A Camp Amid the Ruins

By John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report

Well, the Fates were apparently listening last week. As I write this, stock markets around the world are lurching through what might just be the opening moves of the Crash of 2015...

Review: The Great Transition – The End of Growth?

By Nafeez Ahmed, Degrowth.de

We are on the verge of a major tipping point in the way civilization works.

Panarchy: Implications For Economic & Social Policy

By Roger Boyd, Humanity's Test

Panarchy is a concept that recognizes the cycle of growth, collapse and renewal inherent in complex systems. What can this concept tell us about human society's cycles?

Dark Age America: Involuntary Simplicity

By John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report

The political transformations that have occupied the last four posts in this sequence can also be traced in detail in the economic sphere.

Bright Were The Halls Then

By John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report

Arnold Toynbee, whose magisterial writings on history have been a recurring source of inspiration for this blog, has pointed out an intriguing difference between the way civilizations rise and the way they fall.

Transcending Collapse

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.