“The Necessary Alternative to Growth is Degrowth”
In Europe, “degrowth” is actually a movement, while in the US it is barely mentionable in polite society. To question “growth” would be the death knell for any serious politician.
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The Medicinal Forest Garden Handbook – book review
I so often tell others that the reason I grow food is because I love eating. But let us not lost sight of the fact that ‘food is medicine and medicine is food’. We can brings plants together and manage them in a forest garden, to provide for ourselves, our families, communities and customers.
Review of Love in the Ruins (Short Story and Poetry Collection Edited by John Michael Greer)
Perhaps the most striking feature of this anthology of stories and verse about romance in the deindustrial future is its rich assortment of tones and styles. Some stories are charming, others throb with as much trauma as passion and still others feel as timeless as myths.
Review of Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System
Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System by Ian Angus synthesises findings from cutting edge research in the natural and social sciences to demonstrate how capitalism’s excessive drive for growth, fostered by the rapid burning of fossil fuels for economic gains, has driven the earth to the brink of disaster.
Review: Lifeline by Catherine McGuire
McGuire’s book is an adventure that scores on every front, from its tense action scenes, to its finely realized characters and emotionally involving drama, to its richly rendered settings, to the intriguing irony of its double-entendre title.
Two Important New Books
The Carbon Farming Solution: A Global Toolkit of Perennial Crops and Regenerative Agriculture Practices for Climate Mitigation and Food Security and Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life.
The Wild Edge Of Sorrow: A Book Review By Carolyn Baker
Why should we consent to an apprenticeship with sorrow and read this instruction manual for doing so? From my perspective, the answer is quite simple: Unacknowledged and unexpressed grief is the most oppressive and agonizing burden that humans are carrying at this moment in history.
Review: Afterburn by Richard Heinberg
Heinberg, who has few peers in the art of distilling complex messages down to simple, easily understandable take-aways, gives this summation of our fossil fuel predicament: “it’s all about energy; renewables are the future; growth is over.”
Framespotting: Book review
What do climate change, sports teams and your family’s achievements have in common?
Review: Don’t Even Think About It by George Marshall
Unlike most books on the subject, which try to convince people using science, Don’t Even Think About It examines why the science doesn’t convince people.
Review: Star’s Reach, Not the Future We Ordered, and Decline and Fall
It’s to John Michael Greer’s immense credit that his work examines aspects of our collective cultural life few others dare touch–and does so more deeply than anyone else’s work does.
Review: A History of the Future by James Kunstler
In the category of thrilling fiction about our post-industrial future, James Howard Kunstler’s World Made By Hand novels have no equal.
