any Party, and under no sort of Influence public or private, but the influence of reason and principle.
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
Charles Darwin Jan 23, 2013
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When on board H.M.S. Beagle, as naturalist, I was much struck with certain facts in the distribution of the organic beings inhabiting South America, and in the geological relations of the present to the past inhabitants of that continent. These facts, as will be seen in the latter chapters of this volume, seemed to throw some light on the origin of species—that mystery of mysteries, as it has been called by one of our greatest philosophers. On my return home, it occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made out on this question by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it. After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in 1844 into a sketch of the conclusions, which then seemed to me probable: from that period to the present day I have steadily pursued the same object. I hope that I may be excused for entering on these personal details, as I give them to show that I have not been hasty in coming to a decision.
Solidarity and Idle No More
Paul Burrows Jan 23, 2013
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Defenders of the Land
Defenders of the Land Jan 21, 2013
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Competition Versus Freedom
John Wilson Jan 21, 2013
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Straw Bale House in Haiti
Tina Therrien Jan 20, 2013
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Co Housing Solar House in the City
John Wilson Jan 20, 2013
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Organic Transit Solar Vehicle
John Wilson Jan 17, 2013
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Odyssey AGM Battery Charging
John Wilson Jan 17, 2013
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Budapest Open Access Initiative
Budapest Open Access Initiative Jan 16, 2013
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Open Access Overview
Peter Suber Jan 16, 2013
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Guerrilla Open Access Manifesto
Aaron Swartz Jan 15, 2013
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John Wilson Jan 7, 2013
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Wikisource Jan 2, 2013
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Wikibooks on Open iPub
John Wilson Jan 2, 2013
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Wikipedia Articles on Open iPub
John Wilson Dec 27, 2012
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Solar Cities
John Wilson Dec 27, 2012
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Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy Dec 24, 2012
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War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy / Tolstoi Dec 24, 2012
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The Letters of a Post-Impressionist
Vincent Van Gogh Dec 23, 2012
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Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
Giorgio Vasari Dec 23, 2012
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Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes [Saavedra] Translated by John Ormsby Dec 22, 2012
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Publishing with iPub on an iPad
John Wilson Dec 19, 2012
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Defense of Mother Earth
JOSE ANTONIO ZAMORA GUTIERREZ Dec 16, 2012
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Guadeloupe sailing trip: intermediate sailing course
John Wilson Dec 12, 2012
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Boxee Box, my new favourite toy
Ian Hoar Dec 12, 2012
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Leo Tolstoy Dec 11, 2012
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The book I have had the privilege of translating is, undoubtedly, one of the most remarkable studies of the social and psychological condition of the modern world which has appeared in Europe for many years, and its influence is sure to be lasting and far reaching. Tolstoi's genius is beyond dispute. The verdict of the civilized world has pronounced him as perhaps the greatest novelist of our generation. But the philosophical and religious works of his later years have met with a somewhat indifferent reception. They have been much talked about, simply because they were his work, but, as Tolstoi himself complains, they have never been seriously discussed. I hardly think that he will have to repeat the complaint in regard to the present volume. One may disagree with his views, but no one can seriously deny the originality, boldness, and depth of the social conception which he develops with such powerful logic. The novelist has shown in this book the religious fervor and spiritual insight of the prophet; yet one is pleased to recognize that the artist is not wholly lost in the thinker. The subtle intuitive perception of the psychological basis of the social position, the analysis of the frame of mind of oppressors and oppressed, and of the intoxication of Authority and Servility, as well as the purely descriptive passages in the last chapter—these could only have come from the author of "War and Peace."
Three Acres and Liberty
Bolton Hall Dec 9, 2012
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"A sower went out to sow and he sowed that which was in his heart—for what can a man sow else!" From "THE GAME OF LIFE." "And think of the cleansing influence of all this. Light and air and labor—these are the medicines not of the body only, but of the soul. It is not ponderable things alone that are found in gardens, but the great wonder of life, the peace of nature, the influences of sunsets and seasons and of all the intangible things to which we can give no name, not because they are small, but because they are outside the compass of our speech. The God that dwells in gardens is sufficient for all our needs—let the theologians say what they will." - Bolton Hall
Farmer of Forty Centuries
F. H. KING, D. Sc. Dec 9, 2012
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Solar Thermal Upgrade: Heating and Hot Water
John Wilson Nov 24, 2012
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Our Colorado Off-The-Grid Solar Home
Jon Klima Nov 19, 2012
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This modern off-the-grid solar home in the Colorado Rockies demonstrates the beauty and elegance of intelligent design that combines efficiency with renewable energy systems to create a comfortable and inexpensive lifestyle.
