Food & Water

Economics: The Sound of Aunt Edna’s Knitting

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As today’s economics of imaginary wealth comes apart under the stress of peak oil, talk about a “new economy” misses the point. What’s needed — and can be built, starting with actions on a personal scale — is an old economy, in which money exchanges play a much smaller role.

A reflection on cities of the future

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We will be lucky if we can make the transition from our current circumstances to a future of re-sized, re-scaled cities and a reactivated productive rural landscape outside them, with a hierarchy of hamlets, villages, and towns in between, and some ability to conduct commerce and manufacturing.