"Edupunks" are the radicals who want to liberate scholarship and learning from the constraints of institutions altogether. I also call them the monks, and they're part of the coming transformation of higher education. 

The state, like the market, is nothing more than a human creation. And as human creations, they ought to be within our collective power to transform them. The bursting of the debt bubble has provided a once-in-a-lifetime opening to begin right now.

A recent survey of the 20 top concerns among Americans ranked global warming dead last. As the economic crisis digs in, people are mainly worried about their own little igloo, without realizing it's sitting on thinner and thinner ice.

My visit to the farm of the future, a prototype perpetual agriculture system capable of meeting regional food and energy needs in conditions of global warming, fluctuating energy supplies, and an oil-dependent global economy.