CIVILIZATION AND BEYOND - Learning From History
Scott Nearing Oct 1, 2012
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I propose in this inquiry to state certain accepted facts from the history of civilizations and of contemporary experience. I also propose to analyze the facts and generalize them in such a way that the results of the study may provide an understanding of the human social past, together with some guide-lines that will prove useful in the formulation and implementation of the present-day policy and procedure of civilized peoples, nations, empires and of the western civilization.
Green Economy or Greed Economy
TheSolarVillage.com Sep 23, 2012
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Quote: Far from cooking up a plan to save the Earth, what may come out of the summit could instead be a deal to surrender the living world to a small cabal of bankers and engineers. Tensions are already rising between northern countries and southern countries…and suspicions are running high that the…'green economy' is more likely to deliver a greenwash economy or the same old, same old 'greed' economy.
2012 International Year of Sustainable Energy
Sidney Draggan Ph.D. (Lead Author) Sep 21, 2012
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On 16 February 2011, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a Resolution (A/RES/65/151) declaring Year 2012 to be the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All.
Zeitgeist Film Series
Peter Joseph Sep 11, 2012
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Zeitgeist movie series by director Peter Joseph, is a feature length documentary work which presents a case for a transition out of the current socioeconomic monetary paradigm which governs the entire world society. This subject matter transcends the issues of cultural relativism and traditional ideology and moves to relate the core, empirical "life ground" attributes of human and social survival, extrapolating those immutable natural laws into a new sustainable social paradigm called a "Resource-Based Economy".
Wilson Solar Home
John Wilson Sep 7, 2012
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By joining thousands who have already put solar on their roof you become part of a movement that provides hope for our children. It has been estimated that if just 10% of us cover our rooftops with solar we could power the entire country...specifically the United States and Canada (who consume substantially more than European countries per capita). Imagine millions of us, making a reasonable investment of $200/month ($20,000 loan over 10 years) that will double our money in twenty years, while generating electricity without any pollution or fuel costs. While 90% of us want to protect the environment it is my belief that at least 10% of us are willing to invest now to make it happen. That gives me, and should you, a great deal of hope. We can do this.
Mother Earth
Emma Goldman Aug 21, 2012
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Mother Earth will endeavor to attract and appeal to all those who oppose encroachment on public and individual life. It will appeal to those who strive for something higher, weary of the commonplace; to those who feel that stagnation is a deadweight on the firm and elastic step of progress; to those who breathe freely only in limitless space; to those who long for the tender shade of a new dawn for a humanity free from the dread of want, the dread of starvation in the face of mountains of riches. The Earth free for the free individual!
Sun Rise: Section 3 - Finding the Path
John Wilson Aug 20, 2012
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This down-to-earth book explains in simple terms, how we all can start using solar energy, wind power, breathing walls, straw bale home construction techniques, passive solar design, smart windows, green roofs, and composting – today! You'll learn how John Wilson and his family made their dreams come true as they explain how to make Natural Living work for you. You'll learn about the process John discovered to make it all come together. You'll get the details on how much it cost and what it took to get a wind turbine, solar panels, the hydro meter running backwards, grass on the roof, and a furnace the size of a bread box that doesn't burn fossil fuels. Here is the book that breaks down many of the barriers to a sustainable lifestyle, and shows what is attainable today. I truly believe that, as in my own case, once people see what others have achieved, they will be inspired and emboldened to make the changes suggested in this book.
