Door to Door – A selective look at our “system of systems”
Our transportation system is “magnificent, mysterious and maddening,” says the subtitle of Edward Humes’ new book. Open the cover and you’ll encounter more than a little “mayhem” too.
Bart Hawkins Kreps
Overly Simple Energy-Economy Models give Misleading Answers
Does it make a difference if our models of energy and the economy are overly simple?
Monofloral and Manuka Honey: Honey-Hunting the Honeybee to its Demise, With Love
Are monofloral honeys all they’re cracked up to be, or are they yet another empty money-making scheme, exposing vulnerable honeybees to the toxic environments of monocultures?
How Globalization Divides Us: Perspectives on Brexit from a Dual Citizen
Getting out of Europe does nothing to address the real problems in UK society—or the world.
Make America Poopable Again: The Great Toilet Debate That Wasn’t
The transgender restroom debate is a red herring, whose solution lies in the question affecting all of us: "What do we do with our effluents as industrial civilization collapses?"
Energy Limits: Why We See Rising Wealth Disparity and Low Prices
My analysis has as its premise that the economy behaves like other physical systems.
How One Urban Activist Community in Bolivia Thrives on ‘Abundance For Everybody’
A group of young Bolivian activists are exploring ways to build a conscious community and local economy in the world’s highest capital city.
The Decline may not be Permacultured, Part 2
In which I suggest why permaculture designers might be their own worst enemy.
Book Review: The Scoop On Poop
Dan Chiras: "The most affluent have become the most effluent." Dr. Pooper: "You humans have big brains, but you’ve got even bigger arseholes."
From Livelihoods to Deadlihoods
In India, economic development and modernity have transformed livelihoods into deadlihoods, wiping out millennia-old livelihoods that were ways of life with no sharp division between work and leisure, and replacing them with dreary assembly line jobs.
More than One Way to Fall off a Cliff
The Energy Cliff is a key concept in ecological economics. Should we understand this Cliff as both a mathematical ratio and a historical reality?
Into the Ruins: Review
Those who enjoy fiction set in the deindustrial future should check out Into the Ruins.
