Weekly Pose Ponder No. 16

Summarizing the week's posts -- Findings ("Installing Solar"), continuing conversation on progress, Taming Complexity, MOTH governance, and more

Jun 08, 2024

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Thinking of installing solar? You’ll want to check out Live Susty’s guide. I’m continuing conversation with Michael Magoon on material progress. Wednesday’s featured Substack is Taming Complexity, one of my favorites. Thursday’s post was a special essay tapping into the world of MOTH (More-Than-Human), and a Friday index rounds out three weeks’ worth of writing — which means I’m on break and will see you next week!

PLUS. Parts 2 & 3 of my video conversation with Dan Allosso have been cross-posted. You can find those here and here.

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Findings: Installing Solar

Tracy Gustilo

Jun 3

Monday findings, from Substack and elsewhere. Anthropocene It’s one thing to learn about, think about, worry about the Anthropocene and what it means for humanity. It’s another thing to grapple with how to change one’s own life day to day. Our society’s economic and cultural systems, age-old habits (“traditions”), and built environment make it difficult t…

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Progress Local & Continuous

Tracy Gustilo

Jun 4

Michael Magoon was kind enough to respond in depth to my summary of his work ongoing over at From Poverty to Progress. I want to keep the conversation going. I’m going to accept his ante and raise him on questions of locality and continuity. Michael’s mission is focused on the

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Taming Complexity

Tracy Gustilo

Jun 5

One of my favorite Substacks is Taming Complexity written by Taylor Dotson and Michael Bouchey, both based in New Mexico. It’s not only because they write regular articles about my home state, since they cover global topics — particularly Japan — as well; it’s for the perspective they bring, and their deep knowledge of fascinating case studies I would never hear about otherwise. They are as likely…

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MOTH Governance

Tracy Gustilo

Jun 6

A transition to the Anthropocene — the Human Age — means that previously it wasn’t the Human Age. All ages that have gone before were non-human dominant. Humans fit into a larger whole, from when they started to exist (evolve) at all. To keep hold of some wisdom and reality in making our transition, we should keep hold of MOTH, the More-Than-Human.

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Index No. 4 (More Resources)

Tracy Gustilo

Jun 7

Index No. 1 collected resources from early in Pose Ponder’s publishing history. Here’s a second collection. For new subscribers, Pose Ponder publishes weekdays for three weeks on, then one week off. Writing daily is hard work, and I need time to immerse in my reading, catch up on my language studies (Korean and classical Chinese), organize travel, and te…

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Pose Ponder

Weekly Pose Ponder No. 16

Summarizing the week's posts -- Findings ("Installing Solar"), continuing conversation on progress, Taming Complexity, MOTH governance, and more

Findings: Installing Solar

Progress Local & Continuous

Taming Complexity

MOTH Governance

Index No. 4 (More Resources)

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