Sun Rise: Section 2 - Natural Living
John Wilson Aug 20, 2012
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This down-to-earth book explains in simple terms, how we all can start using solar energy, wind power, breathing walls, straw bale home construction techniques, passive solar design, smart windows, green roofs, and composting – today! You'll learn how John Wilson and his family made their dreams come true as they explain how to make Natural Living work for you. You'll learn about the process John discovered to make it all come together. You'll get the details on how much it cost and what it took to get a wind turbine, solar panels, the hydro meter running backwards, grass on the roof, and a furnace the size of a bread box that doesn't burn fossil fuels. Here is the book that breaks down many of the barriers to a sustainable lifestyle, and shows what is attainable today. I truly believe that, as in my own case, once people see what others have achieved, they will be inspired and emboldened to make the changes suggested in this book.
Sun Rise: Section 1 - Where are we going?
John Wilson Aug 20, 2012
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This down-to-earth book explains in simple terms, how we all can start using solar energy, wind power, breathing walls, straw bale home construction techniques, passive solar design, smart windows, green roofs, and composting – today! You'll learn how John Wilson and his family made their dreams come true as they explain how to make Natural Living work for you. You'll learn about the process John discovered to make it all come together. You'll get the details on how much it cost and what it took to get a wind turbine, solar panels, the hydro meter running backwards, grass on the roof, and a furnace the size of a bread box that doesn't burn fossil fuels. Here is the book that breaks down many of the barriers to a sustainable lifestyle, and shows what is attainable today. I truly believe that, as in my own case, once people see what others have achieved, they will be inspired and emboldened to make the changes suggested in this book.
Video: Fight of Our Time
John Wilson Aug 19, 2012
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Solar Village Declares Global Emergency
John Wilson Aug 17, 2012
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Movie: Switch to a Smarter Energy Future
John Wilson Aug 17, 2012
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A US centric view of energy as the most important issue facing humanity. Oddly, the film fails to compare the success of the US program with the European perspective. As Germany reaches 30% renewable energy with far fewer natural renewable resources, the US is still stuck in the large energy mentality of 5-10 years to change anything. Reality is that nothing can change as quickly as the switch to renewable energy. Germany is installing gigawatts of solar photovoltaic every quarter, producing more power than conventional non-renewable energy sources in timeframes the old fossil/uranium industries can't even conceive of.
Solar Village in Africa
John Wilson Aug 16, 2012
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Solar Future, Beautiful World
John Wilson Aug 16, 2012
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NY Times: The Conversion of a Climate-Change Skeptic
John Wilson Aug 7, 2012
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Sun Rise: Your Complete Guide to Sustainable Living
John Wilson Jul 31, 2012
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This down-to-earth book explains in simple terms, how we all can start using solar energy, wind power, breathing walls, straw bale home construction techniques, passive solar design, smart windows, green roofs, and composting – today! You'll learn how John Wilson and his family made their dreams come true as they explain how to make Natural Living work for you. You'll learn about the process John discovered to make it all come together. You'll get the details on how much it cost and what it took to get a wind turbine, solar panels, the hydro meter running backwards, grass on the roof, and a furnace the size of a bread box that doesn't burn fossil fuels. Here is the book that breaks down many of the barriers to a sustainable lifestyle, and shows what is attainable today. I truly believe that, as in my own case, once people see what others have achieved, they will be inspired and emboldened to make the changes suggested in this book.
Energy Autonomy Manifesto
John Wilson Jul 27, 2012
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How to Get to 100% Renewable Energy
John Wilson Jul 26, 2012
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As fossil fuel prices continue to rise, as climate change driven by the continued use of fossil fuels drives further devastation, as our economic systems decline and fail along with life on earth, we must make the transformation to 100% renewable energy. This dynamic and continuously updated ebook will provide information on how to make the transformation happen before it is too late.
Scientific Case for Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change to Protect Young People and Nature
James Hansen and other scientists Jul 26, 2012
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The most basic matter is not one of economics, however. It is a matter of morality – a matter of intergenerational justice. As with the earlier great moral issue of slavery, an injustice done by one race of humans to another, so the injustice of one generation to all those to come must stir the public's conscience to the point of action.
