Paths of Ishmael New and Ancient Ways of Living VCC
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Welcome to the Paths of Ishmael New and Ancient Ways of Living VCC. To learn about, understand, and be able to invent/ design new and ancient ways of living that are deeply satisfying and viable. This entails understanding the essential features of the the tribal lifestyles that were successful for thousands of years and being able to translate those essential features into a modern context. This does not mean foregoing all modern comforts, but it does mean developing ways of living that do not entail endemic crime, violence, mental illness, and unhappiness. Ancient tribes managed this so we should be able to do it also.

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[Aug 29, 2026] TLNP VCC opened: The "Towards Less Noice Pollution VCC" has been initialized and is open now.

[Aug 03, 2026] Alliance of World Scientists Declares Planetary Emergency: In the paper “ World scientists’ warning to humanity: a third notice” the Alliance of World Scientists includes the “Declaration of a planetary emergency.” The declaration states: “We, the undersigned, recognize that Earth is now in a state of planetary emergency. Climate change, biodiversity loss, land and freshwater degradation, pollution, and unsustainable production and consumption are destabilizing the Earth system that supports all life.”
You can sign the declaration here ...

[Aug 03, 2026] Hothouse Earth: arriving sooner than you think…: Julian Cribb writes in his latest blog: “Latest measurements, carefully analysed to exclude anomalies such as El Nino, reveal a planet cooking up at a steady 0.48 degrees per decade since 2015, in what is thought to be the most rapid heating event in all its geological history.” We are experiencing the most rapid heating event in Earth's billions of years long history! We have caused this event with a few hundred years of sole focus on unlimited growth using all the ancient solar energy accumulated by Earth's biosphere over more than 250 million years - just because we could! That is something to reflect on!