Thanks, Bill.
I didn’t read Overshoot until around 1999; when I did, it made an enormous impression. My book The Party’s Over owed a great deal to it
Society
Resilience Roundup – Feb 6
Graph of the Day: Collapse of US shale oil industry
As Night Closes In
I was saddened to learn a few days ago, via a phone call from a fellow author, that William R. Catton Jr. died early last month, just short of his 89th birthday.
Utopians Are Ruining Everything
Utopianism has, rightly, acquired an unsavory reputation.
Forty Years of Longo Maï
Communities, these days, are arguably less likely to break up than nuclear families.
Challenging the dominant culture’s insidious “Screenism”
"Screenism" — it is pervasive except among the very, very young, the very old, and the nature-dwelling primitive. It began with television over one half century ago, for those who had time for hours of passive entertainment. It was also for the electronically babysat, and still is. Except, now hand-held mobile telephones, "tablets," laptop and desktop computers are "essential," and billions of the most active people on the planet depend on them as well as upon digital technology in general.
The Age of Consequences
This is a book about questions and answers.
From #Takethesquare to São Paulo’s #FreeYourPark
The occupation of Augusta Park in the Brazilian city of São Paulo…opens a new breakthrough in the global cycle of occupations: the proposal of a commons-oriented park.
How One Neighborhood in Seoul Sparked a Movement of Urban Villages
What began as a childcare coop in Seoul, South Korea has grown into a cooperative, urban village and sparked a national movement of urban villages.
Moving from gridlock to dialogue
All our great ideas about climate change, peak oil, re-localization, etc. are worthless if we can’t communicate with other people. It’s easy to get into gridlock and name-calling even with people who should be our allies.
The One Way Forward
As the conventional wisdom of flat-earth cornucopians crashes and burns around us, it’s time for some real heresy.
Where Do the Transition Environmental Movement and The Social Justice Movement Intersect?
Resource depletion and climate change effects various demographic groups in vastly different ways.