Policies for Sustainable Development that Work
John Wilson Jul 26, 2012
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Jul 24, 2012
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Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
Chris Hedges Jul 24, 2012
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See this video talking about his latest book. "Faith in that fighting for the sanctity of life is always worth it. Because you know, if we don't fight, then we are finished. Then we signed our own death sentence. And Camus writes about this in "The Rebel," that I think resistance becomes a kind of way of protecting our own worth as an individual, our own dignity, our own self-respect. And I think resistance does always leave open the possibility of change. And if we don't resist, then we've essentially extinguished that hope." - Chris Hedges
Peoples Agreement
People of the Earth Jul 23, 2012
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Today, our Mother Earth is wounded and the future of humanity is in danger.
Universal Declaration of Rights of Mother Earth
People and Nations of Earth Jul 23, 2012
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Electric Yacht Sailboat Conversion
John Wilson Jul 23, 2012
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Trekking Nepal Christmas 1983
John Wilson Jul 23, 2012
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J. KRISHNAMURTI Jul 21, 2012
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Why does solar make so much sense?
John Wilson Jul 20, 2012
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We live in a world with a great deal of uncertainty. We see that in the economic catastrophe we've been living in for the past four years. Over the next 16 years global warming will continue to increase the frequency and severity of storms, drought, flooding, and record temperatures. Depleting reserves of oil and gas and coal promise to further escalate both economic and climate change uncertainty and catastrophe. One thing we do know is that the sun will come up each day. That means we can always use solar energy. Wherever we are we can grow food in even the smallest apartment with even the smallest window. By installing solar we can heat our water. Using solar photovoltaic panels we can generate electricity. With storage tanks for hot water and batteries for storing electricity we can move to 100% renewable energy. Doing so now means that we establish a level of certainty ecnomically speaking as we pay for 30-40 years or more of energy that requires no fuel. Since the sun rises every day we can't be destroyed by the uncertain cost of escalating fuel costs.
Five times as much oil, coal, gas...as scientists think is safe to burn...
John Wilson Jul 19, 2012
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Welcome to Energy Lens
Prima Deena Jul 19, 2012
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Freedom's Battle
Mahatma Gandhi Jul 18, 2012
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After the great war it is difficult, to point out a single nation that is happy; but this has come out of the war, that there is not a single nation outside India, that is not either free or striving to be free. It is said that we, too, are on the road to freedom, that it is better to be on the certain though slow course of gradual unfoldment of freedom than to take the troubled and dangerous path of revolution whether peaceful or violent, and that the new Reforms are a half-way house to freedom. The new constitution granted to India keeps all the military forces, both in the direction and in the financial control, entirely outside the scope of responsibility to the people of India. What does this mean? It means that the revenues of India are spent away on what the nation does not want. But after the mid-Eastern complications and the fresh Asiatic additions to British Imperial spheres of action. This Indian military servitude is a clear danger to national interests. The new constitution gives no scope for retrenchment and therefore no scope for measures of social reform except by fresh taxation, the heavy burden of which on the poor will outweigh all the advantages of any reforms. It maintains all the existing foreign services, and the cost of the administrative machinery high as it already is, is further increased. The reformed constitution keeps all the fundamental liberties of person, property, press, and association completely under bureaucratic control. All those laws which give to the irresponsible officers of the Executive Government of India absolute powers to override the popular will, are still unrepealed. In spite of the tragic price paid in the Punjab for demonstrating the danger of unrestrained power in the hands of a foreign bureaucracy and the inhumanity of spirit by which tyranny in a panic will seek to save itself, we stand just where we were before, at the mercy of the Executive in respect of all our fundamental liberties. Not only is Despotism intact in the Law, but unparalleled crimes and cruelties against the people have been encouraged and even after boastful admissions and clearest proofs, left unpunished. The spirit of unrepentant cruelty has thus been allowed to permeate the whole administration.
