Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Localized efforts have sprouted from the ground up in Santa Cruz, Cotati, Sebastopol, San Francisco and many other towns worldwide, where residents and neighbors are putting their heads together and collaborating on ways to relocalize themselves, bolster self-sufficiency and build the resilience that communities will need to absorb the shock of peak oil.
Iraq: The final countdown
Kurdistan brands Iraq oil contracts ‘unconstitutional’
7 Blasts Around Baghdad Kill at Least 24
Rush for ‘easiest oil in the world’
The War Over Waxman-Markey
The War Against the ‘War on Drugs’
Opposition to the food safety bills
From the Ashes of ’69, a River Reborn (Ohio’s Cuyahoga – the “burning river”)
Destroying Levees in a State Usually Clamoring for Them
Since March 2008, Deconstructing Dinner has featured The Local Grain Revolution – a series tracking the evolution of Canada’s first community supported agriculture (CSA) project for grain.
Growth can take as many constructive paths as destructive ones. A shorter work week, less private and more public consumption in health, education, pensions and infrastructure, more economic equality can be part of growth and no-growth paths alike. Stopping growth will require at least as radical a change as channeling it in the right direction. Channeling it may well be the more constructive choice.
High Speed
UK air passenger numbers slump as recession bites
Lord Adonis sees demise of short flights
Collapse Dynamics: Phase transitions in complex social systems
How will knowledge of collapse impact collapse?
Again social evils haunt Britain. Do we still have the spirit to thwart them?
Machiavelli’s insight
Globesity: How climate change and obesity draw from the same roots
Marijuana and Cocaine Should Be Legalized, Says Latin American Drugs Commission
Stand up for rural America while you still can
It is not a lack of climate science that holds back action. It is how we respond to the challenge that the science poses, and that is deeply cultural. It is the values that we bring to bear, what we think is good for us, our religious underpinnings, our view of power and opportunity, of what is possible in the world and Australia’s place in it. (Speech to National Press Club)
California’s hard times driving people back to the ‘Dust Bowl’
Retailers Head for Exits in Detroit
Too Poor to Make the News
China and the developing world are watching the US to see if it is serious about combating climate change. Waxman-Markey, the bill and the legislative process, sends a clear signal: not very.
If industrial civilization perishes, this will most likely happen because the steps needed to save it weren’t considered cost-effective. In this first of a series of posts on the economics of the deindustrial future, the Archdruid explores the economic limits — some real, others conjured into being by mistaken ideologies — that stand in the way of constructive responses to the crisis of our time.
