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.
[Jul. 19, 2024] News: The Paths of Ishmael New and Ancient Ways of Living VCC is under construction. Visit again soon to see the progress.
[Apr. 21, 2026] SlaveryToday VCC opened: The "Fighting Modern Slavery VCC" has been initialized and is open now.
[Apr. 19, 2026] Earth Energy Imbalance is Increasing Rapidly: Finally the extreme increase in the Earth Energy Imbalance (EEI) is slowly starting to make headlines - far too late, though. The article “ What are zettajoules – and what do they tell us about Earth’s energy imbalance?” by Jonathan Watts published in the Guardian explains some of the basics. Importantly, the EEI double within only 13 years. In another article by Watts also in the Guardian and titled “ Earth being ‘pushed beyond its limits’ as energy imbalance reaches record high” the author points out that the World Meteorological Organization warned that Earth is struggling with a record energy imbalance, which is warming the oceans to unprecedented levels, making weather more extreme and threatening health and food supplies. Considering that Earth is more like a pool house with a very large pool than a greenhouse, the ocean is only delaying the heating of the atmosphere but not preventing it.
