Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
While the usual reason for adopting a shorter work week is economic, there is also an argument that working less hours reduces consumption and waste and can thus be justified on environmental and health grounds. It’s been recommended by a number of peak oil observers as a way to reduce energy consumption.
Hard Times for Horses
Sport failing to take role in environmental protection
Mr. Whipple Left It Out: Soft Is Rough on Forests
Cardoso, Gaviria, Zedillo Urge Obama to Decriminalize Marijuana
Yellow is the New Green
The Economist special report: Talking rubbish
The truth about recycling
Remembering Deep Ecologist Arne Naess
Peak oil means sooner or later we’ll wake up to a new normal
What is UNsustainability?
I was watching the movie Apollo 13 recently for what was probably the fifth time, consuming it in the manner of a guilty pleasure. I say guilty pleasure because this movie is the paradigmatic technofix movie. And, I have little faith that the mounting challenges of resource depletion and climate change can be addressed by technology alone
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)
As Latvian economy falters, unrest grows
Inside a Tent City
Obama begins getting daily CIA report on economic crisis
Bad economy? Do what you love
Could the bad economy be good for your health?
From Beverly Hills to shoveling manure on a farm
How we’re going to save more
Bartering booms during economic tough times
When asked about the future of, say, nanotubes, or nuclear fusion, or genetic engineering, all technologists and scientists will predict that it’s bright, and continue to say so until the day their grants are canceled, their salaried positions eliminated, and their labs shut down for political and macroeconomic reasons they are ill-equipped to try to comprehend.
[Peak oil prophets] are national heroes for sounding the alarm before anyone believed them. They have often been right, and any solar-powered Mayberrys of 2100 should have statues of them in the town square. But their long-held note of dread is useful only to the extent that it inspires people to do something more practical. The world we create will be, up to a point, whatever we were preparing for, and as we enter the opening years of the crisis, it is time we all take a deep breath and talk about what we realistically expect from the future.
[Within the next three weeks, my forthcoming book, Sacred Demise: Walking The Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization’s Collapse will be released and will be available for purchase at this website and at the Amazon and Barnes & Noble websites. Below is the book’s foreword written by Sarah Anne Edwards, Ph.D. and co-author of Middle Class Lifeboat.
One of the questions the Archdruid fields most often when speaking about peak oil is what investment strategy he recommends. Are you ready for the bad news?
