Retrotopia: You See it isn’t So
Our narrator apologizes for an almost-quarrel, spends an evening on the town, and gets a sudden insight into the nature of the Lakeland Republic’s achievement from a seemingly unlikely source…
Society
In Conversation: Consumerism After Fossil Fuels
What will consumerism be like in a post fossil fuels future?
Walking Makes Strides in All Kinds of Communities
Imagine living in one of America’s great walkable communities.
A Way to Reach Our Renewable Future?: Review
Now perhaps one need is for a citizen’s movement based on the idea of a transition to a renewable energy system. That’s what Heinberg and Fridley are offering.
Sustainability – The Simpler Way perspective.
Many groups and movements are now working for a transition to more local, small scale, self sufficient and communal ways. I argue that change must be more radical than most people in these movements realize.
From Livelihoods to Deadlihoods
In India, economic development and modernity have transformed livelihoods into deadlihoods, wiping out millennia-old livelihoods that were ways of life with no sharp division between work and leisure, and replacing them with dreary assembly line jobs.
This #ProgrExit Starts with your Longing
So, shine on you crazy Transitioners, and Changemakers of all Hues and Persuasions. Shine harder than you ever shone before…
Outside the Hall of Mirrors
The outcome of last week’s vote concerning Britain’s membership in the European Union has set off anguished cries and handwaving across much of the internet and the mass media.
The Breakdown of Nations
I suppose I have no option but to write about Brexit, adding my own small voice to the torrent of verbiage that’s already been devoted to the current extraordinary events.
Into the Ruins: Review
Those who enjoy fiction set in the deindustrial future should check out Into the Ruins.
A Higher Calling for Higher Education
We need a new conception of human progress that recognizes the interdependence of the economic, social, political, and environmental spheres.
Breaking the System: A Review of Surviving the Future
The three-century-long reign of the market economy is nearing its end whether we like it or not, wrote late British economist David Fleming in Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy.
