Index No. 5 (Start Here?)

A handful of posts I tend to refer to often

Jul 05, 2024

Index posts come at the end of each three-week publishing cadence. (For new readers, Pose Ponder publishes weekdays for three weeks on, one week off.) Indexes —indices? I can never decide — are an opportunity for me to gather together a handful of older posts and re-present them.

For Index No. 5, the theme is old posts I should (or do) cite a lot. Maybe these are a kind of “best of”? Maybe they’re a “start here”? Mostly they’re the things I keep on thinking about. Future indexes will continue this selection.

Have a great break and see you in a week!

P.S. — On Saturday mornings, per usual, you’ll get the weekly round-up.

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Tracy Gustilo

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I had two ambitious ideas for resource Friday today, but I’m going to punt on both. I was sitting in the dentist chair this morning getting a crown on a cracked tooth, and my jaw hurts. In any case, apropos of yesterday’s essay, this new post from Breakthrough just hit my inbox, and it’s right down our alley here at Trying-to-Be-Good-Humans-in-the-Anthro…

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PPE (No, not personal protective equipment)

Tracy Gustilo

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Capitalism's Pros and Cons

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Followers of Pose Ponder know I’m focused on how we humans might hope to navigate this new era named after our species and try to be better. Most concern with the Anthropocene goes to reporting on or trying to tackle issues of climate, energy, biodiversity loss, resources and waste, agriculture and land management, and planetary impacts (weather, fires,…

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To Grow or Not to Grow

Tracy Gustilo

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I’m a big fan of the Overton Window concept. Basically, it’s the idea that there’s a range of policy positions — could also apply to everyday life ideas — that make up the range of socially acceptable but debatable points. Beyond the edges of the “window” you get into territory that the vast majority of people won’t accept. It’s too radical or too dange…

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Index No. 5 (Start Here?)

A handful of posts I tend to refer to often

Posed: Good or Bad Anthropocene?

Why Lifelong Learning in the Anthropocene?

PPE (No, not personal protective equipment)

Capitalism's Pros and Cons

To Grow or Not to Grow

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