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Jun 7, 2013
by Lakis Polycarpou, City of the Future
In practice, self-reliance can be harder than permaculture experts sometimes make it sound. This is where Eric Toensmeier’s 'Paradise Lot' comes in. Anyone who finds him or herself discouraged in their permaculture garden efforts should take heart and read this book.
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Feb 8, 2013
by David Bergman, EcoOptimism
The basic tenet of the steady state economy (or SSE) is an observation that makes complete sense: you can’t have infinite growth in a finite system. Unfortunately, conventional economics – perhaps in an attempt to defy its characterization as the dismal science – says …
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Feb 5, 2013
by Nick Rose, On Line Opinion
Sacred Economics is a hugely ambitious book. It takes aim at the most basic intellectual and moral foundations of our modern industrial societies. The author, Charles Eisenstein, is fully aware that many of his arguments and proposals will seem naïve, utopian and hopelessly idealistic to …
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Jan 27, 2013
by Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
It is hard to imagine a more unlikely vehicle for advancing energy literacy than a finely crafted large format picture book. Energy, after all, is invisible. We see its effects, but never the thing itself. And yet, Energy: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth succeeds and succeeds …
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Dec 14, 2012
by Lindsay Curren, Transition Voice
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. With that in mind, the 195 color, mostly full page — often double page — photographs in the Post Carbon Institute’s latest book, ENERGY: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth, speaks volumes beyond its gigantic sized …
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Dec 7, 2012
by Joe Brewer, Cognitive Policy Works
Have you ever noticed that some things in the world like to be disrupted? Rogue militant groups set out to garner counter-attacks that distract their opponents while draining their resources. Viruses encourage multi-cellular organisms to activate their immune systems in attempts to wipe them …
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Nov 26, 2012
by Erik Curren, Transition Voice
If you look closely, you'll see that local government is not just something you need to get around and that you don't, in fact, have to fight City Hall. Indeed, City Hall may be just waiting for you to walk through the front door and take your place as an active citizen.
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Nov 7, 2012
by Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
What geographical area offers the best chance of survival during the coming oil shortage?
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Nov 7, 2012
by Joanne Poyourow, Transition US
What we have now is the McDonald's of democracy.
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Sep 12, 2012
by Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
...Kunstler has a new work of social criticism titled Too Much Magic, his first nonfiction book since The Long Emergency came out in 2005. The book is an inquiry into a skewed, delusional perception of reality that Kunstler thinks has become “baseline normal for the American public …
