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I just dropped in to see what condition my Transition was in: part 2 – context

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British and American cultures are often thought of as mirror images of one another…The UK is a small country, and, as Hopkins points out, there is no room to “run and hide.” In contrast, vast sections of the US are virtually empty….We have different gun cultures…We will need to explore this important cultural difference in detail, in order to understand the phenomenal rise in popularity of the American “survivalist” movement, and TI’s-UK’s (culturally based?) aversion to it.

Renewable energy is major source of carbon reduction in Germany: a response to the ‘Spiegel’ article

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The magazine ‘Spiegel’ just published a very misleading article about renewable energy in Germany and it’s contribution to carbon emissions reduction, which was quoted on Energy Bulletin. (Response from the speaker of the Energy Group of the German Green Party),

Social collapse best practices

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If there is one thing that I would like to claim as my own, it is the comparative theory of superpower collapse. For now, it remains just a theory, although it is currently being quite thoroughly tested. The theory states that the United States and the Soviet Union will have collapsed for the same reasons, namely: a severe and chronic shortfall in the production of crude oil (that magic addictive elixir of industrial economies), a severe and worsening foreign trade deficit, a runaway military budget, and ballooning foreign debt. I call this particular list of ingredients “The Superpower Collapse Soup.”

When Technology Fails (book review)

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Rarely in the specialized milieu of industrial civilization does one encounter a Renaissance man or woman-someone who is well-versed in a wide spectrum of disciplines and who can expound upon them in writing that is both articulate and engaging. So when I discovered Mat Stein’s phenomenal When Technology Fails: A Manual For Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving The Long Emergency…