A Letter to a Hindu
Leo Tolstoy Jul 17, 2012
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Green Roof
John Wilson Jul 16, 2012
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Green Computing Power
John Wilson Jul 16, 2012
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Solar Desk
John Wilson Jul 16, 2012
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Gandhi Principle
John Wilson Jul 16, 2012
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GM Chevy Volt almost maintenance free
John Wilson Jul 13, 2012
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Technology innovation for non-techies
John Wilson Jul 12, 2012
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Electric Engine Conversion
John Wilson Jul 11, 2012
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What do you do when you when your old engine needs repair or lets you down at the worst possible moment. Haven't we figured out a more modern, quite, clean, reliable alternative yet to gas or diesel? Electric cars seem to be arriving on the scene. Why not an electric motor for the boat? So a journey to convert our 1974 C&C 35 sailboat from noisy and unreliable gas power auxiliary engine into a smooth and efficient electric began. Going Electric Engine trouble A few years ago we bought a 1974 C&C 35. This beautiful sailboat came complete with the infamous original old Atomic 4 gasoline engine as auxiliary. A number of people had told me this was a converted old tractor motor that could be relied upon most of the time and with some regular maintenance that included regularly replacing quite a number of the parts, most of which can still be found, often used, and could still be operated quite successfully. We'd just bought the boat and were learning to sail. We'd completed the beginner and intermediate cruising courses, and were looking forward to getting out on the lake to enjoy our new sailboat. Key words: electric boat conversion
Straw Bale Home
Building a sustainable future
John Wilson Jul 8, 2012
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Solar Power Investing
Feed-in Tariff
John Wilson Jun 21, 2012
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Anarchism and Other Essays
Emma Goldman Jun 18, 2012
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"Why do you not say how things will be operated under Anarchism?" is a question I have had to meet thousands of times. Because I believe that Anarchism can not consistently impose an iron-clad program or method on the future. The things every new generation has to fight, and which it can least overcome, are the burdens of the past, which holds us all as in a net. Anarchism, at least as I understand it, leaves posterity free to develop its own particular systems, in harmony with its needs. Our most vivid imagination can not foresee the potentialities of a race set free from external restraints. How, then, can any one assume to map out a line of conduct for those to come? We, who pay dearly for every breath of pure, fresh air, must guard against the tendency to fetter the future. If we succeed in clearing the soil from the rubbish of the past and present, we will leave to posterity the greatest and safest heritage of all ages.
Renewable Energy
Wikipedia Jun 14, 2012
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Solar World: Renewable Energy
John Wilson Jun 6, 2012
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Dr. David Suzuki and Dr. Hermann Scheer explain how we must change our way of thinking about the "existential" problems we face. Hope for a change in the future is possible with the rapid switch to renewable energy and renewable resources. Topics covered include perspectives on the problems we face, new thinking that can change everything, and how Germany has proven Ontario can be powered 100% by renewable energy.
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Solar City: Solar Village
John Wilson Jun 6, 2012
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Meet the people of Freiburg Germany who are leading the world towards a city that is 100% powered by renewable energy and resources. Learn how to create solar villages through community engagement, key turning points, community investing and new policies that have worked.
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Solar House: Wilson Natural Home
John Wilson Jun 6, 2012
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Meet Leigh Geraghty and John Wilson who have built a solar powered house that produces more energy that it consumes. Learn about straw bale, green roof, solar heating, solar electricity, and solar electricity storage, concepts you can use in your new home or renovation.
Solar World Movies Series
100% Renewable Energy
John Wilson Jun 6, 2012
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Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? You'll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier.
There are those struggling to change this. The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it. But even under the best scenarios, their work will only apply to things published in the future. Everything up until now will have been lost.
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"I agree," many say, "but what can we do? The companies hold the copyrights, they make enormous amounts of money by charging for access, and it's perfectly legal - there's nothing we can do to stop them." But there is something we can, something that's already being done: we can fight back.
Those with access to these resources - students, librarians, scientists - you have been given a privilege. You get to feed at this banquet of knowledge while the rest of the world is locked out. But you need not - indeed, morally, you cannot - keep this privilege for yourselves. You have a duty to share it with the world. And you have: trading passwords with colleagues, filling download requests for friends.
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Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less. And the politicians they have bought off back them, passing laws giving them the exclusive power to decide who can make copies.
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We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that's out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks. We need to fight for Guerilla Open Access.
With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge - we'll make it a thing of the past. Will you join us?
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Jay Shells does street art in New York. This one he calls Rap Quotes.
He takes song lyrics that mention a specific part of town and puts up a sign with those lyrics at that spot. There's a visual/audio/emotional sort of connection built, especially if you know the songs.
