Panarchy: Implications For Economic & Social Policy
Panarchy is a concept that recognizes the cycle of growth, collapse and renewal inherent in complex systems. What can this concept tell us about human society’s cycles?
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Resilience Roundup – Dec 11
A roundup of the news, views and ideas from the main stream press and the blogosphere.
Dark Age America: The Sharp Edge of the Shell
The denunciation meted out to Bill Nye for bringing basic concepts from ecology into a discussion where they were highly relevant is par for the course these days.
Policing Justice Requires Economic Justice
One way to make the apathy of privileged whites irrelevant is to build institutions that guarantee material economic justice.
Knowing what ‘just enough’ is
One of the most extraordinary books I have read in recent years is Just Enough: lessons in living green from traditional Japan by Azby Brown.
7 Things You Should Know About Permaculture
What is permaculture? For those of you who’ve only heard of the term in passing, and ever for you seasoned “permies” who struggle to explain this exciting (and sometimes life-changing) idea to others, here’s the gist in 7 points.
Star Spangled Collapse
Greer’s new novel Twilight’s Last Gleaming is set about a decade in the future in a world much like today’s, but with more expensive oil and a more advanced rival for global supremacy — China.
Permaculture, a Vision of the Post-Oil World
More than an agricultural technology, permaculture is a vision of the societies of tomorrow, ours, which will be confronted with the evolution of energy and climate systems.
Resilience Roundup – Dec 5
A roundup of the news, views and ideas from the main stream press and the blogosphere.
The Role of Cities in Moving Toward a Sustainable Economy
The story of a hippy flower-child who leveraged big economic decisions that ushered in renewable energy and sensible land-use for Austin and the State of Texas.
Dark Age America: The Fragmentation of Technology
It was probably inevitable that last week’s discussion of the way that contemporary science is offering itself up as a sacrifice on the altar of corporate greed and institutional arrogance would field me a flurry of responses that insisted that I must hate science.
Anywhere But Here: Casino Capitalism in Las Vegas
After the crash in 2008, southern Nevada became the foreclosure and unemployment capital of the nation.
