Retrotopia: A Cab Ride in Toledo
Just past the trees, where I’d expected to see cabs waiting for passengers in a cloud of exhaust, horses stood placidly in front of brightly colored—buggies? Carriages?
John Michael Greer
Connecting over Soil
Most people know that there’s a huge wealth gap between the industrialized and so-called ‘developing’ worlds. But there’s another gap, one that’s rarely discussed in the media, or even by NGOs. It involves changing attitudes to farming, to the land and the soil.
Retrotopia: The View from a Moving Window
From the window beside me, the Steubenville station looked like a scene out of an old Bogart vid.
Peak Oil Ass-Backwards: Peak Oil, Meet Fractional-Reserve Banking
The convention says that the supply constraints of peak oil lead to an increase in oil prices. But when you factor in fractional-reserve banking, does this not instead imply a decrease in prices?
Deflationary Collapse Ahead?
Both the stock market and oil prices have been plunging. Is this “just another cycle,” or is it something much worse? I think it is something much worse.
Retrotopia: Dawn Train from Pittsburgh
This is the first of a series of posts using the tools of narrative fiction to explore an alternative shape for the future. A hint to readers who haven’t been with The Archdruid Report for long: don’t expect all your questions to be answered right away.
Review: After Progress, Twilight’s Last Gleaming, and The Fires of Shalsha
Three more offerings from the incessantly fertile mind of John Michael Greer.
The Last Refuge of the Incompetent
The science fiction author Isaac Asimov used to say that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Sailors and Solomon Islanders: Working together to take on Climate Change
After two weeks of workshops and meetings, this group had come up with their Climate Change Adaptation Plan for the village.
Moral Discomfort, Privilege, and the Politics of Air-Conditioning
As I learned in graduate-school, the legitimate fear of change and the unknown expressed in each case is, more significantly, working at the same time to protect some form of unacknowledged and unseen privilege.
The War Against Change
The first step in making change is imagining change, and the first step in imagining change is recognizing that “more of the same” isn’t going to cut it.
8 Reasons to turn your lawn into a farm and help change the world
Yardfarmers is a new reality TV/documentary series hybrid for release in Spring 2017 that has the potential to shift how many see their backyards and food.
