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DIY Food Department: Urban Gardens Deepen and Diversify

Okay, folks. What are we waiting for? From our back yards, front yards, side yards, to sharing our yards with others, to my son Colin’s Garden Tower Project, to gardens in the commons of our apartment buildings, or on the roof, to neighborhood gardens, to city park farms, to community supported agriculture, to farmers markets, […]

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CAN psychedelics cure our “collective insanity”?

I’ve already done quite a few posts on psycheledics and consciousness (google “LSD exopermaculture” for example), to say that I can personally attest to the efficacy of psychedelics to dramatically alter (melt down, fracture, see through) the unconscious structures of consciousness — to the point where, often, one sees/knows for the first time that indeed […]

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ART: The Rape of Africa

“David LaChapelle is known internationally for his exceptional talent in combining a unique hyper-realistic aesthetic with profound social messages.” YES! Here he demonstrates visually the ongoing AFRICON, as detailed by Nick Turse: Wonder why the AFRICOM pivot to Africa? Check out this map. (Go to original of article below for the many url links.) David […]

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Nick Rosen, filmmaker: “Off-grid pioneers are the foot solders of the environmental revolution.”

As I continue to spend several hours each day researching the internet for this exopermaculture blog, I am consistently drawn into one of two alternating tracks. These are: documenting the increasing centralization and monculturing of everything, e.g. the post I just put up; and the other, documenting the increasing decentralization and diversification of everything. BOTH. […]

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What if universities aren’t universities anymore?

As I walk around this university town, I’m struck by all the massive new buildings. Here’s the name of one of them: CIB: “Cyberinfrastructure Building,” which, a quick google search tells me, is the “new home to the Lilly Endowment — and NSA-funded Pervasive Technology Institute. There’s also the new Indiana University Data Center, “which […]

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