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An update on all things Dark Optimism
Hey friends, It's been a busy year — not least with building out our thriving Surviving the Future community in its gorgeous new online home — and I'm aware that this blog has been a little neglected lately! So I wanted to share here the below update sent out to my mailing list, covering that new site, January's forthcoming Deeper Dive and our new guests, my forthcoming appearance at the Revolution in the 21st Century online international festival, our global community map, books from our...
Death and Rebirth: Farewell, dear Schumacher College, hello new friends
Ah, Schumacher College. There's a name to conjure with... For so many of us, it summons magical memories of truly life-changing times. To this day, I remember the tingling surge of energy in my body during the fortnight of the "Life After Oil" course I took there in 2006 — as one attendee put it, I had the air about me of a man in an oasis, after wandering a desert for years. And with good reason. It was there that I first found a peer group around my concern about our collective future. There...
