Maude Barlow

The bottleneck century

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In a new book, Bottleneck: Humanity’s Impending Impasse, William Catton, Jr. says human society is now on an unstoppable trajectory for a significant die-off. Catton, author of the well-known classic of human ecology, Overshoot, expects that by 2100 the world population will be smaller, perhaps much smaller, than it is today. We are in what he calls “the bottleneck century.”

Solutions & sustainability – Jan 29

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-Oil Is Too Important To Burn In Cars
-Beyond rhetoric
-three paths to a low-car city
-Saving Sub-Sahara Africa a Drip at a Time
-How Can Haiti Be Sustainable?
-Straw Homes That Would Have Foiled the Wolf

Vision for Sustainability, Resiliency by Post Carbon Institute

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What will we do post growth, post cheap energy, post resource abundance and post climate change? The Post Carbon Institute (PCI) convened its first meeting of Fellows this weekend in Berkeley to address these concerns. Many there and elsewhere have argued that these transformational changes are already becoming evident.

387 ppm and Rising: A Plea for Greater Urgency in Developing Post-Carbon Living Arrangements

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The latest climate research suggests that we are much closer to global ecological collapse than previously thought. These alarming findings, coupled with the inevitable/imminent economic collapse, suggest that a much greater urgency is needed in transitioning to new living arrangements. So let’s do it. With a smile.