A Review of ‘The Age of Low Tech’ by Philippe Bihouix
The Age Low Tech is a funny, informal, practical, angry, and subtly deep book. Released in 2014, its discussion of energy crisis and supply chain fragility feel prescient to 2022.
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Protect the Flame
It’s these fields of deepened connection — of radical shared presence — that can support the healing and can function as the soil and seed for a new civilization to emerge.
Douglas Rushkoff: “The Ultimate Exit Strategy”
Douglas and I discuss how human behavior interacts with technology and how we have arrived at a place with enormous wealth and income inequality just as society is rapidly approaching biophysical limits.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 85 Seth Godin
Seth Godin is an entrepreneur, best-selling author, and speaker. He addresses the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?
The Year in Which I Grow Our Food: An Introduction
Last year, when things really got dodgy and this year looked to be the start of things becoming terrible for the near future, I bit the bullet. I stayed home to raise the food we would eat.
Losing altitude
In today’s world a small elite takes multiple trips a year, turning vast energy resources into pollution, in journeys that don’t have a lot of value, even to themselves.
In extremis: The world at the edge of a cliff
The Russia-Ukraine conflict saw a major escalation this week. With the world economy on the brink, we’re in for a disquieting autumn.
The Power Podcast Episode 1: Introduction to Power
If we want to address this problem and reduce the chances of a chaotic collapse of society, we will have to confront our overuse and abuse of power.
Democracy Rising 26: Middle Schoolers as Deliberative Civic Actors
In addition to fostering communication and thinking skills, deliberation can lead to changes in how young people engage as learners and citizens.
The Inflation Reduction Act is a new lease on U.S. climate policy: Let’s not screw it up
It’s taken over 50 years for the nation’s policymakers to put together anything approximating an integrated energy and environment policy.
“We’ll Meet Them Out in the Fields” — Challenging the Pipelines to Nowhere
The pipeline struggle has brought together communities that rarely find common cause and can often be adversaries.
Boys and Oil with Taylor Brorby (Bonus episode of Crazy Town)
Taylor Brorby has written one hell of a memoir. It covers many critical topics that come up in Crazy Town, from fracking to civil disobedience to that most inept of policies: aiming for infinite economic growth on a finite planet.
