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PROGRESS?
About 35 years ago, my friends and I came to Tennessee from all around America. We landed in a little place called Lewis County, where nothing much had ever happened—Hohenwald, the county seat, hadn’t...
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BIOREGIONAL ROOTS
Under the rather ill-fitting title “Manhood in the Age of Aquarius,” Tim Hogdon has written the story of the Digger movement in San Francisco, as well as a take on the history of The Farm in...
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CONTINENTAL CONGRESS TO CONVENE IN TENNESSEE
The North American Bioregional Congress is coming to Tennessee in 2009. Its three hundred or so participants will arrive at The Farm, in Summertown, next September. They will spend a week in intensive...
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PLEASANTLY SURPRISED
I was an early booster of CBCX, the tenth Continental Bioregional Congress, which took place about a month ago down on the Farm in Summertown, Tennessee, but when my health fell apart, I dropped out...
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“SCIENCE-BASED MEDICINE”?
I spent quite a bit of time last month doing something unusual for me–following the comment thread on a blog post. The post was on a site called “Science-Based Medicine,” and its author (whose name I...
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BUILDING BRIDGES
I have long believed in the importance of talking with people with whom I disagree strongly, although I have not always been successful in creating the healing dialogues I long for. Towards the end of...
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OCCUPY EVERYWHERE
I have a cousin who used to work for the World Bank, back in the day when most people thought highly of that institution. His specialty was bringing potable water into urban neighborhoods in Africa,...
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FARMER’S MARKUP
There has been a flurry of concern in Nashville lately, in some circles, because the Nashville Farmers’ Market is not meeting its expenses, let alone returning a profit to the city, and so there has...
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HI, MY NAME IS MARTIN, AND I’M ADDICTED TO HOT SHOWERS
I have been aware of the looming collapse of our ecosystem for over thirty years now. In the early 80′s, my friends and I concluded that, at some point, humans would cause the extinction of some...
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HOW WE ARE SURVIVING THE GREAT POLAR VORTEXES OF 2014
When I was a kid/teenager, growing up in a safe, quiet suburb, I loved adventure novels and movies, stories in which the hero/ine had to deal, not so much with evil people, but with the impartial force...
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INTERPERSONAL PERMACULTURE
written by Martin Twenty years ago, when I was living in Vermont, a friend of mine moved from there down to middle Tennessee to join a startup permaculture community that was going to be centered...
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EDWARD SNOWDEN AND THE FARM
I recently read one of Glenn Greenwald’s articles on Edward Snowden’s leaks. The story was called “How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations.” When I...
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SNOWDEN AND THE FARM, PART TWO
A remarkable number of people have read my “Edward Snowden and The Farm” post, although there has not been a lot of discussion about it on WordPress. In a way that’s fine with me, because I have been...
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FROM THE MAILBAG
I received the following response to my July essay, “The Second Amendment.” I was in the middle of a lot of other things when I received it, so I published it, gave a brief response, and promised more...
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WHAT ONE PERSON CAN ACCOMPLISH
Stephen Gaskin, who was my first spiritual teacher, died last month. I want to take this opportunity to appreciate the man and his work. Perhaps the first thing is to clarify is what I’m talking about...
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EDWARD SNOWDEN AND THE FARM, v.3.1.1–COUP D’ETAT?
This has been a difficult piece for me to write and share. I suspect it is similar to the internal process I might undergo if I were inquiring as to whether I had been molested as a child, or raped...
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