It's probably something any number of street artists could do in any sung-about big city. (Doesn't have to be rap either. The lyrics in Shells' work have hard edges.)
He doesn't have permission of course. And he expects the signs to be stolen in a matter of hours, maybe days, a week tops. Unless of course the authorities do it first. And he's fine with that.
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BY MARK LAZERUS Staff Reporter June 1, 2014 5:36PM
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It'll hurt for a while, this loss. As Jonathan Toews said earlier in the week, championship windows are hard to come by, and they don't stay open forever. So every year without a Stanley Cup, every season that comes to an end not with hoisting a trophy but rather with a handshake and a trudge, is an opportunity lost. In its harshest, most black-and-white terms, it's a waste.
"People forget pretty quick about the team that came up short," Toews said. "We never want to be that team."
But there was little shame in this one, this 5-4 overtime loss to the remarkable and resilient Los Angeles Kings. Alec Martinez's shot deflected in off of Nick Leddy's torso at 5:47 of overtime to end the Blackhawks' season two weeks too early, and it surely will sting for a long time to come. But the Hawks and Kings staged one of the greatest series in recent memory, and one way or another, a great championship-caliber team was going to lose.
On this night, it was the Hawks, who came all the way back from 3-1 down to force a Game 7, only to see the Kings erase three deficits to win that Game 7. The Kings move on to face the New York Rangers in the Stanley Cup Final. The Hawks are done.
"I've lost some tough games," Hawks coach Joel Quenneville said. "But nothing like tonight."
The loss brings to an end maybe the dizziest year and a half in team history, a whirlwind of success that started with a record 21-0-3 start when the lockout ended last January, and didn't stop until the Kings skated off the United Center ice as Western Conference champions on Sunday night.
In a little more than 16 months, the Hawks played 178 games. They won a Presidents' Trophy. They won a Stanley Cup. They held a parade. They spent the shortest summer in hockey history celebrating instead of relaxing. They played a full 82-game season. Ten of them — more than half of the 19 who played in Game 7 — flew to Russia to play even more games in the Olympics, six of them going all the way to the gold-medal game. Then another grueling run, with a draining first-round series against hard-hitting St. Louis, and a surprisingly taxing six-game battle with Minnesota. Then this Western Conference final, this unforgettable, back-and-forth, to-the-bitter-end battle with the unkillable Kings. The Hawks insisted they weren't out of gas, but throughout the postseason, they only looked like their old selves in high-energy, dominant spurts — never for a full 60 minutes.
As a result, they couldn't do the impossible. They couldn't become the first team to erase a 3-1 series deficit in consecutive postseasons. They couldn't become the first team to beat these Kings in the ultimate game (Sunday's lineup is now a combined 83-2 in Game 7s). And they couldn't become the first team to repeat as Stanley Cup champions in the salary-cap era, the first since the 1998 Red Wings.
"It's a tough league," Quenneville said. "It's a tough thing to do to win the Cup."
But they came so close.
"One shot, one goal away from going to play for the Cup," Duncan Keith said. "It's just really disappointing. I don't know what else to say."
They'll have a longer summer now. It'll be quieter this time, too — more time to think, to rue, to wonder what-if. They had a 2-0 lead on goals by Brandon Saad and Toews, only to see Jeff Carter and Justin Williams tie it. They had a 3-2 lead on a Patrick Sharp goal 12 seconds later, only to see Tyler Toffoli tie it. They took a 4-3 lead into the third on another Sharp goal, only to see Marian Gaborik tie it with 7:17 left.
They had their chances — their chances to win the series, to make history, to have an opportunity to make more. But there'll be no Cup this spring. No parade. No Grant Park rally. No summer of love. Just three months of wondering, of waiting, and, mostly, of working — so they can try to do it all over again next season.
After all, much as this one stings, that window's still open.
"It's tough. You never want to lose," Toews said. "When you get the feeling, when you get the chance to win a Stanley Cup, and you win another one, you see how great it feels and how amazing it is to be a part of a group like that — that gives everything and gets the result you want. Especially when the city of Chicago rallies around you. To come up short, it's not fun. Especially knowing what we're missing out on."
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