Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
With superb insight, wisdom and erudition—one is almost tempted to say omniscience—Alexis Zeigler’s Culture Change charts an ambitious course for the future of our civilization. The book calls for a revolution to bring about what Zeigler terms a “conscious culture” capable of responding intelligently to our ecological crisis. (Full book title: Culture Change: Civil Liberty, Peak Oil, and the End of Empire)
Depression in the East points the way for the rest of the world
As It Falters, Eastern Europe Raises Risks
Japan’s crisis deepens as world stops buying
Home Prices Post Biggest Drop in 21 Years
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Financial Times
Bill Clinton on the Future of Energy
Legalizing cannabis: is the ground shifting?
U.S. Housing Starts Fell to Record Low in January
Sustainability interview: Peter Newman and Timothy Beatley
America’s Top 15 Emptiest Cities
In Maricopa, Ariz., a Paradise Found and Lost
Sonoma Mountain Village: Is Green Suburbia Possible?
Friedman: Start Up the Risk-Takers
E.P.A. Expected to Regulate Carbon Dioxide
National Guard goes green to conserve energy, cost
White House Dismisses Mileage-Based Tax
First Lady at Agriculture Department
The Abyss Stares Back
Owners must be weaned off the house-price drug
Bears in the finance-media zoo
A weekly round-up from a UK perspective.
Family of 5 weathers economy with 7 housemates
Can I Lose My Car Without Losing My Home?
Neighbors Helping Neighbors—to Break Into Vacant Houses
Treating the Blues Could Save the Planet
Meet the doomsayers of our time
Buckminster Fuller’s Critical Path
Growth (some conservatives re-thinking growth)
Artists’ creative use of vacant shops brings life to desolate high streets
Facing the Zoning Monster
Growth pattern crippled Phoenix
KunstlerCast #51: Seaside Revisited
‘Eat The Suburbs’: a great short film on permablitzing
Film Review: “Establishing a Food Forest”
The challenges of being a Jewish farmer
Agriburbia idea grows in residential subdivisions
Prepare for the Best
Weekly round up from a UK perspective.
