Luddites, Guilds, and Societies of Correspondence

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The Power and the Beauty of the Working Class The Present State of the Of the Working Entrepreneurial Class Once there was a popular phrase for a conceptual ideal. It Continue Reading →

Decentralized Opportunity Zones is the Future of Work-Life Balance

Photo by Stephanie Klepacki / Unsplash      In the Portland, Maine industrial opportunity zone, a homeless shelter is planned as a residence in a business but businesses in residence Continue Reading →

Nature vs Machine: Will Human Evolution Bifurcate?

As one stream flows deeper into an artificial world, an alternate current follows the way of nature. How will this play out in human evolution? Michael Dziedzic / Unsplash I Continue Reading →

The LifeStyle Approach To Economic Development Makes An Environmentally Sustainable Paradigm

I find support for home businesses in unexpected places I have been trying to read the Camoin Report– a development plan for the Boothbay Peninsula in Maine. A local public-private group Continue Reading →

What Ceramic Casting Slip Can Tell About The Effects of Development On The Water Supply, That Our Political Leaders Won’t Say

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What Do Lessons from the Industrial Revolution Have to Tell Us Today?

 A historical reversal of direction underway? k-b-W-unsplash The nineteenth-century influenced the social-political and economic development of human life on earth in vibrant living color. Not! The nineteenth-century industrial revolution produced Continue Reading →

What is the Meaning of “Capitalism” and Other Out-Moded Terms?

wonderlane-unsplash In the Beginning: The true history of eleventh-century civilization is a source of inspiration for contemporary apocalypse dramas. After five centuries of living in danger and uncertainty, walls were Continue Reading →