By Margarita Mediavilla, Resilience.org
From my point of view --which comes from systems dynamics and environmentalism rather than from feminism-- one of the tools that can best help feminist economics articulate a coherent discourse is the pattern of collapse.
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
A new paper by a long-time sustainability academic and consultant says that minor tweaks in our current system won't help us. We are likely headed for societal collapse and need a radical new way of thinking about the future. The first necessary casualty is hope--hope that we can keep things largely the way they are.
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
Our actions have planet-wide consequences that we don't fully understand.
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
So those who claim that Malthusian limits don’t apply to humans are effectively assigning our species the status of permanent evolutionary winners.
By Erik Lindberg, Transition Milwaukee
These images represent not only what I lived as a child, they were additionally pounded into the crevices of my being by years simply of living in America, the land of high expectations...
By Gail Tverberg, ourfiniteworld.com
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.
By Ugo Bardi, Resource Crisis
A Seneca shaped production curve would considerably reduce the amount of fossil carbon that can be burned in the future.
By Frank Kaminski, Mud City Press
Michael Ruppert's last book, first starring film role and ascendancy to the national stage in 2009
By Andy Russell, Autonomy Acres
So even though post apocalyptic stories are my favorite ones to read and watch, it is the story of the Tao and a life lived in accordance with nature that I want to play a role in.
By John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report
There is a lethal mismatch between the realities of power in an age of decline, and the institutional frameworks inherited from a previous age of ascent
By Eric Garza, HowEricLives.com
I predict the lineages of people alive 1,000 years from now will count among their ancestors people who transcended today’s collapse mythology and got to the real work of self and community development, inner work and adaptation.
By Gail Tverberg, ourfiniteworld.com
At the Age of Limits Conference, I gave a talk called Converging Crises, talking about the crises facing us as we reach energy limits. In this post, I discuss some highlights from a fairly long talk.