Other Options to Reduce Fossil Fuel Use in Heating Season
In this post I look at several higher-cost ways to modify your residence to reduce fossil fuel use during heating season.
Claire Schosser
Mapping the Emerging Post-Capitalist Paradigm and its Main Thinkers
We do not live in an era of change, but in a change of eras
Selective Anti-Modernism and the Shape of Society
What happens to our broader attitudes of tolerance if we begin to identify primarily with local communities? How do we imagine a culture of both freedom and restraint?
Retrotopia: Economics by Other Means
Our narrator catches a train for the agricultural hinterlands of the Lakeland Republic, and learns some of the reasons why the Republic is so hard to invade.
COP 21: The Great Climate Cop-out
On Monday 30th November, the 21st annual Conference of Parties – that grand international climate conference where world leaders gather to debate how best to kick the can that bit further down the road kicked off.
The Shadows of the Cave
Some of us prefer sun and wind and depth and color to the play of shadows on the walls of the cave.
Why “Supply and Demand” doesn’t Work for Oil
A gradual switch to higher-cost energy products, in a sense, works in the opposite direction to a switch from beef to chicken.
It’s Too Late to “Save” the Climate, But Not Too Late to Save Ourselves
Yet another United Nations climate confab is about to commence, this time in Paris, France, where the tragic backdrop of terrorism, war, and a growing immigration crisis now grips the country.
A Review of Books 2 and 3 in the After Oil Science Fiction Anthology Series
This year saw the publication of not one, but two, more worthy additions to the After Oil science fiction anthology series.
Sending Them a Message
If we want to “send a message to those who hate us,” here’s a new one: Come to our homes, share our food, allow us to wash your feet after your long journey.
Keeping warm with minimal heating: small-scale solutions
I discuss some of the ways you can add the equivalent of an extra layer of clothes to your residence.
The Heresy of Intellectual Choice
The heresy of technological choice is a door.
